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Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland
Trintech writes "According to MSNBC: 'The city of Oakland, California on Tuesday legalized large-scale marijuana cultivation for medical use and will issue up to four permits for "industrial" cultivation starting next year.
The move by the San Francisco Bay Area city aims to bring medical marijuana cultivation into the open and allow the city to profit by taxing those who grow it.
The resolution passed the city council easily after a nearly four-hour debate that pitted small-scale "garden" growers against advocates of a bigger, industrial system that would become a "Silicon Valley" of pot.' Yes, you read that right. MSNBC just compared computer chip fabrication to pot cultivation."
We all know that inhaling burning plant material creates by-products such as: tar, ash, CO2, carbon monoxide and other gases & carcinogenic elements, because so much time and money has been spent on proving this with tobacco. Nobody ever talks about the strain legalizing it would put on the health care system. Clearly it would contribute to some people getting cancer. No not everyone would just like not all cigarette smokers get cancer, and don't give me that bullshit you read on the inside of the Cypress Hill CD that there has never been a documented death from smoking marijuana.
I do realize that a casual marijuana smoker does smoke far less often than even a light cigarette smoker, but how many strait up potheads are there to the casual 1 gram or less a day smokers? 100 to 1? Your guess is as good as mine, I just think if we are going to be realistic about this issue we should also be genuine with our intent to improve our quality of life.
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Few extended families have not been affected in one way or another by addiction, whether to drugs or alcohol. But I still don't see how the legality or illegality of marijuana is going to affect the rates of addiction.
Pot is already the number 1 cash crop of the state of California. Considering that the Salinas area is considered the "Salad bowl of the Nation" that's saying an awful lot. To keep such an enormous economy underground and off-the-books is just not reasonable.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The right to keep and bear arms is in the Constitution, the right to get drunk or high is not.
God, I hate ignorant fucks who try to 'educate' about drugs.
Just stop talking, you make the rest of us look stupid.
You most certainly can, its not something that happens due to the impracticality of it. You'll die from oxygen deprivation first if you're trying to smoke it. Stop talking out your ass with some bullshit you read on the Internet or your little stone friend told you.
This is ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. Only a completely idiot would make such a statement. The withdrawl symptoms from the physical addiction are rather lax and are far less to deal with than nicotine withdrawl but they are most certainly there. Second, ANY SUBSTANCE can be mental addictive, which is FAR worse than ANY physical addiction.
Please don't talk about pot like you know anything about it, go hit your bong and shut up. Ignorance such as yours won't help get it legalized, it'll just give those against it more fire power to stop it.
Next time you have a thought on the subject, just let it go. We'll all be better off because of it.
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I have misgivings about legalizing pot. Walk down Haight St. in San Francisco and see all the burnout cases. We already have enough of an underclass of drugged-out losers in SF.
The whole "medical marijuana" thing has gotten out of hand. Make it a class III prescription drug (a downgrade from the current class I) and let people with legit prescriptions for it as a painkiller get it at Walgreens and Rite-Aid. Some people really need it, but not many. The "pot club" thing is just silly.
WTF?
Okay, so the bay area is kind a technology hub, but that's about as close as I can get to associating this article with anything to do Slashdotty. Are nerds secret pot smokers or something. WTF does this have to do with science, computers, technology, or even nerdy-politics. Nothing. WTF?
Thirty seconds after California legalized pot (from Craption)
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