Thanks to Massachusetts voters passing Question 2 on the ballot in November, possession of an ounce or less of marijuana is decriminalized as of Friday.
Now, getting caught with weed is like getting a parking ticket, or as the Globe puts it, a building code citation. If caught with pot, you’ll have to pay $100 or dispute the citation in court within 21 days.
Sounds like less of a hassle than getting arrested, if nothing else. Anyway, we’d like to declare January 2 Marijuana Possession Day in Massachusetts.
It’s a “token” holiday. Har!.
# 20 Mister Mustard said, “Of course they could find them, if they were really looking.”
You’re funny. They do look, very hard. You must live back East and are clueless of the real size of the wilderness in the West.
#21 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>You’re funny.
No, YOU’RE funny, P-RAM. Do you call having seven drug-enforcement agents available to police the 20 million acres of federal forests in California “looking very hard”? That’s 0.00000035 agents per acre.
Why should they bother? To prevent a bunch of stoners from getting high?
If you think the government can’t mobilize the resources to collect on the amount of tax revenue (for comparison, sales of hard liquor alone [no beer, no wine, no spritzers, no hard cider] were about $25,000,000,000.00 in 2007), then you’re beyond funny. You’re hilarious.
# 22 Mister Mustard said, “No, YOU’RE funny, P-RAM. Do you call having seven drug-enforcement agents available to police the 20 million acres of federal forests in California “looking very hard”?”
You’re ignorant, as usual. Fed agents are a TINY fraction of the law enforcement personnel who work on finding the farms.
Where do you live?
#23 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>You’re ignorant, as usual. Fed agents are a
>>TINY fraction of the law enforcement
>>personnel who work on finding the farms.
Someone is ignornant here, RAMBO, but I’m afraid it’s not me. Who else ya’ll got looking fer them pot farmers on federal land? Roscoe P. Coltrane? Erik Estrada and the boys from CHIP? Agent 99? Rogue vigilantes?
As to where I live, that would be my business. I’ve lived a number of places, including the west coast, the east coast, and the midwest. So I think I have a general idea of how much space there is.
Dave’s not here.
Its pretty easy to find bulk wholesalers of MJ. Just take an ATV out on any dirt road and drive around until you run into skinny guys with guns. You can smile and wave, or stop and negotiate.
Course in CA, the big thing now is remote controlled observation and people are around only quickly to water and harvest. Lose a crop===grow another one.
Silly Hoomans.
Paddy, Mustard is right because if MJ is legalized and taxed, most consumers would switch to the legal source and pay the taxes, if not just for the convenience. Growing MJ would no longer be illegal (like tobacco), just unregistered sales. Huge profits for growers would dwindle as the market quickly saturated. Of course there would be illegal weed sales but on the scale and price of cigarettes IMO.
Cig tax revenue in 2005: 20 Billion.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/17170991/
I am a firm believer that pot should be legalised for medicinal use and dispensed by precription only.
I am full set against pot as a recreational drug. Just as I am against all drugs used for recreation.
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#29–Cursor==thats just great and exactly what you should do.
Now: what justifies you turning your own personal preference into a LAW that puts other people into jail for violating.
Compare and contrast with what (should have been) was learned regarding prohibition.
What of living a life free of infringing authoritarian restrictions?
# 27 JimR said, “Paddy, Mustard is right because if MJ is legalized and taxed, most consumers would switch to the legal source and pay the taxes,”
Most aren’t going to buy crap from 7-11. It’s too cheap to buy high quality stuff.
#31 – Paddy-RAMBO
I guess that’s youre way of saying “woops, my bad”, huh?
Re #31, Paddy: “Most aren’t going to buy crap from 7-11. It’s too cheap to buy high quality stuff.”
So go to one of the 20,000-50,000 Toke Shop (TM) locations that will materialize and buy quality.
Face it Paddy… time to either shit or get off the pot.
# 33 JimR said, “So go to one of the 20,000-50,000 Toke Shop (TM) locations that will materialize and buy quality.”
Why? It’s available on any street corner & vending machines.
#34 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Why? It’s available on any street corner &
>>vending machines.
That’s pretty lame, even for you. Why don’t you just admit you were wrong?
I don’t know if this is a good thing. I smoked pot as a kid in Ottawa, Canada and I still partake, from time to time. I wasn’t the most discrete, but I never really had to be. The cops who caught me felt that the laws were too draconian to enforce. They knew I was breaking the law and thought I was a dumbass, but they didn’t want to get me into any serious trouble for it. As long as I stayed out of the way, they were pretty much Ok with what I was doing. I can see a lot of people getting a lot of fines.
I think the best idea is to legalize pot for anyone 19 or over. Fines for those underage.
I was able to function fully and now live a fairly successful life. I have my own place, I’m engaged, and I’ve moved into a managerial/executive position at my work. I’m a pretty driven guy.
A lot of my friends weren’t able to do that and pot really did have a pretty negative effect on them. ‘A’ students lost all their drive and ended up in dead-end jobs. Their relationships with their families suffered because, I believe, that their relationship with pot was actually addictive.
19 or older would help ensure that informed adults could choose to use this drug. I think at that age, you’d have the resolve to abstain if you felt it was affecting you negatively.
Funny that those who against recreational use of drugs are fine with alcohol and coffee consumption. I have never heard a reasonable argument as to why one is illegal and the others ain’t. Guess there’s too many folks making money out of pots contraband status.
Is that an ounce of the good weed ?
It’s about time! I’m not a user in any sense of the word but our prisons and jails are bursting now. Too many good people in jail for smoking pot. Could this be the start of the return to sanity?
Legalized pot would take all the fun out of playing Dealer McDope. Thank god they’re only decriminalizing it.