Really, how potent the cannabis is makes a difference. 1/4 lb of fan leaves is enough for me for one night. 1/2 gram of ‘not your father’s merrywanna’ ditto. The weight of the carrier material is irrelevant. You really can’t take the weight of mexicrap that’s being consumed and extrapolate it to domestically produced.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/cooley-says-pot-dispensaries-will-be-prosecuted.html

When are these state officials going to learn that they cannot enforce federal law? Time for a new DA that is concerned about real crimes instead of moral ones.

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The federal government won’t budge until it becomes obvious all is lost, but even they will crack when they see large parts of the country in open defiance.

This is why a larger and more powerful federal government = less freedom. If the system was working properly, there would be states that legalize MJ, and other states that don’t. Nobody wants to be ruled by 535 little kings 3000 miles away who YOU and nobody else you know would have voted for under any circumstances.

Under (properly functioning) federalism, you can always move to another state. So if you consider MJ very important and want to live in a state that permits it, go ahead and move and feel free to light up. If you are terrified of MJ and want to protect your kids from the Devil’s weed, you can move to some county in Alabama where you’ll get a call one day from the police saying they’ve incarcerated your children for MJ possession and you’ll be seeing them again in a couple of years.

It’s all up to you!

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Even in my heyday I never smoked that much. And cannabis consumers skew younger, with most under 40. How many of them do you think can afford $7000 a year for their pleasure?

Something’s wrong here. If the production numbers are correct, then we have far more stoners than 32M. And if the consumer numbers are correct, then production numbers are way too high. I believe the number of consumers is closer to 50M, and the same for production numbers – which means the average stoner consumes one pound per year.

But in the final analysis, we really have no clue. The only way to determine our consumption levels is to repeal prohibition and replace it with a regulated market to control sales and distribution, very similar to what we now have for alcohol and tobacco.

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Mr. Emery is a true patriot and he has giant brass huevos.

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Buy American!

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There were a couple of silly things in the article (like for instance the idea you can set up a commercially viable grow for $100 worth of materials, but on the whole the article was great, an effective rebuttal to the last weak arguments of the border-guarding feds who still think associating and guilting pot smokers with Mexican violence is a winner. (It’s not like we still don’t remember equally vacuous and unconvincing attempts after 9/11 to associate pot smoking with ‘terrorists’).

I didn’t leave a comment….most of my thoughts were already somewhere in the hundreds of comments already, but I would have underscored the ironic nature of this Freakinomics real-world-unanticipated-consequences-of-stuff aspect of this article: “This is GOOD NEWS!” or “What do you see that’s wrong with this? Don’t we all want to put a bite into the crime of the Mexican Mafia”? Well, don’t we???

And yes, it’s all about “overgrowing the government” and pushing the laws or their enforcement or lack thereof towards their next “tipping point”. I’ve met Mr. Emery and though I agree with the idea he’s a buffoon, he’s a buffoon in the way that Abbie Hoffman or Michael Moore (or even Gandhi) is a buffoon. An effective showman, someone who knows how to get and milk publicity and spread the message effectively.

This story was also picked up on the daily crime news blog/list of the Criminal Justice Journalists.

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2 lbs @ $9000 a lb from a $100 investment. Where does the line form?

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Shhh, duncan. All those poor people out there might get ideas and flood the market.

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