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1/16 of an ounce gets me through a whole month usually. So I don't even smoke an ounce in a year.
Marijuana is finally on the ballot!
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Alteredmindeath
Wasteland Survivor
in the 70's you could get a lid for 10 bucks. During the vietnam war in vietnam little kids sold bags of 20 joints for 2 american dollars.
Chanakya
Orphaned Brother
During the 21st century, bags of 20 joints are still sold for 2 American dollars, in India. But I don't indulge in smoking.
Chanakya
Orphaned Brother
The relationship between supply and demand is pretty much at equilibrium, hence it's very cheap if you know where to look. Moreover plenty of villagers grow pot just outside the suburbs, not to mention stuff transported from the Himalayas, where it grows in abundance.
Saparmurat_Niyazov
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I disapprove of the health care bill because of the individual mandate (where a citizen is required by law to buy insurance - or pay a tax penalty) and the fact that insurance premiums will not decrease and likely increase. As a working class citizen, I can not afford this.
Anyway, I digress, this is the legalization thread.
:Smokin::Smokin::Smokin::Smokin:
Marijuana possession in some amount (I don't care cuz I don't smoke it) is decriminalized in MA...you just get fined for having more than the allowed amount or something.
This also the case (suprisingly) in Nebraska.
Woa, now how does that work ? I have only had insurance for jobs I have had that supply it 100%... they do still exist and SHOULD. Other places I have worked needed to take $125 a week (family plan) out of my check so I declined, no friggin insurance company is going to get over one day of my take home pay a week... + what ever the companys contribution was. (My daughter was covered under her mothers plan) I really have only had health insurance for 3 working seasons of my life, twenty + years of self employment also did not allow spare cash to support the insurance, drug and medical wealth machine.
Speaking of drugs an ounce of Columbian Gold was $40 in the mid 70's and lasted me about a week... thus why Im still a figure of health... LOL. I basically quit when it skyrocketed shortly there after, only partaking an occasional few hits with friends who still dropped the coin or grew their own, which at times was given large bags of mostly shake... a shameless freeloader
Saparmurat_Niyazov
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Do you realize how seldom employers supply health insurance to their staff without requiring the employees to pay premiums? Most employers charge their staff insurance premiums, the only exceptions being executive level, union, and government employers, and those jobs are hard to get. I don't have the credentials (yet, working slowly but surely on a BS) to land a job that has such a high-quality benefit package.
Again, we're sliding off topic. As for the OZ, that certainly is more than enough weed for one person to consume. You can really only get so high, and after a couple of joints, you're just wasting it.
Again, we're sliding off topic. As for the OZ, that certainly is more than enough weed for one person to consume. You can really only get so high, and after a couple of joints, you're just wasting it.
Wont get an arguement from me. It was only a couple of years, life was simple, weed was cheap I spent little on beer and bars and worked on a farm mostly alone. Had all day to twist them up and sweat them out, joints are a blatent waste anyhow but it mattered less at those prices. I knew I had a problem when a dry period came through and I felt fucked up.....
I don't care about debating that stuff, mine is a purely mathematical argument with no conjecture or supposition.
Also, I'm in favor of legalizing that shit and taxing it, for the record.
skeptik
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WAIF: It's 13% of the total amount of people, not the total amount of people who opposed.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/i...er&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning+Bell
39% favored the bill
43% thought it was too liberal
13% thought it wasn't liberal enough
5% had no opinion
(Yes, that's not 100%, but if you understand how polls work you'll understand why polls aren't always 100%)
Also keep in mind it's one example from one poll, yet it still demonstrates that the bill is not nearly as unpopular nationwide as many would claim, nor for the reasons that they claim. The idea of adding those in favor and those who want a more liberal bill together is to suggest that the opposition to the bill for its excessive liberalism is not as great as some suggest, and that a liberal, if pressed, is more likely to vote for the bill even though he feels it should be stronger because it's more liberal than what we already have and could be a stepping stone to a more liberal health care system in the future. The general notion that those who mention the bill's unpopularity attempt to convey is that most of the nation thinks the country is going in too liberal a direction, but if %13 percent think a supposedly liberal bill isn't liberal enough (while 39% think it's the baby bear's porridge), obviously this nation isn't as conservative as some would contend.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/i...er&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning+Bell
39% favored the bill
43% thought it was too liberal
13% thought it wasn't liberal enough
5% had no opinion
(Yes, that's not 100%, but if you understand how polls work you'll understand why polls aren't always 100%)
Also keep in mind it's one example from one poll, yet it still demonstrates that the bill is not nearly as unpopular nationwide as many would claim, nor for the reasons that they claim. The idea of adding those in favor and those who want a more liberal bill together is to suggest that the opposition to the bill for its excessive liberalism is not as great as some suggest, and that a liberal, if pressed, is more likely to vote for the bill even though he feels it should be stronger because it's more liberal than what we already have and could be a stepping stone to a more liberal health care system in the future. The general notion that those who mention the bill's unpopularity attempt to convey is that most of the nation thinks the country is going in too liberal a direction, but if %13 percent think a supposedly liberal bill isn't liberal enough (while 39% think it's the baby bear's porridge), obviously this nation isn't as conservative as some would contend.
Enemy242
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I don't smoke (I don't have the money to buy it nor do I have the money to pay for all the food I'd probably eat haha) but this is definitely a step forward. People are going to smoke anyway and it'd take something away from the drug dealers and give more money to the state so I'm all for it. People being scared about more driving fatalities and such is so lol though.
A valid reason to complain in my opinion, as I can't possibly afford such a thing either. I think the meaning behind it was a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, the bill was gutted and the husk that is left may do more harm than good.
I still have hopes for major amendments to it.
Anyone find some new articles on marijuana legalization?
mutantllama
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I hope Maine will be next, or soon. I could also see it passing, considering there's a huge amount of pot smokers in the state.
Um, actually, that is 100.
But I see, now. The bit you posted was poorly worded, as it did say "13% of those opposed."
Also, once again, I wasn't trying to make any sort of point with regard to the argument, just a math thing.
Mort Divine
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