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This is my first time to this site and already I can say how most conjectures I see here are not win able. I also see an ignorance here:
https://www.rollitup.org/legalization-marijuana/251045-war-breaks-out-within-marijuana.html
Sir you are being very ignorant on so many levels. First off, I am a member of the MPP and I don't appreciate how dropping funding to the MPP would have ever of helped your initiative. The MPP has done nothing but fight in Congress legalize and regulate the use of medical marijuana. We also help seniors and many others that just can't afford paying for the marijuana. How does one make a conjecture to that an ounce would cost 500? Have you been to different states and in different dispensaries? I've been in many and I have never seen the cost that high. Where did you get your statistic from? Now, the 300 I can understand your concern sir. That is a matter of state policy that can/will be worked on, The fact that the dispensary is there is the first part of the process.
In the interests of the MPP I don't speak directly on behalf of them, however speak as their representative. The MERC policy doesn't work sir. It doesn't work because of how Washington works and how politics are played. You can't march in with insistence a method that the MPP has tried and failed. We find that the best way is to properly educate the politicians, not to demand.
Medical is the first step of legalization. If we are able to setup dispensaries in every state, it will be the next step to then ask for total legalization. Why not go straight to total legalization like you do? Do you think you have a better shot with dispensaries in every state than non at all? There is a strategy here and it's one geared for regulation.
Look, I understand many of you here think that taxation on marijuana is bullshit since you can grow it yourself. That's fine with me. One can brew a batch of beer in his house and even grow tobacco in a potted plant. When it comes to buying though, I am not a botanist. I have no interest in actually growing plants to smoke them. If I want to get it I will get it at the store and just buy it. There are MANY other people like myself, who in turn, don't give a shit what it is; how it's grown they just want to get it. The availability must be there for those people.
There is a bigger picture here that you are blind to see. You want decriminalization of marijuana? Fine, but you need to regulate it. If you don't than expect to keep seeing violence in Mexico escalate. While you might think that Mexico is not in your interest to help, then the problems will come to America.
The reason why to regulate is not a tax issue as much as it is a humanistic one. Many Mexican police officers are dead and some, their family's with them. These fatalities ranged from be-headings to complete dismemberment. Again, these weren't just the officers, these were wives, sons, mothers, and daughters. Mexican DTOs(drug traffic organizations) have put up the fight and unfortunately it's bad enough that the military is now involved in daily police work. (Source: http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2009/3tri09/sullivaneng.htm)
Unregulated (witch is what you are suggesting) infers that you support such violence. With regulation, you will know where that marijuana comes from and that my friend,is how you shut Mexican DTO that market down. 35.4 billion was estimated that year which accounted for [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]15,500 metric tons of marijuana. That money could have been ours. If you promote no regulation you must be a sadist.
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https://www.rollitup.org/legalization-marijuana/251045-war-breaks-out-within-marijuana.html
Sir you are being very ignorant on so many levels. First off, I am a member of the MPP and I don't appreciate how dropping funding to the MPP would have ever of helped your initiative. The MPP has done nothing but fight in Congress legalize and regulate the use of medical marijuana. We also help seniors and many others that just can't afford paying for the marijuana. How does one make a conjecture to that an ounce would cost 500? Have you been to different states and in different dispensaries? I've been in many and I have never seen the cost that high. Where did you get your statistic from? Now, the 300 I can understand your concern sir. That is a matter of state policy that can/will be worked on, The fact that the dispensary is there is the first part of the process.
In the interests of the MPP I don't speak directly on behalf of them, however speak as their representative. The MERC policy doesn't work sir. It doesn't work because of how Washington works and how politics are played. You can't march in with insistence a method that the MPP has tried and failed. We find that the best way is to properly educate the politicians, not to demand.
Medical is the first step of legalization. If we are able to setup dispensaries in every state, it will be the next step to then ask for total legalization. Why not go straight to total legalization like you do? Do you think you have a better shot with dispensaries in every state than non at all? There is a strategy here and it's one geared for regulation.
Look, I understand many of you here think that taxation on marijuana is bullshit since you can grow it yourself. That's fine with me. One can brew a batch of beer in his house and even grow tobacco in a potted plant. When it comes to buying though, I am not a botanist. I have no interest in actually growing plants to smoke them. If I want to get it I will get it at the store and just buy it. There are MANY other people like myself, who in turn, don't give a shit what it is; how it's grown they just want to get it. The availability must be there for those people.
There is a bigger picture here that you are blind to see. You want decriminalization of marijuana? Fine, but you need to regulate it. If you don't than expect to keep seeing violence in Mexico escalate. While you might think that Mexico is not in your interest to help, then the problems will come to America.
The reason why to regulate is not a tax issue as much as it is a humanistic one. Many Mexican police officers are dead and some, their family's with them. These fatalities ranged from be-headings to complete dismemberment. Again, these weren't just the officers, these were wives, sons, mothers, and daughters. Mexican DTOs(drug traffic organizations) have put up the fight and unfortunately it's bad enough that the military is now involved in daily police work. (Source: http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2009/3tri09/sullivaneng.htm)
Unregulated (witch is what you are suggesting) infers that you support such violence. With regulation, you will know where that marijuana comes from and that my friend,is how you shut Mexican DTO that market down. 35.4 billion was estimated that year which accounted for [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]15,500 metric tons of marijuana. That money could have been ours. If you promote no regulation you must be a sadist.
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