Some inaccuracies have crept in to your dialogue.
- Willow bark is not illegal for me or anybody to chew or make a tea from for their own medicinal purposes. Its even available in dried or extract form as an herb online. It is not sold for use as a medicine, the commercial sellers sell it as a supplement.
- It is perfectly legal to grow, dry and smoke home grown tobacco. Don't sell it without going through regulatory maze
- It's perfectly legal to grow or buy wine grapes and make wine. Also legal to make beer -- high gravity beer is pretty strong, just saying beer and wine are forms of alcoholic beverages. Both used to be outlawed under prohibition but within limits, they are legal to make at home. Don't sell it without a permit.
- Distilling alcohol for drinking is still illegal although fuel alcohol permits are easy to get, just don't sell it. For once, you are correct.
My point is that errors in your claims make you seem a bit unreliable as a source of information. Especially when you claim to be such an expert. I wouldn't dismiss what you say about MJ rescheduling but will cross-check and look for a more consistently reliable source.
you are right, perhaps i figured you would understand the correlation and see the humor in it. i am, by the way, a notorious smart ass. i like to laugh and fuck around, it's better than dealing with pain and an inevitable end. so, to clarify, i'll explain my examples...
willow bark isn't illegal. but you can't make aspirin and sell it without fda approval.
as far as i know, it is illegal to grow tobacco privately in sc. you must have a license. not only my family (on the farm i grew up on) taught this, but it was well known in our county, and all surrounding. i don't feel like looking it up, but i've only ever seen on farm in my area with tobacco, and they DID have a license. this means you are probably right, or that it is legal some places but not necessarily others...
my family still has a grape vine brought back from italy at the end of wwII. we also grow scupernomes and muscadines. there was a gallon limit when i was young, don't remember what, but homemade wine and beer are all over here in fall/winter. you can't make whiskey, at all. illegal. no stills permitted whatsoever. so no selling, no whiskey legal. get caught with a still and no license, and it's prison.
ethanol fuel permits are ethanol fuel permits. you can drink it, but you better not get caught if you are permitted. they do regular inspections...
so if i'm unreliable, oh well, i guess that's what google was invented for. however, the fda and pharma aspect is a very real threat. try to make and market percoset if you don't believe me. i'm not out to 'bring you around' to my way of thinking, i only want you and others to think, and find out. grab an x-file, the truth is out there...
