Comments on: Budgetary Marijuana, Part Dude!

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:30:20 +0000

I agree with TGirsch; making your own beer is not easy, and making beer that tastes nearly as good as your favorite brand is harder still. So of course most people buy beer rather than make it themselves. The question is, would they start brewing their own if the price of commercially-available beer skyrocketed to Prohibition levels. I think they would.

By: nk

nk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:24:46 +0000

I might start growing my own tobacco. Like my grandfather did. My mother told me she was rolling his cigarettes.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:03:45 +0000

I get the impression some of the commenters here have never actually made their own beer. I can tell you first-hand, it's an awful lot like work. .-= tgirsch´s last blog ..The Health Care Reform Debate =-.

By: ATLien

ATLien — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:58:01 +0000

one plant should be enough for one person. 2 at the most. and the stuff grows…well, like a weed.

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:52:07 +0000

Growing your own takes space and light–lots of light. They can find growers around here by figuring out who’s either using legally or diverting illegally huge rivers of power into one house.

Of course, those are dealers. I don’t know how much power it would take to grow a one- or two-person supply.
.-= Anwyn´s last blog ..“Have You Got Anything Without Spam?” =-.

By: aeronation

aeronation — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:18 +0000

It banks on the fact that most people don’t want the hassle of making their own, whatever it is, be it corn or weed.

Its 100% legal and fairly easy to make your own beer and wine but the vast majority of people still go to the store and buy it rather than make it. You can roll your own cigs but most still buy them as well.

I even recently read of one enterprising guy who’s growing his own tobacco to evade the taxes on cigs. 100% legal but I bet you can count on one hand the number of people doing it…

By: Retro

Retro — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:15:16 +0000

There’s so much more to be gained from legalization than just a few million dollars in tax revenue.

They should also be considering some of the less obvious side benefits like significantly reducing our hugely overburdened court dockets while simultaneously reducing tax-payer funded Public Defense costs.

Plus there’s the extra prison beds that wouldn’t need to be used for these non-violent “criminals”.

There’s also the HUGE (dormant) potential that lies within the hemp industry (non-smokable variety) that the “cotton-barons” have been so successful in keeping subdued for so long.

The bottom line is that regardless of the street-sellers who might continue to sell their products illegally, the potential for ANY new revenue in these drastic times should not be scorned.

By: _Jon

_Jon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:42:02 +0000

Well, it is rather easy to make beer, but most people go buy it. I suspect the same would happen with MJ.

Mostly though, it should be a state decision, not a federal one.

By: smijer

smijer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:20 +0000

Reading myself, I asked myself what happened after prohibition was repealed. The quick & dirty answer seems to be that there is a move to legal commerce whether or not there is a black market infrastructure in place. But it could be more complicated than that…

By: SayUncle » the infrastructure is there

SayUncle » the infrastructure is there — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:50:03 +0000

[...] A criminal enterprise already exists to evade the law. As long as it’s profitable to avoid tax payments, that enterprise will continue even if the product is now legal. [...]