Yea, I started to go big SH. Gave the State my money, filled out the lisc. and then got the fuck outta it. For a couple of reasons. One of them being the State regs and how over the top they were (and they kept coming, even after the initial app phase) and the other being an incompatible business partner. Shit happens, doesn't it?
Business partners have a way of not working out, especially when they have no grow experience. So the fuck what. That paints me in a bad light how?
So the fuck what? You were once in the grow store business, but couldn't seem to turn a profit like other grow stores do. Does that make you open to ridicule as well? Or are you a hypocrite about that also?
The alcohol analogy was very, very appropriate. You just don't like it because it makes your idea seem silly. Which it is.
It is YOU that lacks an answer. So you resort to name calling and character assassination. I would call it classic, but it ain't.
It is childish, wee one.
Ah, the greed thing. The heart of the matter with you, eh? How nice it must be to be able to close your eyes to the whole truth so that your contrived truth fits your ideals. In your ridiculous, Marxist, bashing of those seeking to produce a good that others want and then having the audacity to want to make a profit off of it, you are forgetting about one very big part of the equation:
The satisfied customers of dispensaries. You see SH, in the real world, us dispensary folk didn't come in and push anyone out of a market. We didn't force any customers through our doors nor force them to sign us as their caregivers. We didn't prevent anyone from growing their own weed. Your naive world view seems to omit the FACT that people WANT dispensaries. People want someon to grow weed for them and then they are more than happy to pay them for their time and efforts.
Dispensaries arose because people wanted them to. Get it? There was a demand for dispensaries. Not from us greedy fuck disp owners but from our customers. Simple business stuff SH. Supply and demand stuff.
It ain't just greedy a-hole disp owners that want disp around. A lot of med patients and stoners WANT disp around. And they want to give those disp money in exchange for 3.5 months worth of work.
You get that SH? You get the fact that it ain't just the dispensary owners that love dispensaries, but their customers love them. Not everyone can or wants to grow SH. But you have to gloss over that point and jump right into the insults with me - because that reality exposes your legalization idea as being unrealistic, not consistent with people's wants and, well, stupid. Those people LOVE dispensaries and they don't make a dime from them. In fact, the willingly and GLADLY give them their money, knowing full well that disp owners are making a PROFIT off of the sales. Oh, the horror. A profit.
Just like I don't want to be a corn farmer and love the fact that their are people who choose that profession, so I can give those greedy bastards my money for corn. I love it and they love it. Disp owners love it and their customers love it.
Can you not still grow your own weed SH? Precisley what did disp ruin for you? Give me a list instead of silly statements that have no factual backup nor place in reality.
Dispensaries didn't ruin shit. In fact, they have done the opposite. While you hide your grow in your house, dispensaries are out there on the front lines, taking risks you don't take and desensitizing people to weed - undoing the bullshit created by things like Reefer Madness. Guys like me were taking the risk associated with sitting on plant numbers in the thousands, doing our part in the front lines in the WOD. And unlike you, us greedy disp fucks were putting weed on the streets that takes money away from the drug cartels. Disp cut into the Mexican Drug Cartel's business. That's a good thing.
All you did was bash guys like us as being greedy a-holes and hide behind yer mommy's skirt.
Still hanging out behind that skirt I see.
What ruined things were a-holes like Romer.
Blame the right people SH, you look naive when you don't. But if the shoe fits, wear it, eh SH? The politicians fucked this up, not disp owners. Disp owners are just filling a NEED.
Let me tell you how naive and foolish your idea is SH. You see, I live in the real world, not some unrealistic hippy facsimile of it, like you apparently do.
So, lets play your little idea out, shall we?
In our alternate universe your idea is now law. You conveniently skipped over my point that MOST people cannot produce quality weed. That is important SH. On top of that, staring a garden takes a couple of things - space and MONEY. Not every stoner has both of those. Guess those stoners are fucked, eh? No weed for them.
So, now we have Jane/Johnny Stoner who wants to smoke some Sweet Lady Jane. What is s/he to do? According to you, they must grow their own. So, they go out and invest $3000 starting a grow in their house (that is if they want to smoke anything other than shit weed). 2 weeks into flower, their plants die 'cause they don't know wtf they are doing. Now it is going to be 3.5 months before they have anything to smoke because they have to start over.
What a nice guy you are SH. [In the voice of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi] NO WEED FOR YOU !!!!!!!! You should just get it over with and put that in your sig. Just copy and paste this and put it in your sig, as it defines your TRUE feelings about weed supply and who shoudl have access to quality weed:
[In the voice of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi] NO WEED FOR YOU !!!!!!!!
Back to our story. Jane/Johnny doesn't want to wait another 3.5 months to get stoned. On top of that, they don't have any confidence that they will be able to produce a quality crop and would prefer to just put their grow equipment on Craigslist. But, they know somebody who does grow da digity dank. And they want some. So lets say they pick up a QP from this quality grower and the grower made money off of the deal - sold it for more than it cost him to produce and he turned a profit.
Now what? Oh yea, it is time for the, umm, what was it? Oh yes, it is time for the hammer to come down >>hard<< on that cat. Yup, take some dude running a 3kW grow in his house and treat him like Pablo Escobar, eh SH? Real fuggin' sweetheart you are. That would be a great world to live in, huh? Some guy sells a QP and ends up with what, 10 years in the federal pen getting ass raped by a gang banger.
Is that enough of your hard hammer? Some stoner getting thrown in prison for 10 years for selling a little weed? Some sotner moves a lb/month and you think he should be condemned to getting ass raped in prison? Or do you want to ruin people's life more? Is that what you are advocating? Jane/Johnny sucks at growing weed but has no problem paying somebody that does and you want the hammer. Maybe you want to see the guillotine rolled out for this? Is that hard enough for you?
That is what you are advocating, huh? Some friend of stoners you are. You ain't no friend of stoners. You are someone who can't figure out if he is a hippy or the Gestapo. You got this fucked up mystical hippy notion about how Sweet Lady Jane should be immune and removed from a business model, about how if anyone takes the time, money and skill to produce a quality crop that selling it is taboo and the Gestapo part of wanting to bring the hammer down on anyone that tries to sell it, to treat like any other crop or produced good.
I shall call you Sybil (you're old enough to get that one) from now on.
Is that okay Sybil?
Not everyone has the resources to set up a grow op.
Not everyone who attempts to grow weed will keep plants alive until harvest.
Not everyone who brings a crop to harvest can harvest quality bud (MOST people CANNOT)
Not everyone WANTS to set up a grow op in their house.
That is the REAL world. And your idea of legalization flies in the face of reality and thousands of years of human civilization and business.
All those people are fucked, according to you. Completely and totally fucked. And if they are unable to supply themselves and look for other avenues, you want to treat them like the Mexican Drug Cartels and bring that Big Government Hammer of Oppression down on their asses for having a 3kW grow and having the nerve to sell extra weed at a profit.
Like I said, you forgot the sickle, Comrade.
I could play out many, many ways where your idea is ridiculous and OPPRESSIVE, but I'll stop here. For now.
The fact is we have a Federal government that is and has been acting like a National one for decades. This is a State's rights issue, pure and simple and the way to rectify the injustice being done of the prosecution and persecution of stoners is to force our federal goverment back into their place where the Constitution constrains them.
Tell me Sybil, why is it wrong for a weed farmer to want to scale up and make a profit, just as the corn farmer does? And how, exactly, did dispensaries ruin your ability to grow weed for yourself? And why, when you tried to turn a profit off of a grow store were you not a greedy a-hole like I supposedly am? Your hypocracy is astounding, your world view naive and your legalization idea stupid as well as OPPRESSIVE.
Thanks for the laugh Sybil.
