‘WalMart of Weed’ Opens First Branch in DC
- Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:20pm by
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WASHINGTON – (AP/TheBlaze) A company dubbed the “Walmart of Weed” is putting down roots in America’s capital city, sprouting further debate on marijuana — medical or otherwise.
Just a few miles from the White House and federal buildings, a company that candidly caters to medical marijuana growers is opening up its first outlet on the East Coast. The opening of the weGrow store on Friday in Washington coincides with the first concrete step in implementing a city law allowing residents with certain medical conditions to purchase pot.
Like suppliers of picks and axes during the gold rush, weGrow sees itself providing the necessary tools to pioneers of a “green rush,” which some project could reach nearly $9 billion within the next five years. Admittedly smaller than a big box store, weGrow is not unlike a typical retailer in mainstream America, with towering shelves of plant food and vitamins, ventilation and lighting systems. Along with garden products, it offers how-to classes, books and magazines on growing medical marijuana.
“The more that businesses start to push the envelope by showing that this is a legitimate industry, the further we’re going to be able to go in changing people’s minds,” said weGrow founder Dhar Mann.
Although federal law outlaws the cultivation, sale or use of marijuana, 16 states and the District of Columbia have legalized its medical use to treat a wide range of issues from anxiety and back pain to HIV/AIDS and cancer-related ailments. Fourteen states also have some kind of marijuana decriminalization law, removing or lowering penalties for possession.
Nearly 7 percent of Americans, or 17.4 million people, said they used marijuana in 2010, up from 5.8 percent, or 14.4 million, in 2007, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. A Gallup poll last year found a record-high of 50 percent of Americans saying that marijuana should be made legal, and 70 percent support medical uses for pot.
Marijuana advocates also tout revenue benefits, as well as cost and efficiency savings for not prosecuting or jailing people for pot.
But a recent push from the federal government to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries has led several states to delay or curtail their dispensary programs for fear of prosecution. It means some medical marijuana users may seek to grow their own — paving the way for companies like California-based weGrow to open a budding number of locations across the country to help legal users and larger cultivators grow their own pot plants.
WeGrow doesn’t sell pot or seeds to grow it. The store, however, makes no secret that its products and services help cultivators grow their own plants for personal use or for sale at dispensaries.
Selling hydroponic and other indoor growing equipment is legal, but because those products are used to cultivate a plant deemed illegal under federal law the industry has tried to keep a low profile.
“For the longest time, it’s been a don’t ask, don’t tell industry,” Mann said. “Most people still want to hide behind that facade.”
Mann, who opened the first store in Sacramento last year, said he started his venture after he was kicked out of a mom and pop hydroponics store in Berkeley, Calif., just for mentioning marijuana. WeGrow has since opened a location in Phoenix and also will open stores in San Jose and Flagstaff, Arizona, in the near future. The company has franchisees in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and plans to expand into Oregon, Washington state and Michigan.
The frankness of the business comes as public attitudes toward marijuana use and legalization in the U.S. transform. But federal pressure on customers means companies catering to the marijuana industry could take a hit — in their wallets and with jail time.
“There’s a whole host of risks associated with investing and opening up shop here,” said Jason Klein, a D.C. attorney who represents medical marijuana operators. “These entrepreneurs see themselves as doing yeoman’s work, putting themselves in personal risk … to get medicine to the sick people who deserve it.”
D.C. officials on Friday are set to announce those eligible to apply for permits to grow and sell medical marijuana to dispensaries under the district’s 2010 law. Applicants must sign a statement saying they understand a license doesn’t authorize them to break federal law.
“They do so at their own peril because I can’t imagine that the federal government is going to allow marijuana selling for any purpose right in their backyard,” said Kevin Sabet, a former senior adviser to the president’s drug czar and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Substance Abuse Solutions.
“Whether it’s D.C. or all the way out in California, the government’s been pretty clear that medical marijuana doesn’t pass the giggle test.”
Sabet said the idea of dispensaries trying to be passed off as a medical establishment is a joke, adding that the grow store will be the first in a series events where people are going to try to “make big money off an illegal drug.”
The national medical marijuana market was estimated to be worth $1.7 billion in 2011 and is projected to reach $8.9 billion within five years, according to an economic analysis done for the American Cannabis Research Institute. The study also says that nearly 25 million Americans are potentially eligible to use medical marijuana based on current state laws.
“There’s great potential for the industry across the country,” said Steve Fox, a spokesman for the National Cannabis Industry Association, a D.C.-based trade group representing marijuana-related businesses. He said support for the businesses has emerged in states like California, Colorado and Washington state. “They are showing that just like any other industry, there’s a demand for a product and these businesses are sprouting up to address the need.”
The issue of marijuana in the nation’s capital isn’t new. A public referendum to legalize medical marijuana overwhelmingly passed in the late 1990s but Congress blocked it from taking effect for years. Allowing the city’s latest move on medical marijuana use could also indicate an attitude shift on a federal level.
“The political winds on a federal level really affect our ability to get things done on a local level,” said Brendan Williams-Kief, spokesman for D.C. councilmember David A. Catania, who co-sponsored the medical marijuana legislation. “When the (legislation) was passed, it happened at a time when there was a Congress that was less-inclined to exert their will on the District. … But they’re always up there on the Hill looking down.”
Klein believes that, despite being next door to Congress, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department of Justice, the D.C. medical marijuana program will avoid the ire of the federal government because it was crafted to tightly control the industry.
“It’s the sort of thing the feds will probably just look the other way elsewhere, but given the fact that it’s right under their noses, is going to really be unique conundrum,” Klein said. “I’m really looking forward to getting a couple of Congress people in a cab and caravanning them over to a dispensary … so that they can see that this is not the danger that they imagine it might be.”
For Alex Wong, the franchisee of the D.C. weGrow store, his involvement in the industry is both personal and professional. The mid-40s entrepreneur was drawn to the business after seeing the firsthand effects of his mother’s colon cancer and learning that medical marijuana might have made her more comfortable during treatment.
“It is a viable medicine,” said the. “All I can do is use my small business expertise to lend a hand in this movement.”
Rafael Lemaitre, spokesman for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, issued a statement saying science and research — not politics — should drive the approval process for medicine, and to date the “smoked form of marijuana has not met the modern standard” established by the Food and Drug Administration.
“Chronically ill and suffering patients deserve access to modern medicine that is proven to be effective and safe,” Lemaitre said. “We ardently support continued research into medical uses for the components of marijuana and will continue to do so.”
Mann, however, says medical marijuana cultivation and distribution is going to happen with or without federal government approval.
“Regardless of how rigorously they want to enforce intervention, it’s not going to stop the industry,” Mann said.
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Comments (77)
eramthgin
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:21pmHot damn about time. Regardless of your stance on this the Federal government has no right to tell me what I can or can’t put into my body. Either we are a free people or we are servants.
Report Post »closetotheedge
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 5:23pmOf course it works.It’s the hugh Pharma that have fought via pocket Sen n Reps to keepit illegal.It’s our #1 cash crop and its‘ untapped uses’ for safe use in mental and body desease’s yet to be found.It will stop the MX -US war and bring the resourses wasted on weed to fight the cartels and the Meth,coke heroin and weapons arming cartels, thank you Eric Holder and Oba I’ve seen some people attack a bag of chips, potato chips that is,or the brownies etc. But the munchies are a side-affect.Oh no,not the cookies,spare them,they(the brownies) are innocent but boy they sure taste good. It will vertually empty out the pot sentences from Cali’ prisons and other states as the truth comes out and proper guidelines,from minors to criminal acts The smoking lamp is lit,smoke um if you got em.But gas stations and markets are allowed to sell speed,alcohol,cigerates,lottery sleep aids etc.And it‘s our leaders who won’t see that they are the Biggest Drug dealers in North America. A Christian Patriot
Report Post »christos
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:18pm…The Illuminati wants everyone dependent on Science–Big Pharmaceuticals not +JESUS+GOD+ they have messed with the food since the early 1900′s,they want everyone to Bow to them,and think the same and be the same like BRICKS so they can be controlled,,,Planet Of the Apes,,,Wake Up America,,you either choose +JESUS+GOD+ to Trust in or you choose the New World Order.You are either Sealed with the +HOLY SPIRIT+ or you will receive a Chip of the Beast 666.
Report Post »christos
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:23pmWe don’t have to do anything about the Devils followers +JESUS+GOD+ will,pray up pack up we are going up,,,to meet +JESUS+GOD+ soon if not sooner,,,+JESUS+GOD+ is pulling Russian troops to the Middle East,,Hook in the Jaw,,as in the Bible…
Report Post »christos
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:12pm…The Illuminati wants your Pineal Gland Calcified,,,Calcium Carbonate is in everything it calcifies your arteries,that with an acid diet,,,= cash cow for Big Pharmaceuticals,,,
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:50pmIf you REALLY want to know why it’s still illegal…..then follow the money (because it will always take you to the truth):
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Narco-Dollars For Dummies
How The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade
by Catherine Austin Fitts
February 2002
To understand the threat of decriminalization of the drug trade, just go back to your Sam and Dave estimate and recalculate the numbers given what decriminalization does to drive BIG PERCENT back to SLIM PERCENT and what that means to Wall Street and Washington’s cash flows. No narco dollars, no reinvestment into the stock markets, no campaign contributions.
It was only a few days after Grasso’s trip that BBC News reported a General Accounting Office (GAO) report to Congress as saying: “Colombia’s cocaine and heroin production is set to rise by as much as 50 percent as the U.S. backed drug war flounders, due largely to the growing strength of Marxist rebels”
I deduced from this incident that the liquidity of the NY Stock Exchange was sufficiently dependent on high margin cocaine profits (BIG PERCENT) that the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange was willing for Associated Press to acknowledge he is making “cold calls” in rebel controlled peace zones in Colombian villages. “Cold calls” is what we used to call new business visits we would pay to people we had not yet done business with when I was on Wall Street.”
Report Post »http://www.mydropintheocean.org/reasoned-truth/narco-dollars
progressiveslayer
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:49pmCocaine was legal many years ago and the government in it’s infinite wisdom outlawed it and created a black market which caused dealers to engage in murder to protect their turf.The government made alcohol illegal many years ago and created a black market resulting in countless murders by organized crime.The government did the same with marijuana and big surprise the same thing happened,drug dealers murdering people for their turf,see a pattern here folks?
Once they take out or reduce the thc in marijuana for medical purposes maybe some people will get over the use of weed,don‘t worry they’re not getting high or euphoric,some people use it to reduce nausea from chemo and I don’t understand why people freak out because someone wants to use marijuana to ease their suffering.Government and busy body A holes stay out of peoples lives and stop dictating what they can and can’t put in their bodies.I almost forgot that war on drugs,it‘s a smashing success isn’t it? Thousands of murders on the Mexican border plus the thousands of murders elsewhere,it’s working out great.
Report Post »MARINE_CORPS_SOLDIERx21
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:05amI didn’t even bother reading the entire article; “medical” marijuana is NOT smoked and it remains to be one of the most controversial drugs on the market today. True medical marijuana is in pill form and does not produce the “high” one gets from smoking a joint and is therefore not widely used by those who have “prescriptions” for medical marijuana.
Report Post »I have spent many many hours researching this subject. Scripts were originally written to relieve pain for people with advanced cancer who were undergoing chemotherapy(sp) and people in the late stages of AIDS to help both groups regain their appetites. People who had undergone cataract surgery were also offered prescriptions for the drug as well, to relieve the pain in the eyes; this never made sense to me because I remember my eyes being irritated whenever I used the stuff :}
All humor aside, now people can walk into a “clinic”, get a script to relieve any pain they can imagine, lower back appears to be the most common right now, walk next door to the NEAREST medical marijauna “pharmacy” and fill the prescription.
Amazingly enough the states that are passing laws to allow the sale and use of this most basic gateway drug are the bleeding-heart liberal states, you know, the same ones that are confused about what constitues a marriage.
The only winner is the state as they collect the sales tax revenue, which is temporary.
FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:03amCan you give one good reason why people shouldn’t be allowed to use it recreationally?
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:51amYeah, we wouldn’t want all those folks go home get a buzz, the munchies, and be all mellow would we.
Report Post »Pick your fights America, and believe me this is not one of them.
Amos37
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:52amThe only reason it could even be considered a gateway drug is because it is illegal. alcohol is more of a gateway drug than marijuana. You can take all these different pills for all these different things but don’t light up a joint or end up in prison with rapists and murderers.
Report Post »zhaan
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:57pm“Can you give one good reason why people shouldn’t be allowed to use it recreationally?” Because when you smoke weed, everyone in the vicinity also smokes weed along with you. You remove the rights of other people to breathe clean, non-intoxicating air when you smoke weed around them. And yes, that includes in your home, if you share walls in an apartment or condo.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:51pm“Because when you smoke weed, everyone in the vicinity also smokes weed along with you. You remove the rights of other people to breathe clean, non-intoxicating air when you smoke weed around them. And yes, that includes in your home, if you share walls in an apartment or condo.”
Surely, you are on board with banning cigarettes as well? Wouldn‘t your compunctions lead you to advocate against being allowed to smoke around those who don’t wish to inhale it, instead of a blanket ban on the very possession of the substance?
Report Post »Tuuktalus
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:04pmUmm ok I won’t call you a name, I’ll just give you a dose of reality. Medical marijuana is smoked or eaten. Most people smoke it. The “marijuana” you inaccurately described is called Marinol. It is a pill. It is synthesized THC. It has been known to cause worse side effects than plain old marijuana. Hallucinations for one. Seizures for another. It also doesn’t have many of the beneficial components that help with convulsion and anti-inflammation, etc. Whatever “research” you have done is either biased, worthless or a complete fabrication.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:14amZhaan
We should ban all cars under your calculations. My tail pipe pollutes others air?
Report Post »Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:56amThe only reason it’s not legal is because the government does not know how to tax it. Unlike distilling Alcohol or growing your own Tobacco the Herbs can be grown in the comfort of your own home. Once legalized the Mexican Cartel’s are toast as it pertains to herbs. Marijuana is the biggest money making crop in the USA. Bigger than Strawberries, Blueberries, Broccoli, Potatoes, Peanuts, Walnuts, Apples, Oranges…well you get it.
Prohibition never worked and made Canada and the Island nations rich distilling alcohol for Al Capone……and keeping Marijuana in the Schedule 1 Drug Category, same as Heroin, Meth, Crack, Coke and Esctasy is just idiotic.
And as some one stated here….Hemp can be used to make rope and clothing. People in the Bible were Anointed with Hemp Oil. The early government required all farmers in the country to grow hemp on part of the land…………like always…..big Corporations….the Cotton Industry…..rubbed them out. Could not co-exists….I want all the money for myself.
Report Post »Stephen Markovich
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:10amscrew the feds … they want it illegal becuz its about control n they make $$ off it…proof? learned this in cop school in the Mid 1970′ s. where the $ from busts is kept by the bUsters…cops. Its black money n cant b traced. it also fuels litigation costs so the lawyers make $ off it. hemp is anoutstansi g multi use PLANT from clothes to fuel n feds afrId of its impact on existing businesses. Hence, med marijuana is legit n feds need to embrace its benefits incl the rev streams…it ould produce new jobs, too. n nullify mexican drug trade….but then how would the feds justify their bulsh it policies? lol
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:00amThe Obama Administration wants you to be on Weed. How else are they ever gonna be reelected on such a crappy record.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:19amMost pot smokers are liberals. If they’re high on election day, I guarantee most won’t bother to vote.
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:51amYeah you obviously have no idea what youre talking about! Obama wants you to smoke weed? If that were true he would not be raiding the clinics!
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:53amIf that’s the case, I wonder if he will buy me a new vaporizer.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:30pmWhy, then, is he prosecuting dispensaries? Your comment makes no sense.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 11:56pmIt is kind of amusing that so many people, who literally know nothing about cannabis, are still so vehemently opposed to it.
Do you think cannabis is illegal because it is bad for you? If so, you couldn’t be more wrong. Multiple industries have lobbied against legalization for decades because of the competition it would create.
Hemp can be used for fabric, textiles, rope, paper, food, fuel, cosmetics, building materials, and plastic alternatives. The textile, paper, cotton, and timber industries all have a vested interest in keeping it illegal.
THC is basically a miracle drug that can replace a plethora of dangerous drugs. At the same time, it has a safety profile that is unmatched by most OTC drugs. Think about how many drug commercials you see that enumerate a ridiculously high number of dangerous side affects, usually including potential fatality. The pharmaceutical industry obviously has the greatest incentive to keep it illegal.
Marijuana is statistically a “gateway drug” because it is illegal. Users are forced to buy it from dealers who would much rather get them hooked on the far more lucrative and addictive drugs. Ironically, this is used as an argument against legalization.
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:40amMost pot head I know are libertarians but the majority vote the left in who make the war on drug laws
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:58am@ShawnB Sure.. Reagan, Nixon, Bush.. Total Left…lol
Report Post »Carter almost had it legal.
Sheepleherder
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:02amGood stuff Freedom:
Barry Goldwater tried to legalize marijuana. I cannot believe in this day and age it wouldn’t even be considered for medical purposes. Have any of you ever smoked the stuff, or ingested it? Compare that to taking prescription pills, many of which have side effects so bad you are forced to take other pills to level them out. Xanax, Vicodin, Loritab, Oxycontin, etc. are wayyyyy more addictive and toxic substances, it isn’t even close. Take the Liberal/Conservative out of things on this issue and ask yourself who is this really going to hurt? If it is simply because you are against people getting high, that’s fine. I certainly wouldn’t support any law for full legalization, as I don’t want to have someone lighting up as I take my kid to the park, instead they can just breathe everyone’s cigarette smoke I guess.
Meanwhile we want to call this a gateway drug? Big pharma has killed or made an addict out of more people than marijuana ever did. 7% use the stuff, yeah right? If that is a true stst, then it wouldn’t be such a lucrative business for criminals. It’s much closer to 30-40%, this isn’t exactly a poll to which people provide honest answers.
“By show of hands, how many people cheated on their spouse last year? Noone?”
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:00pm@ShawnB
Report Post »You got that one wrong buddy, the conservatives are the law pushers, left up to the left the laws would be much laxer, if you don’t so just look at the countries that have legalized pot and you will see most if not all are Socialist.
AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:01pm@sheepal
I am not married..I am a recovered cigarette smoker since 1985 (& don’t miss them)..I take a low-dose aspirin everyday..that’s it. Now when I was reading all of the posts etc., yours did catch my eye and before posting, I went to The Bible & Revelation 9:21…Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their “sorceries” (and then it continues) but I want to stop at the word “sorceries”..Pharmakein (Pharmacies)…drug culture in today’s world. Hummm.
Report Post »I am high on life because I know where I am going for eternity.
zhaan
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:00pmYet another pot propagandist who downplays the negative effects on pot. Every pothead I know is a space case who is mentally fried. Pot is not good for you, you can see the negative long-term effects on people who use it regularly, as plain as day.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:43pm“Every pothead I know is a space case who is mentally fried. Pot is not good for you, you can see the negative long-term effects on people who use it regularly, as plain as day.”
Just how many potheads do you know? The idea that cannabis fries your brain is a ludicrous myth, and continuing to propagate simply reveals ignorance of the highest order.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 10:23pmWhat’s the physical difference between marijuana and medical marijuana ?
Report Post »Wouldn’t the same penalty as illegal use or sale of Oxycodone or Vicodin apply ?
This calls for mandatory testing for Congress as they only want you the people to be the captures.
RosePurple
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:01amHere!! Here!!
Report Post »mjazz
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 10:08pmDo they have any that doesn’t make you paranoid?
Report Post »geminimoon
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 11:04pmThat’s just a mental issue, nothing to do with the weed…
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:48amIts BS that its illegal but 78,000 deaths are reported to the CDC of alcohol related and no one has died from pot! So it trips me out that conservatives will argue the legalization of alcohol but condemn marijuana! How is that possible when no one has died?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:14pmMove the capital of this nation.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:12pmThe world has gone to POT, I will be glad when the Lord comes for His own. There is no longer anything this filthy world could offer those who want better.
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:26pmlol. No eternal reward will forgive you now for wasting the day!
You know that “God” Made Pot right?
You Know the Bible was Printed on Pot, right?
You know that God wants us to partake of ALL seed bearing herb, right?
Grow up.
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:44amUmmm the ancient Jews used marijuana during biblical days. Just google it.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:10pmDo you think that God made a mistake when he created the herb? Are maybe your preachers, and government have been lying to you. Don‘t worry the world won’t end, less folks will be in jail, or prison for something so benign and not only harmless, but beneficial in so many ways that it is hard to count.
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:09pmCures Cancer!! It was a CRIME not to grow it.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:49pmI say before any war, all the leaders of the world sit sown and smoke the peace pipe first, get the munchies then have a good meal talk about their family and friends and then discuss why they want to kill each other.
Seriously, the banksters wan to keep weed illegal so they can keep laundering the money at 20 percent. The gun lobby likes it also because of the gun violence. The privet prison lobby likes it because they have a endless supply of customers.
Research who makes a profit from this and you will find the most despicable people anywhere
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:17pmYou have my nomination for Secretary of Defense………Oh, and Minister of Distribution of the hated herb.
Report Post »npbreakthrough
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:12pmWe shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.”
- John Adams
“Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.”
- George Washington
“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.”
Report Post »- Thomas Jefferson “The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”- Albert Einstein “It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crap. It’s a thousand times better than whiskey – it’s an assistant – a friend.”
- Louis Armstrong
npbreakthrough
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:18pmwisen up blazes..
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:29pmThats right. If people only knew how Washington and everyone else in that time grew hemp. Its a great plant. It harms NO ONE. You can make tons of stuff. And who cares if people smoke bud. Never killed anyone. Im all for regulation. Makes it safe. People (mostly neocons who love that America locks up more of its citizens than anyother civilized country in the world) have been brainwashed by the MSM. If pot were to be legal nation wide it would cut into the profits of the mediacl est. And thats a no no. So the same lies will keep being told. Wake up America 2012
Report Post »thespank
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:30pmHey dude, can you pass the hemp rope?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:10pmThey need to move the capitol of this Country.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:11pmY do u think thry cllll lit DOPE
Report Post »MetalPatriot
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:06pmI don’t understand how State law (or D.C.) can trump Federal law. CA has some of the most draconian gun laws (with the largest gang population who DON’T register and have FULLY automatic weapons with larger than 10 round magazines).
CA also allows marijuana dispensaries. (You just go to “their doctor” and tell him you have stress/headaches/back pain and you get the card: no real medical proof required)
Why is the 2nd Ammendment not legal hear and yet an illegal drug is ok?
Seriously, why is this ok?
Report Post »ericnnnghm@msn.com
macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:03pmBecause the Feds are wrong. A wrong law is obeyed by sheep, free thinkers will find away around, or maybe they just….wait for it……..Won’t Comply.
Report Post »MetalPatriot
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:31pmThanks, MacPappy
I’m reading “Original Argument: The Federalist Papers”. Trying to understand this issue.
Report Post »possom
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:57pmSo that‘s what king obie ment about green job’s, now bill clinton will be in washington alot more.
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:49pmNo stems no seeds that you dont need. hit pay DIRT. wanna get High?
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:39pmI remember decades ago reading of some guy in the San Diego area getting all sorts of accolades and entrepreneur of the year awards, chamber of commerce best business man award and such. He was making millions per year. He had all sorts of patriotic American flag paintings on his product packaging and all sorts of patriotic advertising slogans. What did he sell? Hydroponic grow chambers. Duh, do you think people were growing tulips in those chambers?
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:36pmWhy yes I was growing tulips. Was I wrong?
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:40pmYou mention his patriotic products and various accolades and enterprises yet fail to explain what your problem is with the man.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:14pmshhhhhh, I still have mine.
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:33pmI‘m starting to think the Berlin Wall wasn’t so bad. Maybe we can hire the builders to build one around Washington.
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 10:28pmI agree! BUILD A WALL AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE AND JUST CALL IT “THE WHITE HOUSE JAIL”.
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:31pmThis country has gone to heII
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:09pmYeah Weed was the undoing of America, And here I thought loosing LIBERTY was the cause! Silly me.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:17pmYeah thanks to social cons, neo cons, and modern day liberals.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:24pmAre you sure the downfall of America is not due to hooded thugs looking for a fast score, or Liberals working for the downfall of the nation, or a whole race of folks being hand fed for 60 years by the government within a capitalistic system and becoming such a burden on society that it just could not stand the weight of welfare.
Report Post »No, not all that, it was weed. That darn weed, if only all those folks had not smoked weed, we would be in great shape.
spirited
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:28pmThose bullets ordered must be for those angry used to be useful idiots
>when they’re out of work.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 7:26pmDC, oh sure yeah why not, the vile crime-ridden ‘front porch’ of this communist-ghettoed nation. it will really be a picture worth a 1000 words.
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