re: Athens Decriminalized Weed - $35 fine

Back in my youth we knew the safe dealers with good product in Athens, and later in Atlanta after graduation. Even in high school in Alabama, we knew the local moonshiner that made safe backyard alcohol.

You brought fake news and i brought actual local knowledge. I will go with the local citizens take over yours.

There are dozens of acticles and documentaries that point out what i am telling you.

Once it becomes federally legal and all states follow, the tax base will not be as big as people think. The novelty will be gone and people will go about it as they always have.

If it were legalized nationally, how bad would that hurt the CO dispensaries? Because right now, a very very large amount (I don't know the number, I don't know if the number is knowable) are from out of staters. If those people didn't have to go to CO to get it, how bad would that hurt CO weed market? I bet it would be pretty painful. And I bet the tax revenue from it would suffer substantially for the state. And I bet the state would answer by jacking up the tax. And I bet the amount of black market weed would climb higher and higher than whatever it already is.

At this point, none of these numbers are known or knowable. Why the three of you are calling each other names and taking such obnoxious postures against each other is bewildering to an intelligent observer like myself. One thing to note- the two commies are on one side and the non-commie is on the other. Guess who I'm going to side with?

It's Friday afternoon. Order a pizza and drink some beer. Take a toke on the porch. Settle down.

Deeprig, you get it. Its happening now on a smaller/moderate scale in some states but California has already jumped back to the black market heavily. The others are propped up with tourism. The truth is, people have product they like or grow and dont need the massive taxation and overhead of the dispensary market. I am amazed people are so naive to argue. Colorado is tryi g to crackdown on black market but time is always on the blackmarkets side.....

Funny having to argue with people who have likely spent little if any time in these states versus someone who spends months a year in them.

I gladly paid taxes for $120 ounces in Denver. Black market drugs aren't tested for mold and pesticides.

A skip, a scattle

a skip skap skee!

I said, “A bip bap fiddle faddle , weed! Weed!! WEED!!!”






Grow up, dorks.

I remember the first time I smoked some high quality weed. It went really well with Steely Dan.

This is a true statement

Eh, the pot from my generation was pretty benign. Folks started coming up with the boutique stuff and it certainly fricked you up if you were not expecting it. I haven’t done it in a log time. Makes me sleepy.