yup....ALL about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s

Right there with you, man. I've smoked, off and on, for over 50 years and can take it or leave it. Have gone months, even years, without and it never bothered me. Haven't paid for cannabis for as long as I can recall, and will share whatever I have with anyone, which now is OK since I live in CA and it's legal.

I use a grinder...hehehe

@Agr8m8
Making Cookies ?

@VAL3941 currently no, but back in L.A. in 2005 I started a small cannabis edible company and made teas and chewy granola bars, it was called, 'Wake and Bake Foods'...I designed the logo//

@Agr8m8
What happened, the business go bust ?

@VAL3941 I started it cause I had no money, not the best time to start a 'start-up'...I was having surgeries, couldn't work, was in a lot of pain and eventually sold it to two guys that were completely inept at just about every aspect of making, marketing and selling these awesome products.

@Agr8m8
Start again,?

@VAL3941 That was in Cali, now I live in Michigan (caring for parents) and they are on the fence about cannabis edibles.

@Agr8m8
Always something ! Lifes a bitch !

@VAL3941 Life is SWEET, Karma is the bitch...hahahaha....

@Agr8m8
You got me there ?? Lol

@VAL3941 ...just trying to stay positive...and in a way I do feel that the crappy parts of life have to do with karma, our choices, learning curves, intuition and the constant pressure of the universal molecular vibration sequences....wait, give me more of those granola bars...hahaha

@Agr8m8
Sounds like you have a Phd in Karma ??

@VAL3941 ...as we all should once we past 50 right?..haha...

@Agr8m8
Don't know about that ? Meg some prettg stupid people in my life !

@VAL3941 true....me too, hence the term 'should', agreed that many don't.

@Agr8m8
We must be careful,,I was hualed over the coals by someone objecting to me calling some people stupid ! Lol

You did your homework.

@Betty I appreciate the function laws are intended to serve. If I'm going to brazenly and without remorse just disregard a law, I would prefer to have sound reasons to do so, and an at least partially defensible argument against the rationale behind the law. I won't even get into marijuana as a schedule 1 controlled substance, or the potential detriment to cancer research all this nonsense creates. I won't go into how a bunch of white people are making money hand over fist legally while black and brown people are rotting in jail because they were trying to do it before the laws caught up (which as a federal law, no state legislation can actually prevent the DEA from busting people because it's still a federal crime, technically, which happened more than a few times during California's early years of legalization) to the idea that maybe marijuana is just another in a long line of victims of business-powered politics. Not, in my opinion, that this is actually any different from any other system of government through history apart from the illusion of control and freedom the general vote creates. The people with resources influence the government, get involved in the government, and then shape the methods of that government to enforce the status quo and to ensure that others can't upset the balance of resources. And it's done largely in the name of stability, or tradition, or religious morality.

@geist171

I agree. Politicians have a history of favoring big business that can help them in their climb up the social and economic ladder and they use taxpayer dollars to do it. Laws, regulations, policies, and rules are supposed to be created for the benefit of the citizens but too often politicians spin the information in the attempt to benefit big business in return for support. That's why hemp was shut down as a viable raw product for paper and textiles and eventually made illegal.

It was beneficial to create a drug war to keep the black and brown population poor and segregated from the white population by demonizing them. This allowed them to reduce and scrap social programs and keep funding for schools and medical services at a minimum.

Religion has done more to harm minorities by keeping the majority docile in the service and to the benefit of government. It was "religion" that legitimized slavery, the slaughter of aboriginals, and allowed the government to officially diminish their human status.

For thousands of years, religion and the governing body of the day worked together to divide and conquer and they have been very successful.

The law is not always right when it is to benefit some by sacrificing others.

BINGO!!

Bingo. $$$ will change everything.

That's part of it.

@Betty a HUGE part imo...

I live in Kentucky and I'll bet Idaho will legalize long before we do, whether medicinally or recreationally. Numerous bills have been introduced this year and they all go nowhere.

I love Idaho, my brother lives in Boise, and has a cabin up in the Garden Valley on the Payette River. It's a beautiful state, and people are so friendly, mostly.