wooligan is wrong to say they'll never get the tax money from legalized MJ sales -> billions of $ in Hollands gov's pockets per year just from the MJ industry!
quoting myself "gives the government the possibility of controlling the use of the drug around the country to some extent" i was talking about controlling the USE of the drug, not the drug itself. i mean the use of it as in, lets say country M has legalized MJ and decide to try and make people quit, they'll start by increasing the price. tenfold in a matter of days will shock the customers enough to make sure they dont come back.
its the situation in Norway with alcohol. anything stronger than normal beer you have to get in what americans know as liquor stores. thing is, in norway, there is only one chain of those stores, which are government controlled obviously. the prices are completely insane, and i can tell you people hardly buy anything during the week and wait with much anticipation friday and saturday night to ruin themselves on gov. controlled alcohol.
the thing is, if industrial hemp got re-introduced into the market as raw material, all the oil, wood, cotton, wool (etc etc) providers would go broke straight away as hemp can replace them all (it can be used to make clothing, oil, paper, fuel..etc) and entire industries would dissapear and the world economy would just collapse. imagine what would happen if they found out that the fossile fuel/oil we've been pumped for decades now wasnt needed anymore by anyone... shell, texaco (and all other gas stations) would dissapear leaving a huge blank in the economy and so on and so on.
cause who wins from letting corporations thrive and dominate -> Governments -> "The System".
this link is a must to all pro - MJ & anti - cops ppl :
http://www.siegelsuniforms.com/pages...hp?subcatid=85 (check out the details of first item, designed for cops to wear !)
this is taken from an interesting document i just found on the web "the marijuana conspiracy - the real reason hemp is illegal by doug yurchey :
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger
in the land.
-- Ezekiel 34/29
THE REAL REASON CANNABIS HAS BEEN OUTLAWED HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND AND BODY.
MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT
harmful
to the human body or mind. Marijuana does
NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is
very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol,
tobacco industries and a large number of chemical
corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of
dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from
the people.
The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of
commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb!
Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of
pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about
an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their
companies.
which is confirmed by all the different sites that told me the same when i did some research about the topic about 5 years ago.
(by the way, didnt notice before today that the original post was indeed 3 years old ..)