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On 2/26/2012 3:20 PM, BAR wrote:
In articlep_Kdnelbdrumw9fSnZ2dnUVZ_qKdnZ2d@earthlink .com,
dump-on-
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On 2/26/12 11:20 AM, BAR wrote:
In articlebeCdnXwnuLSUytfSnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@earthlink .com,
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On 2/26/12 10:56 AM, BAR wrote:

Where are the independently duplicated and peer reviewed
research
that
shows that second hand smoke causes health problems?

The medical and scientific fields are rife with incorrect
conclusions,
sub-standard methods and politically driven persons.

What are your qualifications to find, understand, and
judge
legitimate
medical research?

You are too funny. What are you qualifications to question
anyone
else's
qualifications?

I think if you are going to try to challenge peer-reviewed
medical
research in scientific publications, you ought to have some
recognizable
qualifications.

What are your qualifications to question anyone else's
qualifications?

It is having a huge effect on the market.. Changing the whole
dynamic.
Taking the manufacture and distribution to a totally different
level.
Away from organized criminal organizations, and directly to
Suzie
Homemaker...

You must have excised the content here.

I think so. My comment was directed at the notion that 350
dollar an
ounce pot was not having an effect on the market... And it
certainly
is...

Ahh. I missed that. Is that up or down? And what effect is it
having?

I do not endorse the use of any illegal substance, all of my
information
is based on hearsay, my own research over the internet, and other
sources over the years who wish to remain anonymous.

OK,...here we go...
Well, back in 1976 an ounce was less than ten dollars. It would
come
over from Jamaica or Vietnam with traveling service men, and other
world
travelers, average Joes, it was still somewhat casual but
beginning to
go more main stream (move to the suburbs) from about 69 on.

At that time there were two distinctive levels of quality
available.
Regular like I said, less than ten buck an ounce, and then the
specialty
stuff like Colombian Gold, and Panama Red which cold reach the
amazing
price of 40 dollars an ounce...

Things really changed quickly in the 80's when criminal elements
realized how much money was to be made on pot, and really
decided to
take over the business. One of the things they did right away was
begin
to develop domestic production by sending growers from California
all
over the country, north western Mass, and particularly to Canada
where a
lot of the production moved indoors. This all made for a much
fresher
and significantly more potent, hand tended product rather than the
imported stuff which was often beat to **** and smelling of
something
foul by the time it gotpot to the US. Although the imported stuff
was
still
available, by the mid 80's it was almost completely replaced by
the
domestic crop and the prices skyrocketed to an average 200 an
ounce by
the mid 80's ten times more than it had been just a decade
earlier.

The whole market swung back in the last couple decades for
suburban
consumers anyway. With the availability of technology,
information on
the net, genetically superior seeds in the mail with
practically no
possibility of discovery has turned the whole market right back
where it
started with random, unconnected (mostly non criminal except for
the
pot) producers all over the country. Distribution has gone back to
the
days of the local farmer, mostly serving local friends and family.

Stronger and better (taste, smoothness, etc.) is being genetically
developed all the time and some of the higher priced strains now
can go
for nearly 500 an ounce for top bud (top plant material)...

There is still a good amount of poor quality imported stuff coming
over
the border, but no longer the great strains of the past like the
golds
and reds, just commercial bunk, mostly sold in the inner city in
dime
bags on the street corner. That can still go for close to 200 an
ounce
if you were to find a distributor willing to sell that much.
Most of
them want to cut it to dime bags and make a fortune...

So, that's how the price of pot has effected the industry... in a
nutshell

Ahh, thanks. I don't follow the pot price curve... :)

Hummm, yeah I know a couple here will get stupid but it's all on
the up
and up. I get my info mostly from legal sites representing legal
retail
stores across the country and world... I tend to stir them up a
bit as
although I know there are some very legitimate medical reasons for
some
folks to smoke, I don't subscribe to the whole "medical marijuana"
hoax,
I just believe in straight legalization... 95 to probably 98% of the
folks using "medical marijuana" are full of crap...

Dope is dope Scotty. Do you suggest that all regulations on dope be
rescinded?

No, I think Marijuana should be treated like Tobacco or Alcohol...

Why tobacco?

I really don't understand the question... But I think it should be sold
over the counter like cigarettes, or if necessary in more controlled
retail setting like hard liquor and wine, here.

That's pretty liberal thinking.

You got me, I am a closet liberal But seriously, I have been telling
you folks I am a Libertarian for years...

Why is it that you and Harry don't get along with each other better, then?

Because Harry is very far left and therefore can't think outside of the
box in that some things the right offers might be good. Scotty on the
other hand is very far right and therefore can't think outside of the
box in that some things the left offers up might be good.