Comments on: ‘Too High to Fail’ explores the ‘green economy’ of cannabis http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/11/14/%e2%80%98too-high-to-fail%e2%80%99-explores-the-%e2%80%98green-economy%e2%80%99-of-cannabis/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:52:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mike http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/11/14/%e2%80%98too-high-to-fail%e2%80%99-explores-the-%e2%80%98green-economy%e2%80%99-of-cannabis/comment-page-1/#comment-7134 mike Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:36:34 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=41521#comment-7134 I don't get the logic advocates of legalizing pot say it is because the current laws fail and cannot stop flow of drugs etc. They claim by legalizing it we could get millions in revenue etc. People who smoke pot are anti-establishment they skirt the laws. Why would you think they would want to pay taxes? If they skirt the law now they will skirt the tax on pot. How can you tell the difference between pot that has had a tax on it and one that hasn't? Under the new proposals how can you tell pot bought legally and one that hasn't? Enforcement fails now advocates claim why won't it in the future? I don’t get the logic advocates of legalizing pot say it is because the current laws fail and cannot stop flow of drugs etc. They claim by legalizing it we could get millions in revenue etc. People who smoke pot are anti-establishment they skirt the laws. Why would you think they would want to pay taxes? If they skirt the law now they will skirt the tax on pot. How can you tell the difference between pot that has had a tax on it and one that hasn’t? Under the new proposals how can you tell pot bought legally and one that hasn’t? Enforcement fails now advocates claim why won’t it in the future?

]]> By: Wlliam http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/11/14/%e2%80%98too-high-to-fail%e2%80%99-explores-the-%e2%80%98green-economy%e2%80%99-of-cannabis/comment-page-1/#comment-7102 Wlliam Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:36:08 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=41521#comment-7102 I think is going to be more people not working because they are going to be high all the time. I think is going to be more people not working because they are going to be high all the time.

]]> By: Eric Sunswheat http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/11/14/%e2%80%98too-high-to-fail%e2%80%99-explores-the-%e2%80%98green-economy%e2%80%99-of-cannabis/comment-page-1/#comment-7084 Eric Sunswheat Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:37:12 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=41521#comment-7084 Perhaps the joke of the mystery as to why Matt Cohen and Doug Fine are so vehemently suppressing the messenger behind the green curtain, who discovered that a blatant lengthy help wanted classified ad was placed by Northstone Organics, in the Ukiah Daily Journal a week before widely publicized federal bust of Northstone’s processing and central cultivation facility, is that both of Matt and Doug actually wanted the eradication for the publicity it would bring to their true agenda of non drug tainted financial success. Doug had been writing a book on Matt’s project, from the start of seed germination to distribution with the collective dispensary contribution sales, so Doug wasn’t making drug money, but would be keenly interested in the myth perpetuated by the factual omission in Doug’s book, echoing the media myth commentary from around the nation, of reporters who did not find the published classified ad smoking gun. For perhaps a year’s time, Matt had been doing extensive public interviews, with video segments appearing repeatedly on national television programs. Rumors persist Matt was probably paid $10K each for some of the interviews which were televised, as that supposedly was the sum offered by several media video crews to another Mendocino dispensary operator who chose to remain unpublicized. Matt’s money is clearly not drug related as it is clean from the televised presentations, and thus he remains a free and clear martyr of the medical cannabis movement. So there is a certain irony, in that Matt now represents the medical marijuana Emerald Growers Association which supports the new AB 2284 (Chesbro) Irrigation bill, which if implemented by any County Board of Supervisors in California, after the first of the year 2013, which would allow a peace officer to stop all vehicles for inspection, which are visibly transporting irrigation pipe over any unpaved road, public or private, if LE has a legal right to be on that road. The rational of the Emerald Growers Association, appears to be that their water sources are legitimate, so they don’t mind diminished civil rights for others transporting supplies who could be doing it for illegal growing, because their own growing is legal. But are not the EGA members, in a sense, ducks in the same pot of soup under certain threats of illegality, except of course for the legit media stars, Doug and Matt, so why would any of them support traffic stops for investigating movement of water pipe on unpaved roads that are not on public nor timber resource lands? Is it like no honor among thieves? Did Matt and Doug sure pulled a fast one on this, and hoodwinked almost everyone, lock, stock, and barrel? Perhaps the joke of the mystery as to why Matt Cohen and Doug Fine are so vehemently suppressing the messenger behind the green curtain, who discovered that a blatant lengthy help wanted classified ad was placed by Northstone Organics, in the Ukiah Daily Journal a week before widely publicized federal bust of Northstone’s processing and central cultivation facility, is that both of Matt and Doug actually wanted the eradication for the publicity it would bring to their true agenda of non drug tainted financial success.

Doug had been writing a book on Matt’s project, from the start of seed germination to distribution with the collective dispensary contribution sales, so Doug wasn’t making drug money, but would be keenly interested in the myth perpetuated by the factual omission in Doug’s book, echoing the media myth commentary from around the nation, of reporters who did not find the published classified ad smoking gun.

For perhaps a year’s time, Matt had been doing extensive public interviews, with video segments appearing repeatedly on national television programs. Rumors persist Matt was probably paid $10K each for some of the interviews which were televised, as that supposedly was the sum offered by several media video crews to another Mendocino dispensary operator who chose to remain unpublicized.

Matt’s money is clearly not drug related as it is clean from the televised presentations, and thus he remains a free and clear martyr of the medical cannabis movement.

So there is a certain irony, in that Matt now represents the medical marijuana Emerald Growers Association which supports the new AB 2284 (Chesbro) Irrigation bill, which if implemented by any County Board of Supervisors in California, after the first of the year 2013, which would allow a peace officer to stop all vehicles for inspection, which are visibly transporting irrigation pipe over any unpaved road, public or private, if LE has a legal right to be on that road.

The rational of the Emerald Growers Association, appears to be that their water sources are legitimate, so they don’t mind diminished civil rights for others transporting supplies who could be doing it for illegal growing, because their own growing is legal.

But are not the EGA members, in a sense, ducks in the same pot of soup under certain threats of illegality, except of course for the legit media stars, Doug and Matt, so why would any of them support traffic stops for investigating movement of water pipe on unpaved roads that are not on public nor timber resource lands? Is it like no honor among thieves? Did Matt and Doug sure pulled a fast one on this, and hoodwinked almost everyone, lock, stock, and barrel?

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