There are tobacco farmers down here with land just waiting to be allowed to grow cannabis.
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:53 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Smoking non-tobacco products (was Re: states rights) I'm fine with people using chewing tobacco products. The health risks are well understood now and communicated. 20, 30 years ago the tobacco industry was still actively suppressing any research that might let people know the real harm involved in their products. So long as research about products are allowed to be free and the companies making those products aren't lying to their customers then I'm good. As for marijuana, I don't think that it has as much big business potential. People don't tend to smoke as much pot as tobacco (most people at least). You won't find many 3 packs of joints smokers out there. Secondly, it is much more difficult to grow your own tobacco than it is your own pot. Marijuana is a weed and grows easily all over the place. Combine those two things and I think it makes it likely to be more of a boutique business than tobacco. There would be some large scale businesses out there I'm sure, especially in the R&D genetics side of things. That is already a fascinating area. But down on the personal consumption part, I just don't see marijuana developing companies the size of RJ Reynolds. Judah On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No one minds people smoking tobacco at home (away from their kids), or >> outside (but not near me). >> >> It isn't any of my business. > > The problem with you response is that it's internalized. I asked how > society would view it. > > Today we have people that want to tell smokers where they can and > can't smoke. We fund anti-smoking campaigns with tax dollars from the > general fund and yet we fund cancer research with cigarette sales tax > money. States have sued tobacco companies and won or settled based on > medical issues that arise from smoking. > > If non-tobacco products were "legalized" in all 50 states would that > not lead to the commercialization of such products? Might it not lead > to the same cycle as the tobacco industry fell into, where over the > course of 50 years smoking went from glamorized to demonized? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287345 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
