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The Future Of Cannabis
The recreational cannabis industry is changing fast, and the last few years have been a blur for investors observing the space.
More people today believe that cannabis should be legal than ever before, and famed investors like Peter Thiel have already made giant bets on the future of recreational cannabis.
Here’s five facts you need to know on the fast-moving industry:
- Recreational cannabis is already legal in four states and D.C. It is also available for medical purposes in 20 other states, as well as Canada. Viridian Capital Advisors, which provides research to the cannabis sector, estimates between 6 to 13 states will legalize recreational usage by end of 2016.
- Legal cannabis was a $700 million industry in Colorado last year. In 2014, Colorado retailers sold $386 million of medical cannabis and $313 million for recreational purposes. The two segments of the market generated $63 million in tax revenue, with an additional $13 million collected in licenses and fees.
- Stocks in the sector have boomed over the last two years. The Viridian Cannabis Index, which covers 60 publicly traded cannabis companies in the United States and Canada, was up 77.5% in 2013, 38.4% in 2014, and 23.6% in 2015 Q1.
- Total legal cannabis sales have sailed in recent years With $1.6 billion in sales in 2013, it is expected to increase to $3.5 billion in 2018, which is good for an expected 17% compound annual growth rate.
- Nearly half of U.S. states and all of Canada now have access to medical cannabis. That includes 23 states (148.6 million people), 1 district (0.7 million people) and Canada (35.2 million people). That’s 52% of the entire population of the United States and Canada.
The landscape of the cannabis industry is quickly changing. More jurisdictions are turning to legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, and the growth story behind the industry is just beginning for investors.
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Well, as I can only guess as to your charcter like you condescendingly do mine, my thoughts are you must be a.marginal programmer since you need a.second job.
Maybe if you smoked pot after work instead of before your skills and efficiency would improve and you would be deserving of more pay.
Sorry you feel like a.child Im trying to control.
Well, clearly your non-pot-smoking mind is far more addled than mine, as I explicitly said "I don't go to work high". I get at home between 4:30 and 5, smoke 1 bowl, and do 20 minutes of stretching 'cause I'm old. 14 hours later, when I get to work the next day, I'm no more stoned than a person who has a glass of wine with dinner would be drunk (which, since you seem to have difficulty with abstract concepts means: not stoned/drunk at all).
And I am working the 2nd part time job because I'm hoping it leads to a full-time job that is 1) more interesting and 2) more lucrative than my current gig. But instead of blindly sending out resumes and hoping, I found someone through networking, convinced them to take me on part-time at very little pay, with the intent of proving myself to them, and thus getting them to invest in me full time. Sorta knocks the crap out of your 'no ambition, no motivation' BS doesn't it?
I don't feel like a child in the slightest. However, you are clearly trying to control me and others. What is missing in your background that you feel so inadequate that you can't be content with having control over your own life, and must control the lives of others as well?
I dont smoke pot when I have to work (or drive, for that matter) and most other pot smokers I know are the same way. As for making smokers temp 'retarded', that is just ignorant nonsense. I suspect there are *many* other reasons I would not work for you (actually I do not work for other people) so find something else to worry about besides your bottom line...
Does having a hangover cause workers to forget an important work detail? Maybe we should ban booze as well, that would work out just fine I'm sure.
Did someone write something about getting high and going to work while high?
The reason to legalize it is to stop the black market and therefore keep the gangs out of it.. you know, to make your streets safe for your children and yourself (gang wars) ring a bell? Drive by shootings.
Now if it is legal it will be worthless unless of course the .gov tries to rape the legal purchasing cutomers as they try to do in Colorado.
If it is legal then when you get busted for marijuana cultivation the crime will be less. More people will grow it and keep the greedy .gov and big corp out of it.
In Colorado you can grow up to six plants, with half of them being in the flowering stage.
BY what right do "they" say you can't grow 7?
By this right:
Originally you have no rights, nor responabilities. Your are under no jurisdiction nor protection. On your own.
The local armed forces have tacitally offered you the following deal: In return for their protection and whatever rights they decide to grant you, which you didnt have before, you will pay them taxes and obey their laws. Wise military commanders understand that a happy and prosperous population pays more taxes than an abused, demoralized one, so they aim to strike a balance between their need of taxes and their bloodlust.
Right now they granted you the right to have 6 plants. Perhaps next year they'll let you keep 7, but you have to make a good case that it works on their benefit too.
Dont get me wrong, you are not powerless against TPTB, you do have power, just not all of the power. By making the right moves and tricking the right people, you'll satisfy at least some of your demands.
True, pot is harmless!!! The people who don't smoke it on the other hand are very dangerous... They are just another type of gang.
GWPH
This is Monsanto's chance to become accepted... maybe they can create a killer weed...
You can bet they're already working on it. The only hassle is that the natural plant already has some pretty awesome qualiities even aside from the fact that you can get high as a kite. And I don't even like the stuff,
Too late, they've already got killer soy beans and corn. Really killer.
Is it me?
Or are pot haters usually, bible thumpers?
When I went to colorado I constantly heard about xtian anti pot crusading women bitching about this or that. Women hate weed for the most part, probably because they have lots of things to bitch about. So moral.
Some 'xtian' communities actually passed local ordinances so they were essentially 'dry'.
The people drinking wine/blood of their suposid created hate a plant.
Christian luddites are the reason we aren't living in star wars universe and flying to other planets.
Meanwhile every red neck has a 4 by 4 that belches black dirty 'merican diseal.
I hate blue states like colorado, but at least they have legal weed.
Red states are chock full of flat earthers waving the flag and spouting nonsense from their bible babble.
The left and the right are so tyrannical its simply amazing.
I suggest a purge.
HEY! No dissing of Luddites here! I'm a Luddite, and have no connection to any religion.
bible thumpers in general are just useful tools for the govt and corporations to exploit for their particular agendas. They use bible thumpers' strong 'beliefs' ....
"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." - Adolf Hitler
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator." -ol hitler "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." -Hitler "It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge." -Adolf's best quoteJust legalise it for fucks sake
So what is Idaho's problem? (Besides the fact that the southern part is drier than the Sahara) Are you telling me that there is no dope out there? If you are then you are an idiot. You can't even drive through the state without getting a contact buzz. Jeebus.
If you want to go up into the mountains and smoke some pot then who cares? I didn't smoke while I was out there but for Christ's sake no one is bothering anyone. Go crawl up one of those mountains and smoke a doober. That is not hurting anyone. Jeebus F'n Crisp, you are at 8500 feet elevation on the road. And then crawl up the side of mountian, which is not easy to do at all, so now you are at 10000 feet or so. You are not bothering anyone because there is no one there to bother. What is the problem again?
Legalize it for all.
Barry's bong & dong crusade in Afrika was shot down - by niggas
And Barry said he didnt swallow (er, I mean inhale) but Ill bet he did...
I truly believe its great that the cannabis business is growing and aqcuiring market.
Here´s why : Compared to liqour/alcohol cannabis is a harmless drug (according to our best scientists) AND people that begin to use cannabis tend to stop drinking alcohol. Thus the damage of the drugs to the people become LESS as cannabis increase its market share (It is estimated that people drinking alcohol on average reduce their consumption of alcohol by at least 50%.)
Some new cannabis smokers totally stop drinking alcohol. We don´t know why this is so since research in this matter previously has been more or less prohibited. For the same reason there are no scientific studies to confirm that cannabis actually work as a substitute for alcohol. However, many anecdotal observations seems to confirm that this is so.
In other words: Considering that alcohol is a major cause of an abundance of social tragedies and lethal health issues it is really great that the cannabis market is growing rapidly !
And having said that it may be that the MAJOR reason why cannabis has been under international prohibition is to protect a very lucrative alcohol business in USA, England and France, that happen to be the three leading alcoholprofiteers. USA is the worlds nr 1 producer of liquor and England and their whisky is nr 2. France is nr 1 in revenues from wine production.
Further it must be noted that the jews always have been firmly rooted in the alcohol industry. For example they were the leading liquor manufacturers before the prohibition AND controlled the bootlegging in USA during the prohibition. Another example is the french Rotschild family that makes a lot of money on exporting their famous french wines all over the world. They have also turned Israel into one of the worlds leading wine exporters.
I expect the alcohol manufacturers business to suffer severely as cannabis as well as many other less harmless drugs are internationally legalised (if ever).
Remind me to get off the road if you go behind the wheel after smoking some dope.
Based on what? The only tests I've seen show 'high' drivers drive better than straight drivers.
I've raced cars and motocross 'high' and prefer to do so. In my opinion, it focuses the rider/driver on the task.
I find personally that no matter what task I undertake, that canabis increases focus, and particularly with manual tasks (like driving, mountainbiking, motocrossing, shoveling, grinding, cutting, wood splitting, carpentry, gardening et al) puts me into a groove where I feel as if I'm one with the machine.
What I'm saying is that cannabis affects different people differently. Unlike alcohol which always impairs past a certain point (say .05 BAC). Levels of relative impairment vary based on tolerance but the fact is a drunk has poor balance and reaction times.
Again, prove to me or anyone else here that cannabis slows reaction times or causes balance issues, because I sure the fuck don't notice either effect.
I know a guy that drove heavy trucks for 40 years. For his first 20 years and 1.5 million accident free miles, he toked on the job. Told me it made him more focused and made the driving 'not seem like work'. He hauled gasoline, hydrogen, and various other dangerous liquids. In the late 80's they started piss testing so the guy stopped smoking and finished his career with another safe 1 million + miles. Did weed make him a bad driver? You tell me.
I don't buy the idea that cannabis causes a physical impairment and thus 'stoned' driving is in no way similar to 'drunk' driving. The only time I drank beer and jumped on my dirtbike I hit a tree 15 minutes later. Overconfident, slow reaction time, and poor balance. That was 30 years ago.
In this instance, most non-pot smokers have no idea what they're talking about and haven't consulted any real data on the subject. They're relying on .gov propaganda, which evidence shows is 100% bullshit. Or assuming that cannabis=alcohol, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Drunk drivers swerve into the other lane and kill a family of four, and they usually walk away without a scratch. Stoned drivers just miss their exit.
In America the Jews are heavy into pot. Ethan Nadelman. Rabbi Kahn of Tacoma Dispensary in DC. Lots of others (Dr. Green I believe)
Back in my High School days (1970's) we grew piles of the stuff. East of town is low-lying, soggy land that has been turned into muck farms - farms with drainage ditches running through them all over so you can grow crops on the drained part. Back in WWI and WWII they grew a lot of hemp commercially to make ropes. Hemp looks exactly like pot but doesn't get you high. Hemp cultivation was later outlawed, so now they grow spearmint instead, but the drainage ditches are still full of wild hemp (we called it "ditch weed").
We learned how to grow pot from the older kids:
1) Buy an ounce of "commercial" pot ($35). It was a baggie of dry brown pot brought in from Mexico or Columbia, made up of "shake" (dry crumbled leaves), small stems, small "buds" (flower tops where the seeds form and the most potent part of the plant), and lots of brown viable seeds about the size of BB shot.
2) Separate the seeds & stems from the goody on a Pink Floyd album cover. Smoke the goody. Throw out the stems. Save the seeds.
3) In the spring, plant the seeds in the hemp ditches. Mark your plants with landmarks and maybe a beer can or something so that later you'll know which ones are yours and not just common ditch weed. Pot is best planted at night.
4) In late summer, go back to the drainage ditch with garbage bags and a loping shears. Harvest your plants - you get about a garbage bag full of fresh pot per plant since it grows five to seven feet high. Pot is best harvested at night.
5) Dry the pot on a tarp in a parents' attic or garage rafters, somewhere where you won't get caught with it. It shrinks way down. When it's dry, strip the leaves & buds from the stems. You'll have a couple pounds of first-generation ditch weed, known as "Wisco" (I'm from Wisconsin). A joint the size of a cigarette will get two people stoned. Two joints and you're baked. Three joints and you're comatose.
"Three joints and you are comatose"
A couple hits of budder and I am comatose.
5-6 hits of bud, dusted in hash, blasted in shatter and butter, and....well....
Smoking flower hurts my lungs tho.
Hail to mother cannabis.
And pink floyd, smokers of the devils lettuce...
http://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM
We used to germinate the seeds first in a wet washrag until little sprouts popped out, then plant. Back then weed wasn't this brain eraser like it is now....or at least it didn't seem that way when you were 15 in 1977. The older I get the more I think the proliferation of the pot industry is a deliberate move to keep people stupid and lazy.
And yes, always a pink floyd album cover. Mandatory.
File cabinets filled with file folders of customer names and addresses are hauled away during clinic busts. Tax evasion is deadly sin in this business.
Trudeau has instructed the Justuce Minister to work on a framework for legalization. Meaning the mandate for legalization is in the political machinery in Canada.
https://www.civilized.life/trudeau-gives-justice-minister-mandate-to-leg...
Smoke out dude. Stay asleep.
Another way to keep people on the foggy edge of conciousness, but they can feel like they are not being led around my the pharma industry.
Not to say that Cannabis oil and other uses don't have medicial value - they do - but most people I find get their weed prescritions here in CA just so they can buy designer hootibus with zero hassle and stay stoned in front of some goddamned video game, remaining, as always, disengaged.
There is so much mis-information and dis-information about pot that I find amusing. Back in my twenties, I smoked pot. Then I just stopped for about twenty years, no big deal.
Then just about a year ago I got a MMJ card here in AZ, mostly because I felt stressed out. Why was I stressed? From watching a spouse slowly drink herself stupid, usually with bourbon, on a daily basis. I do not use alcohol myself, so I have been able to make some clear headed comparisons between the two, and there is no comparison. IMHO, alcohol is *far* deadlier than pot.
The only problem I have with the MMJ program in AZ is that they try to pass it off as 'medical'. I mean, yeah it does help some people, I am not disputing that. My problem is with the lying, greasy, local gubmint whores who are tacking costs on it every time you turn around. They TAX it, you have to pay the state $150.00 EVERY YEAR for a fucking card, and the cost of the products is generally ridiculously high. I get the feeling they would rather have just straight out legalized it, but being the spineless, simpering twats they are, were probably too afraid of what .gov might do.Pot has been legal for most of recorded history, only since sometime after the great WW's did that change.The states could care less about helping people with medical issues, as always their mantra is 'whats in it for us?'. Bunch of pussies...
They need us a little fucked up for what is coming.
As they kill off the 'American Dream' for the NWO 1% globalist dream ... something's gotta give besides just the monetary implosion ... a little pot can't hurt when the only jobs left in the country are shit jobs
Don't bogart this tread, my friend .... isn't the turkey ready ? EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AGREE THAT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO "FREELY" DO WHATEVER YOU WISH WITHOUT INTERFERENCE OR HARMING ANOTHER FELLOW PLANETARY TRAVELER IS PARAMOUNT ?
Ignorant dogma sucks. Liberty is the best choice.
The truth is we are always free to do whatever we want including harming others. Of course others are free to defend themselves. That is the natural condition of man.
Once again, follow the money. Who funds the studies that says pot is bad? The biggest drug pushers of all, big pharma. The same ones that have over 40 million on anti-depressants. Then they get to sell you more shit to counter act the side effects.
If you smoke pot all day long you will have the same productivity as someone who drinks all day. Only without the liver damage. Most pot smokers don't partake all day long, just as social drinkers don't start the day off with a bloody mary.
Cannabis cures cancer and that scares the cap out of big pharma. Cancer treatments generate huge profits. Big alcohol is also nervous as hell also about the aspect of legalization of pot.
I partake daily, at the end of my day and sleep better than I have in my 60 years of trying to de-stress and turn my brain off so I can get to sleep. Once I gave up alcohol I finally reached my goal weight and feel better than I have in years.
To the naysayers, do your homework before you spout off and display your ignorance. Follow the money and look at who is funding the "research" you choose to believe. It's the same fuckers who buy off the FDA and put prescription drugs on the market that should never be legal.
I am working on the first superbowl pot commercial .... gotta come up with a little tune to match busch beers' old commercial
"Superbowl" pot commercial? Sounds interesting. Do you have a newsletter?
FUCK YOU, CORPORATE WEED.
Grow your own....remember independence?
Besides smoking it, the oil has medicinal purposes that would put pharma out of business.
Even industrial weed is a more sustainable and renewable than trees for paper products. Industries way then sought to make it illegal for that reason.
Just my 2 1/2 cents here.
Knew a guy who grew MJ in his closet (about 3x6) in 2010-11. Had three good "seasons" and hasn't grown any since. Has plenty and this is four-five years hence, so, it's not difficult to grow and a little bit goes a long way.
I've been a smoker since 69. Tried other drugs, didn't overdo them, quit them because they were harmful. Don't do any prescription drugs because THOSE WILL KILL YOU.
A lady friend with high blood pressure (she takes pills for it) recently was laid off from a pretty high-stress job (exec. admin assistant). About a week after her separation from WORK, she noticed that her BP was lower. I said, "smoke some herb, I bet it will be even better."
She did. Checkd her BP about 1/2 hour after a few bong hits. NORMAL.
In NY, Emperor Cuomo has endorsed (and the legislators passed) a MMJ bill that allows growing and processing, but outlaws MJ in smokable form. Yep, that's right, you can grow it, cultivate it, process it into pills, foods, liquids, but DON'T FUCKING SMOKE THE STUFF.
Our state emperor sure is one over-zealous moron. I have a hunch that he'd be a better guy if he took a toke every now and then. But, of course, that would ruin his career as a crusading, neo-liberal, dirt-bag, scum politician, and we just can't have that. He wants everyone in the state to make at least $15/hour. I guess when everybody's rich, they won't want any herb.
The whole issue is stupid, and, like everything else the government gets involved in, gets over-legislated, regulated, taxed and destroyed. Cigarettes in NY are soover-taxed the Native Americans on reservatios are becoming millionaires, maybe billionaires. More "illegal" cigarettes sold and smoked in NY than legal ones. Good plan!
Bottom line: grow your own and don't tell anyone.
Edit: I bought land last SPring and was too busy to even put in a garden. By the time I was settled, it was late May, so I just focused on other things and got plenty done. This Spring, I will be prepared for a nice vegetable garden and lots of tobacco plants, which is the one thing that got me into gardening in the first place. I've gorwn tobacco in a small suburban back yard and had six and seven-foot high plants, cured the leaves and smoked them. All natural. Excellent. I can't wait for the cops and/or other crusading a-holes to come over to my 5 1/2 acres this Spring to tell me how I can't grow my own tobacco. I intend on growing maybe 200 plants, enough probably to keep me in tobacco for two years. 4 plants yield a pound of smokable tobacco, a pound lasts me about two weeks, so 200 plants, 50 pounds, roughly two years. I won't sell any, but barter? I'm sure there's a law against that too.
Governments are finally realizing what I've been saying for years. SOMA has arrived. Pot is the perfect drug to keep a population complacent and non-involved. So yet another item to be taxed and overpriced by government regulation instead of government making it illegal.
If you want some grow your own or you are just being owned, again.
SEE? DO YOU SEE NOW?
https://youtu.be/W0xHCkOnn-A
Whats Thanksgiving without a weed discussion?
Remember being younger, great chow at the Grandparents, some kind bud and a good nap. In Florida where passing MJ got shot down. Florida is having another big real estate bubble growing. So plenty of property and sales taxes from retiring northern snowbirds making it permanent here.
NH where I am from turned into a major police state. They went bust in 2011. Anyways, just saw they are going to put a 'medical' Mj dispensory in Dover where my office used to be.
Government = Hypocricy
As Reagan said it is the problem not the solution.
What are some of you cops here so upset about? The taxes can help you have far more time at the shooting range and donought shop and flirting with pussy than busting people for an once of weed. Thats actually more work.
As someone already said, prohibitions dont work and many of your states and locales are BROKE.
I take chill pills and drink. If I could smoke a bowl I would have two drinks, chill and go to bed twice a week. Instead I drink over a fifth of 93 proof Rum in one sitting to finally take me down when wound up.
Thats about 21-25 shots gentlemen. And the only times I really fucked up in my life was when I was shitfaced. So cant do that so guess Ill just keep becoming more of a dink to the rest of you in society thats better, am I right? The treatment for most mental imbalance begins in the digestive system. A few real judgemental people here but perhaps no different than some church goers.
Here in SW Florida it is the black dudes with weed. It isnt an option to go out looking for some for me. Most of the retired boomers here drink and smoke and if not butts then cigars. Awsome I get to pay for there Medicare! I actually dont care what people do. Dont be a hypcocrite while pushing the cost on me and we can get along fine.
My Grandparents that hosted those fine times are dead. My broad doesnt like Turkey and father in law gets hypomanic so she doesnt like to go there (shame he puts on a good spread and is half way decent guy) .
But I am thankful to the people here of all nations trying to look after one another. I am thankful and a bit lucky to have made it to 45 and in decent health. The broad is great, 31 year old Irish/Scottish nurse with green eyes. She likes pie so Ill eat a piece of pumpkin and then some other triangle and so thankful for that!
More emphasis should be put on deregulating and declassifying industrial hemp. If you think the marijuana sales are encouraging wait until hemp is deregulated and declassified in all states - 30,000 uses and counting.
I find that hard to believe, 30.000 uses? Sure it has uses as food, fuel, oil, chemical feedstocks, fibers, clothing, paper and in construction but so do many other plants. How many uses are there for corn?
Bunch of pot smoking liberals right here on ZH.
Bunch of pot smoking liberals right here on ZH.
I suppose that explains Rand Paul and Dana Rohrabacher.