Drug busts!

[FJRider]

No. It's about intelligent choices.

You need intelligent people to make intelligent choices ....

[Subike]

Use some of the tax to fund honest medical research (none of that one eyed shit) for providing guidance for the industry. Have the growers, as part of the conditions, grow hemp so that new products can compete in the marketplace... after all that's why it became illegal in the first place. They should be the terms else we run the risk of changing next to nothing and half arseing what could be a sensible use of everyone's time and money for a change. What could possibly go wrong?

correct me if I am wrong, but
was it not the American cotton farmers, who were using slaves as free labor who approached the American government to outlaw hemp so they could ensure the sales of their Legally grown new product?

And that was the beginning of the world wide prohibition of hemp?

To bolster the pockets of the rich, who paid bribes to the politicians, ( hold on, that sounds normal to me somehow )
All done for the cotton industry? Which legally owned slaves?

weird,

[ducatilover]

Some of us work for a living and would appreciate our hard earned going to legitimate growing enterprises
I couldn't be arsed, not even by you sweety, but would happily follow you around with my fingers up your nostrils so that you don't have to smell it. Pay me extra and I'll scratch my arse with both fingers and not wash my hands before we start.

You're a chum, don't give me pink eye.
Legitimate growing enterprises eh? Sounds catchy, I imagine the oppoturnity for more jobs in the...erm horticulture sector would pop up

[FJRider]

I imagine the oppoturnity for more jobs in the...erm horticulture sector would pop up

And level 4-6 dope growing at the local Polytechnic (NZQA approved of course)

[mashman]

correct me if I am wrong, but
was it not the American cotton farmers, who were using slaves as free labor who approached the American government to outlaw hemp so they could ensure the sales of their Legally grown new product?

And that was the beginning of the world wide prohibition of hemp?

To bolster the pockets of the rich, who paid bribes to the politicians, ( hold on, that sounds normal to me somehow )
All done for the cotton industry? Which legally owned slaves?

weird,

That's the first time I've heard about the cotton trade being dragged into it... I thought that was more to do with the Civil War, although it may well have cropped (snigger) up under the hemp guise too. From the many sites I've read (yes, the internet, heh) it seems that it was industry/manufacturing lobbyists that wanted it banned as hemp could be used to make something like 25,000 products including fuel. Mr Diesel having an engine that could run on hemp seed oil (claimed to be more efficient) and the oil oil folk producing petroleum. Add to that the textile industry (cotton?) and food industry and it was pretty much a done deal. Tis where reefer madness comes from scaring the population into believing that stoners would rape and pillage their way from town to town.

[mashman]

You're a chum, don't give me pink eye.
Legitimate growing enterprises eh? Sounds catchy, I imagine the oppoturnity for more jobs in the...erm horticulture sector would pop up

Wouldn't dream of it... whilst yer conscious

[ducatilover]

And level 4-6 dope growing at the local Polytechnic (NZQA approved of course)

Which still won't get you a job...

[mashman]

Which still won't get you a job...

At least it would be a transferable skill

[ducatilover]

At least it would be a transferable skill

Very true, I could get tips from one of these fellows on baccy growing?
I'm keen to give it a go (baccy, not whacky)

[mashman]

Very true, I could get tips from one of these fellows on baccy growing?
I'm keen to give it a go (baccy, not whacky)

From what I've read growing tobacco is relatively easy. You can grab bags of seeds for $5 or so off of tardme. Unfortunately I live on a clay mound and I'd need a serious digger and a few K's worth of soil to get a crop growing... kinda not worth it . Think blackdog was talking about giving it a crack.

[flyingcrocodile46]

From what I've read growing tobacco is relatively easy. You can grab bags of seeds for $5 or so off of tardme. Unfortunately I live on a clay mound and I'd need a serious digger and a few K's worth of soil to get a crop growing... kinda not worth it . Think blackdog was talking about giving it a crack.

FFS. A dozen big paint buckets and a 5 or 10 metre length of 4 metre wide clear 250 micron polythene draped and pegged over a 10mm rope strung between a couple of trees. Pinch the ends together and you're under way. How hard or expensive is that?

[avgas]

This thread makes me want to have a joint.

sounds like you had some horrible motorcycle accidents.

[avgas]

And level 4-6 dope growing at the local Polytechnic (NZQA approved of course)

You mean Seventh Form Hort at Kati College.............errr I mean I have no idea of what your talking about

[mashman]

FFS. A dozen big paint buckets and a 5 or 10 metre length of 4 metre wide clear 250 micron polythene draped and pegged over a 10mm rope strung between a couple of trees. Pinch the ends together and you're under way. How hard or expensive is that?

I don't have a any trees and live in a high wind area often adorned with trampolines from a few doors away... me unleashing 40 square metres of wood and polythene on the world is really not advisable and could see me up on murder charges. If anything I attempt to build turns out to last longer than a week it's nothing more than sheer luck... but I take your point.

[FJRider]

I don't have a any trees and live in a high wind area often adorned with trampolines from a few doors away... me unleashing 40 square metres of wood and polythene on the world is really not advisable and could see me up on murder charges. If anything I attempt to build turns out to last longer than a week it's nothing more than sheer luck... but I take your point.

Try growing indoors ... a lot of the commercial growers ( gangs ) have a great deal of success in this.