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The U.S. cannot be considered a free country until a man can grow whatever he likes in his back yard.
"if you think about how it would end up operating, that the capacity of a large-scale drug trade to dominate certain countries if they were allowed to operate legally without any constraint"
Like the oil industry's dominance?
Drugs fall into different categories (at least in my perhaps naive mind). Ones that virtually anyone can grow. Ones that depend on a cultivated crop that perhaps grows best in one or two countries (like the oil question above). And ones that can be made anywhere with chemical supplies.
I don't see the dominance of countries. I can imagine intense corruption in a few countries due to the vast sums of money involved. Again, like the oil example.
Why does every discussion of drug legalization focus on marijuana? What is the logic behind anti-narcotics hysteria? Is it pure profiteering? The CIA traffics in cocaine and heroin. Israel is the world's largest distributer of heroin, and the US occupies Afghanistan which produces roughly 90% of the world's opium.
The government also grows it own pot.
The CIA doesn't traffic in cocaine and heroin. Why would they? I'm pretty sure they have other ways of supplanting their budget should the need arise.
Israel has a relatively high usage rate of heroin, but that doesn't make it the largest distributor.
US troops in Afghanistan often burn poppy fields.
Furthermore, absolutely no one in the US is seriously proposing legalizing heroin, so that's why it's never mentioned in discussions of drug legalization. (Ron Paul doesn't count)
I propose legalizing heroin. The scare stories about heroin have as much scientific basis as touching a frog causes warts. It was only outlawed because the Russel opium trust was losing its monopoly in the 1920s. People are often poisoned by adulterated heroin and designer drugs hundreds or thousands of times as potent as heroin, but pure regulated heroin would be safer than aspirin. Aspirin casuses intestinal bleeding, but the worst heroin can do is cause constipation.
And turn you into a heroin addict. You, sir, are clearly high.
Yet nicotine (which is rather more addictive than heroin) is legal. And we manage to deal with nicotine addicts, aka cigarette (and pipe and cigar) smokers.
Furthermore, second hand smoke harms nonsmokers, and it is extremely unpleasant. Even most smokers don't like it. Smokers are also more likely to spread influenza and tuberculosis and more likely to be mentally ill and criminally inclined.
Okay, even if your dubious claim that nicotine is more addictive than heroin is accurate, you're talking about the rate of dependency, not the effects. Nicotine withdrawal is really unpleasant. Heroin withdrawal can kill you.
However, the effects of heroin addiction harm non-users, and they are extremely unpleasant. Most heroin users don't care, because they have to shoot up because they're addicted to it. Users are also more likely to spread AIDS and hepatitis and more likely to be mentally ill and criminally inclined.v
Actually there are numerous sources that state and an abundance of evidence that the CIA has been involved in drug smuggling for the past 50 years. Whether it was using Air America to smuggle heroin and opium from Vietnam, smuggling Nicaraguan cocaine into the USA to help fund the Contras, or the drug trafficking they were involved in Panama. Opium production in Afghanistan sky rocketed after the USA occupied the country. This could simply be because we've been less successful than the Taliban at preventing drug production, but given the CIA's history I'm sure there's more to it.
"Heroin withdrawal can kill you."
That is factually untrue. Only the withdrawal from alcohol, barbituates, and perhaps benzodiazepines is potentially fatal.
Unlike what Mark says, I think narcotics are a really bad idea. But I'm inclined to think that legalizing it and putting it out in the open is better than leaving it in the black market in the hands of gangsters and CIA sponsored foreign insurgencies.
Only ten percent of heroin users are addicts, and they are more likely to be criminals in the first place in large part because most of them smoke. When heroin is used to treat cancer pain in Britain fewer than one percent become addicted. And in the late nineteenth century morphine was used successfully to treat tobacco and alcohol addiction.
I oppose legalizing adulterated heroin and dirty hypodermic needles, and were it possible, I would ban smoking but allow pure nicotine products.
"Brothels that play by the rules must employ high-wage locals with work permits; they find it hard to compete with pimps bringing in low-wage illegal immigrants."
What is this? Starting another war on job creators?
When I was a kid my dear sweet mum tried to train our dog not to run into the street. Her method was to stand in the street, call the dog, and then whack the hound for going into the street. It didn't work.
Drugs come with their own carrots: money for dealers and a high for users. They come with their own sticks as well, addiction and death. We've tried - for all of my life - to battle the carrots with additional sticks.
Our approach to drug control seems to have the same flaw and comes from the same emotional place that mom's method for dog training came from. It seems to have the same success rate.
I don't think carrots and sticks are a matter of getting the right balance. There's too much space between.
Why do these prohibitionist jackasses always come out with their bogus claims of the world will go to hell and a hand basket if something is legalized. If a plant like cannabis were legalized, it would be regulated as well like alcohol. There are many groups in the United States that are trying to do this this year, and in the coming election years. Legalize, regulate, and tax. I am not a drug user, to include smoking or alcohol, but I support any movement to end this ridiculous drug war.
P.S. Obama, the world did not collapse into itself after alcohol prohibition was ended, and it would not end if cannabis or other drugs were legalized or decriminalized.
What you guys fail to recognize is that if marijuana became legal, it does not mean we can generate a new source income for the government by taxing it. Why would anyone pay 10-20 bucks for a gram of marijuana when you can grow pounds for free in a few weeks. It is such a easy plant to cultivate. Its not even marijuana the drug but hemp the industrial plant
Think of all the industries that will be affected. Pharama, prisons, paper(we can put a stop to deforestation), cotton, oil just to name a few.
If marijuana is legalized, humans in general will probably benefit in terms of happiness and quality of life but it will mean less GDP to feed the capitalist machine that we have in place today.
People brew their own beer and may also grow their own tobacco. If you wanted to you could churn your own butter. But most people don't have the time or the interest.
Marijuana is different from some of the other substances in that you need less of it, but there will still be a lot of people who choose to purchase based on convenience. Sales at musical events would certainly be high. Pun very intended.
The difference is no one actually need beer and tobacco.
On the other hand someone who is spending thousands on cancer meds will be more likely grow their own weed.
This is why they spend so much money lobbying to keep it illegal. Can you see how people growing free medicine might hurt the bottom line?
This is not mentioning that growing weed is so much easier, faster and gives off a much higher yield than tobacco. Weed is what it is, a weed. It will spread and grow even without human interference if left in the ground. And for beer. How can one compare planting a seed in the ground and adding water to starting a home distillery.
For one, marijuana does not really treat cancer the way that chemotherapy and drug treatments do - it helps with nausea and appetite and how good one feels. I'm pretty sure it doesn't cure the illness.
Also, you don't use a distillery to make beer - you make a mash and then let it ferment. It's actually painfully simple, as is the making of wine. And hell, a home distillery is actually really simple - you buy a pot for your stove with a tube and then distill. Done. It's really easy. You can even make homemade hard cider by letting hard cider ferment a bit. Not the healthiest thing in the world, but it works. The thing is, homemade beer, wine, and liquor cannot compete with quality made beer, wine, and liquor. Basically, homemade stuff could hurt Coors and Miller, but probably won't hurt Fat Tire or Yuengling. It might drive Smirnoff or Jack Daniels out of business, but not Bulleit or Blue Sapphire. Similarly, people growing weed would probably find it difficult to make really quality weed - they'd have to regulate soil pH, watch water levels, ensure the right amount of sunlight, regulate soil nutrients, have good seeds and breeds, etc. It would be more likely that quality marijuana produces would specialize in quality products, as opposed to cheap stuff anyone can grow.
Actually there has been studies that found marijuana to actually reduce the size of tumors and related to reduce rates of cancer. (use google) Also people are spending thousands on drugs to help offset problems with chemo.
Even if not everyone will grow marijuana there would be enough people to doing it because it is legal and so easy that it drive down the price of it so much that it becomes non-profitable.
Now for making beer vs growing weed.
-You make beer from cider vs growing it from a seed
-cider is expensive on itself compared to a seed which are cheap and probably free if you save it. (Cider may cost the same as beer in the store)
-you can make only the amount of beer as you have of cider when 1 seed can probably yield you enough marijuana to last months and >1000 uses.
That isn't my point however, either is growing weed and making beer. My point is the reason marijuana is illegal is pure economics an lobbying of industries. Giving away something for free to the people is bad economics even if it helps people.
I don't think the taxes are a reason for legalization, but I do think that your argument fails.
If what you say is true, I don't know why people aren't growing now. In Colorado the "clinics" are competing against home growing patients, and they seem to have enough business.
Beer might not be the best comparison, but very many people choose to buy tomatoes rather than grow them.
I don't think the taxes are a reason for legalization, but I do think that your argument fails.
If what you say is true, I don't know why people aren't growing now. In Colorado the "clinics" are competing against home growing patients, and they seem to have enough business.
Beer might not be the best comparison, but very many people choose to buy tomatoes rather than grow them.
Weed is still profitable because it is illegal. Many drug dealers do grow their own marijuana and see a lot of profits. Prices are reflective of the risk someone will take if they were to be caught and not because it is hard to do so.
Growing a tomatoe plant will yield you maybe 10 or so tomatoes. When growing a cannabis plant makes you pounds of marijuana enough for hundreds or even thousands of uses depending on tolerance level.
Im not saying growing tobacco or tomatoes and making beer is really hard to do. Im just saying the same energy involved in growing marijuana would yield you tens or hundreds times that of anything else.
As long as it is profitable to do so. More people will do it until the profit reaches 0 in a perfect competition. This is the law of supply and demand. Right now there are barrier of entry that forcing the prices in it being illegal up but what happens if those barriers were removed and the we have pretty much an abundance of supply because growing marijuana has such high yields? Profits will drop until it becomes 0.
Basic economics 101.
and for Colorado dispensaries being profitable.
What really driving up prices is the risk for growing it.
My guess is less than 1% of the marijuana in this country comes dispensaries. Hence dispensaries are not the real price setters in this industry but rather drug dealers' supply and demand. If the dispensary only charge a dollar less than the drug dealer or even the same or more but market on service and convience they would be profitable.
You aren't suggesting that medical marijuana is what drives the marijuana market are you? If so, perhaps YOU can produce a superior homegrown weed to that of a commercial operator. ;)
Look, homegrown/homemade anything is usually better in taste, quality and better for you. Yet most things are processed.
I don't disagree that legal marijuana will be far less profitable than illegal marijuana, but it won't be zero profit. As margins shrink, large scale operators are the only ones who can function. It is likely that cultivation of weed would mirror that of other crops. But I can assure you, people will buy it.
Out of curiosity, have you grown marijuana?
I've not, myself, but I do have a vegetable garden in the community patch where water is included and there's some support. There are regulars in the patch, and every year there are new comers. The new comers start off working as hard as anyone, but typically 9 out of 10 are discouraged and abandon their plot by mid summer. Vegetables aren't hard to grow, but they do need care.
Maybe marijuana is just that easy, but a visit to...http://howtogrowmarijuana.com/ suggests that like any plant it needs some work. Most people will give up and buy rather than do the work.
Even for the ones who do not, pounds of marijuana would seem pretty ambitious. Stumbling around on google takes me to a stoner site that suggests 7-14 ounces per plant is reasonable, and that's with average care and attention. Getting a lot would be work.
I expect prices would drop, but that doesn't mean profits won't still be high and I doubt they'd reach zero.
And, if you econ 101 taught you that having dropped to zero, profits will stay at zero, then I would surmise that your professor might be a good source on how to grow marijuana plants.
silencedog what you fail to factor into your argument is that weed has way higher yields than any other crop.
Growing a single marijuana plant today can be worth thousands of dollars when you would need a hundreds of poppies flowers to make the same worth in opium and coca to make cocaine.
This is why you can't compare marijuana to anything else. Making beer in your basement is probably not profitable for your time compared to just buying cans of it. Growing tomatoes is not worth the opportunity costs of doing so either. Same thing with other drugs. But since marijuana yields are so high per plant, the opportunity cost of growing will always force people to grow their own marijuana until the profits = 0.
I'll use an example. If a single marijuana plant is worth thousands of dollar as it is today, there are people willing to grow hundreds of plants in order to make a profit but risk going to jail for. Now consider if marijuana were legalized, the price of a single marijuana plant may drop to hundred of dollar initally? Now let me ask you. Why would you go to work if a single plant is worth hundreds of dollars and there are no penalties for growing it. The answer is you won't. You probably would start a farm of marijuana plants if it was legal and worth hundreds of dollars per plant.
If pot were legalized it would be pretty much free. And free is bad for business. Sad reality of the situation today.
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No i have never grown. But I'd assume it'll be easier than most plants because it grows in the wild in abundance.
7-14 ounces is still worth more than 1000 dollars per plant. And when economist say profits being zero in a perfect competition they don't mean people won't make money off of it. It takes into consideration opportunity costs. So if a year of your time is worth 20k then you would grow marijuana if you can get 20k or more out of it. This will continue until prices drop below 20k.
It doesn't have to be taxed to massively improve state finances. All legalization has to do is get rid of the huge expense of enforcing the drug laws, and budgets will be in better shape. And that's before the prospect of having less crime because addicts are not committing them to finance their habit.
Thats also part of the problem jouris. Enforcing the drug laws is a business. Prisons are privatized in America and there is more budget going into it than the education system. However we don't because prison corporations lobby to keep it illegal also so we can lock people up and keep prison guard employed and prison CEOs wallets fat.
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If we cared about the budget in the first place we wouldn't be so much in debt. Enforcement is also a business. Prisons are privatized in America. They also have the power to lobby politicians. There is more money going into the prison industry than the education system. Scary aint it? Add that to the mountain of list why this drug will not be legal.
No one smokes industrial hemp. One might as well smoke rope. Despite the negligible THC content, the DEA is determined to fight industrial hemp cultivation to the death if need be.
Decriminalization is the worst of both worlds. Drug use is widespread, yet it is not regulated and flows through the black market.
All drugs could be fully legalized and regulated on a spectrum which follows their potential harm, i.e. marijuana (regulated like food to ensure no harmful chemical additives) to heroin (like a prescription drug) Hard drugs would require a waiver of certain rights to use--like voting for instance--to protect society and discourage use. But if you wanted them bad enough you could get them.
I doubt this will ever be politically viable, but it would be consistent with freedom.
I agree with you about decriminilization, but this:
"Hard drugs would require a waiver of certain rights to use--like voting for instance--to protect society and discourage use"
is just stupid. If we can trust alcohol users to vote, I think we can trust anyone else to do the same.
If you think alcohol is equivalent to heroin or crack, that is what is stupid. Nobody is performing fellatio for a beer. If opiates can induce that kind of control, the person shouldn't be allowed to vote (or be mayor of Washington, DC but I digress). We don't let felons vote either.
LSD and other things would be fine. I'm talking the worst of the worst.
I'm not saying that alcohol is the equivalent of the worst of the worst, but I also don't see any reason why one should prevent a person from voting and another should not. I was thinking in terms of impairment of judgement and in that category alcohol is among the worst and is certainly worse than any stimulant or opiate.
In terms of addiction, alcohol does not produce physical dependency as quickly or as commonly as say heroin, but alcoholism is every bit as debilitating. There are alcholics performing fellatio for hard liquor. For both alcoholism and opiates the motive is the same: gain access to your fix to avoid withdrawl. Alcohol withdrawl is worse and is potentially fatal. The reason we don't see the type of crime associated with opiate addiction as commonly among alcoholics is because alcohol is cheap and readly available; as would the other drugs be if they were legalized.
None of that should disqualify a person to vote and I think felons should be allowed to vote as well. The fact that we don't let them makes a mockery of our supposed "rehabilitation system". If the millions of people victimized by the War on Drugs were allowed to vote, it is a lot more likely for the war to already be over. Still people, actually in prison could be prevented from voting.
Sure, political leaders should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us.
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
My views on drug decriminalization are simple. We know what Prohibition of substances does, since in American history, we have a great example - alcohol.
What Prohibition did was dramatically curtail alcohol use as most people followed the law. However, it also made alcohol use more dangerous, as people resorted to "moonshine" made with methanol (wood alcohol), which has similar effects as ethanol (grain alcohol) with the added bonus of causing blindness. In addition, Prohibition made some crime lords very rich and politically powerful and contributed to overall crime. Those crime lords were wiped out when Prohibition was repealed. And of course, people were put in jail for nothing more than selling alcohol - people who were otherwise harmless and law abiding.
So at best, drug prohibition is curtailing drug use but ultimately is making drug use far more dangerous than it should be. Also, there are drug lords living in Villas courtesy of the higher prices stemming from the drugs' illegality. And of course, we have non-violent drug offenders filling prisons and draining public funds.
Also, I routinely ask my patients about illicit drug use. If the only people admitting drug use were the "best and brightest," using all their wits to outsmart federal drug enforcement agencies, then you could argue that drug prohibition is effective at limiting access. However, I have plenty of patients who dropped out of high school, don't exactly make the smartest decisions, etc., who have steady supplies of hard drugs, implying that for all the money we spend on drug policy enforcement, all that separates people from access to drugs is money and "knowing a guy."
In conclusion, our current drug enforcement policies are expensive, ineffective, crime supporting, and have an adverse effect on health - punishing people for being addicted instead of treating them.
Actually, alcohol use INCREASED during prohibition. So, viewed from any angle, was a futile notion.
Why would Obama do this? Why on earth should drugs not be decriminalised? I'm with Ron Paul on this one. The government has no right to regulate things such as marijuana or prostitution. The war on drugs has only been a hugely destructive force for the Americas, and decriminalising drugs would be a step towards ending it. Of course, one should never, ever, take drugs, but we should have the right to, and decriminalisation is simply the right move to make in order to provide for peace in Central America. For more of my thoughts on these subjects, visit my blog at http://www.collamuse.blogspot.com.
Really? I thought the article gave a pretty good reason why prostitution needs to be regulate - because not regulating it harshly enough has been show to enough increases the problem of women being forced to become sex workers.
Why would people write these comments plugging their blogs? Why on Earth do they think anyone cares?
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The point of the Summit of the Americas last week was to present the idea of decriminalization to the giant gringo nation to the north. Of course the USA cannot change policy now for two reasons. First, the congress can only work on one idea at a time and now cannot even agree on a budget. Second, Obama would not embrace any idea that could be used against him in the presidential campaign.
I think the question to ask now is what happens next? Guatemala and Hondrus cannot continue to let their countries be overrun by criminal gangs. So would Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica or any of the nations in favor of decriminalization take some unilateral steps toward that goal? The Economist should take up that theme next.
" However apparently in the United States, we never learn from history"
ain't that the truth!
In my opinion, the US should learn from the Netherlands. Weed is still technically illegal to prevent farmers from growing it, but personal consumption is tolerated. It reduces the tendency for black market consumption (which is far more dangerous) and doesn't result in widespread incarceration.
From my personal experience as a college student... I did a deal of weed in high school and then became clean when I came to college for financial reasons. No matter if you make it legal or illegal won't matter, people will still do it. If you want to do it, you can do it. If you want to get it, you can get it (very easily). Think of it as the drinking age law. I have been drinking since 16, and I have found people to buy alcohol for me. The drinking age makes it more dangerous in this country. Look at countries in Europe, in the United States, we are known to drink "too much" because we can't learn to drink properly at a younger age with parents and such. Now think of Marijuana, if they legalize it, I won't just go buy it, because I don't want to. If I want to, I will just support the drug trafficking community. Making it illegal is only making it an underground business. Another example: The abolition of alcohol. This made people famous like my hometown hero Al Capone. Making alcohol illegal didn't help society, it only made it worse.
This is the point of history, to learn from it. However apparently in the United States, we never learn from history (Iraq after Vietnam).
One more thing: I have gotten drunk, drove and crashed down a hill, woken up with tattoos in my mouth, and have a numerous street signs that I've stolen. Nothing bad has ever happened when I smoked weed; I've actually written some of my best literary work under the influence of weed. So tell me, how is it that I can drink alcohol that is clearly worse for society, and weed which might actually have benefits for society? Alcohol leads to alcoholism (which I and many others have had), and weed leads to zero addiction. Tell me the logic of this in any way.
Welp, there goes my hopes of writing for the Economist one day! but I think the truth needs to be heard from a personal case study.
I agree with all your arguments but one. "Zero addiction" does not seem to hold true in all cases. As with any other drug, there will be non-users on one end of the spectrum and regular users on the other, with occasional users somewhere in the middle. My fear is that legalizing marijuana would lift this moral deterrent that does prevent part of the youth to engage in frequent use.
If this is true, is it desirable to feed the ranks of the frequent users? Being an occasional user myself, I know marijuana is not this evil product as sometimes depicted by its detractors. Still, smoking up is relaxing, to say the least, and generally does impair one's will to engage in "active" or "productive" occupations. Wouldn't we be guilty of engendering a culture of idleness, with less young people getting interested in their studies, for instance, as often happens with college smokers?
Now one could make the argument that, after all, an idle society is just another ugly word for a more "free & easy" society, rid of much of its negative tension and that obsession with productivity is not the answer to everything.
Yet, I am still having an internal struggle with this issue...
your argument lies on the assumption that people will smoke incessantly if marijuana is legal. You dont see students going to class drunk all the time. In the same way, most people will learn to use marijuana for relaxation and partying.
If legitimising cannabis use encourages consumption, how do you explain that the frequency of its use fell sharply in both the Netherlands and Portugal after they ended prohibition of it?
"My fear is that legalizing marijuana would lift this moral deterrent that does prevent part of the youth to engage in frequent use."
I think the impact on the youth would likely be reverse. Many young people in western countries use drugs to show other people how tough they are or to act rebellious and slightly dangerous. Legalization would reduce this.
On the other hand, legalization would lift the legal deterrence against regular use among adult professionals. I don't see a problem with this.
A very good case study is Kat (Qat). It's a root chewed by the Somali community in London. It's a medium stimulant, effects are similar to amphetamine. It's a male only habit and the men tend to swing from recreational users to those who chew all night sleep all day, do nothing productive and have a negative impact on their families.
However due to a legislative blip Kat is legal in the UK. You can by a bushel from the nice friendly bloke in the corner shop for less than 3 quid along with your milk and paper and that's you sorted for the weekend.
No one mugs for it, robs for it, burgles for it or pimps out their wives to buy it. You rarely find friendly corner shop blokes shooting each other over their turf, well because they are respectable business men not thugs.
So whilst the effects on the users and their is no worse than any comparable illegal drugs that are taken far more frequently, apart from no early morning wake up calls from the constabulary, you have none of the negative effects an illegal commodity that is profitable enough for suppliers to fight over.
The biggest mistake people make in this debate is believing the fallacy that if we legalise drugs then everyone will take them. This is nonsense, if this was the case, why is the entire youth of Britain not chewing kat? Or sniffing glue? They were both legal. Kat was illegal my entire teenage years. I never took it. I also never sniffed glue. I did do pot, speed E and coke. We need to get away from this idea that government endorsement has any effect on teenagers whatsoever. When I was offered my first puff on a joint aged 14 I was far more concerned about proving what a cool, slightly dangerous man of the world I was to the females present. At no point did I think "Hmm, now what would John Major do?"
I don't even buy the argument that decriminalisation of prostitution was a mistake. Just look at Thailand where prostitution of any kind is strictly illegal - the result is unconvincing.
The Economist citing Lil Wayne? That's almost as amazing as the peer viewed journal article I read a week ago that cited Wikipedia.
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Many of the big problems caused by illegal drugs for users and their communities are also linked to their enormous cost. There are for instance many, perhaps the vast majority of alcoholics, who function well in society. Their lives might be richer and better if they were not alcoholics, but this is not a problem that needs to or should be legislated against. And in the worst case scenario it is impossible to have a $100/day cheap vodka problem, and the companies that make and sell vodka are not suborning and killing many thousands a year.
With cocaine or whatever as it stands the problem is different. There are many functioning cocaine addicts, but for many the $100/day cost of their addiction has far greater negative effects on themselves, their families and their communities in terms of bankruptcy, theft, violence etc.
The problem with legalizing prostitution noted in the article is different in that there are three humans involved, the pimps, the prostitutes and the johns. Few or none are protesting because they think legalization has lead to more people buying sex and that buying more sex is causing problems. People think it has not worked well because it has lead to an upswing in human suffering on the part of the women who have been essentially enslaved, and so has in effect increased the problem it sought to solve.
With drug legalization you have the seller, the drugs, and the buyer. The only reasonable objection to legalizing drugs is that it will lead to an upswing in human suffering on the part of those who are or become addicted and their families, neighbors ect. The drugs don't suffer.
Personally I think that Obama's argument that legalizing drugs will increase the power of the drug barons and the problems that the trade causes in the countries that supply and transport the drugs is, as usual on this topic, abject BS. The barons buy their influence and the profits involved drive the murderous wars and official corruption. They are able to do this because a kilo of cocaine costs $10,000 or whatever, and not, as it would cost in a legal market, the price of a bottle of decent Cognac, for instance. Courvoisier and the other big cognac producers might be described as a cartel, but they are not sponsoring any alcohol wars and the systematic corruption of entire countries. They don't even drink much Cognac in France.
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LAHAINA CANNERY MALL. Hula show, 7 p.m. Thursday (tonight). Keiki hula show, 1 p.m.; Maui Toy Works Yu-Gi-Oh card session, 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Comedy and magic with Lauro Castillio, 11:30 a.m.; keiki hula show, 1 p.m.; yo-yo/skill toys demonstration and workshop, 4 to 5 p.m.; line dancing, 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Free ukulele lessons, 5:45 p.m.; hula show, 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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OLD LAHAINA CENTER. Keiki Polynesian Show, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Aloha Friday Hula Show, 3:30 p.m. Friday. Hale Kahiko, replica of an ancient Hawaiian village, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
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WHALERS VILLAGE, KAANAPALI. Hula lessons, 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday (today). Flower lei-making classes and demonstrations, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday and Tuesday. Live Polynesian hula and/or Tahitian dance shows, 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. Cultural hula lessons, noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday.
WHARF CINEMA CENTER. Live entertainment on center stage, 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Entertainment with Ron Hetteen on center stage, noon to 2 p.m. Saturday. On-site artisans and craftsmen at work, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Plantation Museum, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., upper level of The Wharf; admission is free.
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getting to union stationJun 16, 20132i'm arriving at T3H5 with AA; what's the nearest exit to a taxi and how do i get there? i checked ord maps, no clear way out will 1 hour from landing (hopefully on time) be enough to get to union station by cab (b4 morning rush hour)? thanks for guidancekostaFri, Jun 14In general, the taxi stand is right outside of the baggage claim level.sajun13Sat, Jun 15
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I have a feeling there's a healthy collection somewhere amongst members here. Have you hung on? Sold the entire collection?
I just played a French rock 7" that I've played many times...still cannot figure out whether it's a 45 or not.
I have a feeling there's a healthy collection somewhere amongst members here. Have you hung on? Sold the entire collection?
I just played a French rock 7" that I've played many times...still cannot figure out whether it's a 45 or not.
Wifey sold them in a Garage sale in the late 90s :-(
Fanboy of the Jester (AKA) James (Previously known as 11top)
Still have all my albums. About 250-300, from the late 60's till CDs hit the scene...
Built up quite a healthy collection, and growing all the time. Mostly new stuff, but some old hand-me-downs and record store finds in there too. Besides guitars, collecting vinyl is my other obsession. Spin 'em on a Rega RP3, can't recommend it enough!
Nice! I have a white Rega too. (And want a Starla and Mira) instant bros
Still have all my vinyl, including 45s. Then again, I still have my 8-tracks, too. Have a couple cabinets that are pretty much all vinyl (although some CD box set have infringed).
"I watched approximately 45 seconds of 'Rock Of Ages'. It was like getting punched in the soul." - Abby Krizner
I had (what some would consider) a record "habit" in the early to mid 70's. Collected over 700 albums during this time, never thinking that the vinyl format would someday be perceived as "old school" technology.
I still have my entire record collection.......packed away in boxes.
I have lots of classic rock on vinyl. My general theory is, if it was written with vinyl in mind, I prefer to listen to it that way.
I've still got most of my old stuff though several choice pieces (ex, original master recording of Dark Side of the Moon) disappeared sometime in the late 80's and 90's while it was stored at my mother's house. I've been adding a lot to the collection over the last few years.
It's kind of funny how many older albms are getting the reissue treatment, from the Beatles catalog and Pink Floyd, to stuff like Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine.
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Sales are up year after year, and for the record companies, vinyl is the only growth market out there for 'physical' music. And, they can still charge you for all 12 songs, as opposed to one or two with digital downloads. Plus, for people like me who are nuts about a lot of 90s music (which tends to be some of the highest $$ vinyl out there), the companies are making money again from catalogs they already own that really haven't produced revenue for them in years. When's the last time you think someone got excited to run out and pick up a copy of Mellon Collie? I'm guessing it's been a WHILE. Meanwhile, a $75 MC vinyl box set is gonna release in a week, probably to sell thousands of copies. (Myself being purchaser).
Actually Mellon Collie has always been very expensive. Original copies fetch up to 300.00. I'm glad that it's being reissued next week, I pre-ordered mine through Amazon for 40.00 Even though they're selling for a very high price it'll still probably sell pretty well I think.
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I've got most of my vinyl dating back to 1969 or so...but my son recently asked me to ship him some of his favorites, so I packed him a big box o' stuff he likes.
I work mainly in digital due to how the business has changed over the years, but I love listening to analog.
I don't even want to think about counting my LPs now, but the last time I did count them back in the mid 90's I had just under a thousand. It's probably around the same amount now, because for many years my main focus has been on CDs. I moved in 2007, and at that time just my music was good for almost two full loads in the bed of a fullsize '87 Dodge pickup. I had so many albums and CDs (and refused to part with any of them) that it was a constant bone of contention between the ex and myself.
Guess what side won out?!?!
When CDs first hit, I did what I suspect many others did; I bought duplicates of things I had on vinyl. I don't do much of that now, and haven't for years. Matter of fact, I don't buy anywhere near the music now that I did in the past because I simply can't afford it. But there was a time when the people at the music stores would welcome me at the door, go buy me a Coke, and start counting their sales in their heads. One of the big chains back then was Sound Warehouse, and a buddy of mine from high school worked in one here. I practically lived in that sucker. I cried when they closed down.
Totals? LPs = 900 to 1000; CDs = 2000 or so; Cassettes, 45s, Flexidiscs = 200ish
P.S. - Does anybody else remember those special edition Gold CDs? Used some sort of gold colored plating on the metal (supposedly real gold) instead of the silvery whatever? I loved those things. I swore they sounded better, like a step up the ladder between a CD and vinyl.
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