Marijuana and Sustainability: How Green is Marijuana?

 

Marijuana growing  has recently gotten some bad press lately as drug cartels  have extensive environmentally degrading (and stealing nutrients) marijuana grows on federal land (parks). http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-raid-20110731,0,345889.story The operation also confiscated fertilizers, chemical pesticides and rat poison. With the aid of the U.S. Forest Service, 23 tons of trash and 22 miles of irrigation pipe were removed; 13 man-made dams remain to be dismantled.

“460,000 marijuana plants in and near the Mendocino National Forest are destroyed. The proliferation of such growing operations is destroying ecosystems and scaring hikers away, an official says.”

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The growing GREEN RUSH of medical marijuana is slowly becoming “mainstream,” –a real live tangible thing!  It is the most profitable cash crop, and they don’t even grow it by the acre.

The 21st century has brought many opportunities.  Many of them are “invisible” like the internet via information products,  services  rather than manufacturing products–this is the new century.   It exists but it hard to see from just one computer terminal, it takes some fore sight to see how these things really work.  And like many things not so obvious, many people don’t notice them.  Medical Marijuana is like that, it has its own culture, its somewhat underground, its controversial, its almost private.

The growing GREEN RUSH of medical marijuana is the same way, its hard to understand if you are not directly around it, or in a state where it is legal.  But growing and selling weed, is slowing becoming “visible,” a real live tangible thing!  It is the most profitable cash crop, and they don’t even grow it by the acre.

Every state that passes legislation, opens up a new market.  Currently illegalization is keeping it invisible–just out of reach of most people, unless they want to break the law.  So this new green rush of the marijuana business, especially medical marijuana (an estimated 30 Billion dollar business) is on the way, making people millionaires by growing and selling marijuana.

The way things are going, cultivating and supplying legal marijuana has got to be a growth industry in more ways than one; in fact, it has been labeled the green rush. a 30 billion dollar green rush.   If you’re wondering how to get in on this burgeoning “health care” sector you are not alone.  Whether you are a cancer survivor, or just can’t sleep you know the benefits of marijuana.  You have business opportunities galore.  You can cook with it, make edible products, you can smoke it, sell it by the gram, sell it by the pound, own a cafe and sell it in the back, own a dispensary and service 60-80 people per day, grow it and save money for yourself; the possibilities are endless.

Everyone talks about one big future industry will be healthcare, this is because in 2016 approximately 2,282,887 people will be turning seventy years of age in America, the next year 700,000 more annually and the baby boomers who are retiring will increase still.  Baby boomers will be looking for alternative and natural medicine, especially if they have had cancer or are medicating with powerful anti-cancer drugs.  So the potential for the Medical Marijuana to grow in future years is a real reality.

You can cash in on the green rush, Whether they own a business that produces cash, or you just grow for yourself. Either way you are producing something that will increase your quality of life, provide medicine to you and others, or add a little extra income.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is easy money, though.  Opening a medical cannabis dispensary is by no means straight-forward; neither is running one because, as far as federal law is concerned, marijuana – medical or not – is illegal, period.

As each state legalizes Medical marijuana, this opens up million dollar markets.  A slow green tide rushing in across the states, and the opportunity exists to cash in on it, help people, grow locally, become more earth friendly, and get Green! It is an estimated 30 Billion dollar market–so what are you waiting for?

 
By William M. Welchand Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — James Gray once saw himself as a drug warrior, a former federal prosecutor and county judge who sent people to prison for dealing pot and other drug offenses. Gradually, though, he became convinced that the ban on marijuana was making it more accessible to young people, not less.

“I ask kids all the time, and they’ll tell you it is easier to get marijuana than a six-pack of beer because that is controlled by the government,” he said, noting that drug dealers don’t ask for IDs or honor minimum age requirements.

So Gray — who spent two decades as a superior court judge in Orange County, Calif., and once ran for Congress as a Republican— switched sides in the war on drugs, becoming an advocate for legalizing marijuana.

“Let’s face reality,” he says. “Taxing and regulating marijuana will make it less available to children than it is today.”


ATTITUDES SHIFT: Marijuana classes role

Gray is part of a growing national movement to rethink pot laws. From California, where lawmakers may outright legalize marijuana, to New Jersey, which implemented a medical use law Jan. 19, states are taking unprecedented steps to loosen marijuana restrictions. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say generational, political and cultural shifts have taken the USA to a unique moment in its history of drug prohibition that could topple 40 years of tough restrictions on both medicinal and recreational marijuana use.

A Gallup Poll last October found 44% favor making marijuana legal, an eight-point jump since the question was asked in 2005. An ABC News-Washington Post poll in January found 81% favor making marijuana legal for medical use.

Attorney General Eric Holder last fall announced that raiding medical marijuana facilities would be the lowest priority for U.S. law enforcement agents — a major shift that is spurring many states to re-examine their policies. The American Medical Association recommended in November that Congress reclassify marijuana as a drug with possible medicinal benefit.


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Looks like a bottle of eye drops in your pee can save you and neutralize any THC, so there is nothing to detect.

Here’s a new article from WebMD

Drug-Test Cheats Try New Tricks on Labs
Experts Say Internet and Household Products Bring New Challenges to Drug Testing
By Todd Zwillich WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
July 28, 2008 –

Vinegar. Lemon juice. Drain-cleaning products. At least one of these items is probably in your kitchen. And any of them can be used to beat a drug test.

For about 20 years, people have been using a long list of very ordinary household items to confuse prospective employers and drug labs hoping to catch them in the act of using or abusing illegal drugs.

Add to the list laundry detergent, baking soda, and ordinary salt.

“Does it work? Yes, it does,” says Amitava Dasgupta, PhD, a professor of pathology and drug testing expert from the University of Texas-Houston Medical Center. “It’s a cat and mouse game.”

Employer drug testing became popular in the late 1980s after President Ronald Reagan instituted drug testing as a requirement for federal jobs. Lots of private companies followed suit, and today thousands run drug tests on people applying for jobs.

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Why get a card? State laws requires that you must have a valid Medical Marijuana Card. A Medical Marijuana Card will protect you against citations and prison.

Visiting informative Medical Marijuana sites such as www.norml.org, www.mcsocal.com and www.safeaccessnow.org will help you get informed and make an educated decision on Medical Marijuana.

Visit your personal physician to have them provide you with your medical records.  Then, locate a Medical Marijuana Clinic i.e a Marijuana Doctor.  There are many clinics that do not adhere properly to State laws. It is important to locate a clinic that is professional and reputable because your Medical Marijuana card can be found invalid if the Medical Marijuana Physician’s license is revoked.

Often times not being able to sleep will be enough for medical marijuana.

You will need to provide a valid drivers license and your medical records during the visit. Upon approval, the Physician will issue you a one year long recommendation for Medical Marijuana. The cost for the visit and Medical Marijuana Card is usually $100.00-$175.00.

Now you are covered and ready for the WEED business.


 

For Entrepreneurs realizing there is a fortune to be made in medical marijuana.

You might want to travel out to California for a basic seminar course taught by Oaksterdam University.  This is a serious course to be taken by people wanting an immersion course in the art of selling weed, or the Cannabusiness, or The WEED Business!

Topics covered in the Basic Seminar

The Basic Seminar is suited best for students who are traveling from out of town, or who cannot meet regularly during the week. The Basic Seminar takes place over a Saturday and Sunday, totaling roughly 12 hours of instruction. Students who choose to attend the Semester Course can potentially achieve:

Basic 101 Weekend Classic Course
Attend all classes and pass the final exam.

Certificate of Achievement
Attend all classes, and attain Class Valedictorian by turning in your test within two weeks and achieve the highest score on the final exam among your class peers.

Legal 5501 Federal Vs State Law
An important introduction to the legal issues surrounding medical cannabis and the cannabis industry. Learn about the laws that govern cannabis distribution, cultivation, possession, and consumption for adults and medical patients. Have your questions answered by prominent cannabis lawyers. What’s the difference between state & federal law and what does that mean for you? Learn how to behave safely and responsibly under California Law.

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From a panel at Seattle’s 2009 Hempfest

  • hemp in north dakota is not legal yet, only a Senator is allowed to grow it.
  • 360 million hemp market vs. 30Billion medical marijuana and legalization of marijuana.
  • adaptable to the mid-west and farmers of all kinds.
 

Its about time we take away the power that the drug cartels have by removing the black market. I mean who likes to deal with shady people just to get weed. Bottom line, prohibition does not work.

Why tax and regulate?

1. revenue–excise tax, corporations tax (dispensary), state sales tax, state income tax

2. savings–law enforcement savings

3. environment–no more national forest for grow ops, they want remote areas because it is illegal in the city, allow people to grow it, and the need for these remote, destructive locations becomes obsolete.

4. sound public policy that supports public opinion

California Television Ad for Taxation and Regulation of Marijuana Sales.

Potential 6.2 Billion Dollars of Revenue, Prohibition doesn’t work–people smoke weed.

Raising City Revenue by Ending the ‘Wasteful War on Drugs’

Every year California spends $150 million to arrest, prosecute and imprison marijuana offenders. It makes more economic sense to raise money by taxing and regulating the adult use of marijuana, instead of spending money to criminalize it. Revenue raised will help pay for vital city services like schools, libraries, and health care. If adopted statewide, revenues raised could be up to $2.5 billion.

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What is the 10th US Constitutional Amendment, in theBill of Rights?

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

What is the meaning of this Amendment in the Bill of rights, is it saying that  any powers not specifically laid out in the Constitution do not apply for the states?

It is commonly understood that originally the Bill of Rights was not intended to apply to the states; however, there is no such limit in the text itself, except where an amendment refers specifically to the federal government. wikipedia

Does State Right’s still exist?

Yes, unfortuneately the venacular use of the phrase state’s rights is tied up with Jim Crowe laws of the days of segregation.  States have the rights to make their own laws and govern themselves.

Do State marijuana laws trump the Federal Marijuana Laws?

It’s now settled that state law enforcement officers cannot arrest medical marijuana patients or seize their medicine simply because they prefer the contrary federal law,” said Joe Elford, Chief Counsel with Americans for Safe Access (ASA)

local cops won’t arrest people for possession of medical marijuana, but we still have to worry about federal agents, particularly DEA agents, doing drug raids within the state.

For a local cop state laws > federal laws. So basically if your in California and you got a medical card and you get pulled over with bud in your car and as long as your aren’t smoking while driving the local cop cannot seize your medical bud.

Beyond California

Beyond California, the message should now be clear that hiding behind federal law is no longer a legitimate position to take when considering state-level medical marijuana laws.

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