Booming Economy

[cowman]

Just got back from southern BC and business is booming. No shortage of money there!
You would not believe how the dope business makes the world go round out there. Kids driving $200,000 Porshes, old white haired hippies in Hummers! My relative took me up a mountain road and we stopped and got out. The whole area positively reeked of budding pot! He says the cops don't even try to do anything about it except in a token way! Said it is very hard for the local businesses to get anyone to work! Why work for $8/hr. when you can make a fortune growing dope!
I guess with that kind of money around it won't be long before the government moves in and tries to get some of this cash.

[rookie]

Who ever said young people of today lack ambition

[rookie]

Cowman
I call it the the ultimate security in diversification. If you get it grown and sold your all right and if not the government will keep you.
They say that pot is the number one in farm gate receipts in B.C. After the Solicitor General admitted to smoking when young I wouldn't be suprised to see if that is the reason Jean is staying on for another two years so that he can get it legalized so he doesn't have to keep bailing his son out of jail.

[rookie]

Cowman...After you get out of the cattle business perhaps you could investigate this new opportunity in diversification. When I lived in Red Deer many moons back, there was a booming market in pot and I presume that it still exists. In fact I grew a bit myself. It is not too hard to grow. Same methods that you use for **** or canola.

[rookie]

Somehow I just can't see myself in the pot business! But I can sure understand how it would be fairly appealing to a young guy who didn't have very much. Say some young kid with no education and no prospects. Comes out of school gets a crumby job and still gives a third of what he makes back to the government. Not much chance this young guy is ever going to own the flashy new car, have the high tech toys, own a house, have a family. One good crop and he has it all! And in the process he becomes a pretty fair horticulturist!
Meanwhile the old farmer is plowing around on 2000 acres of dirt, giving all his money to machinery dealers, fertilizer companies, fuel suppliers. The kid with 1/4 acre of dope makes 4 times the profit! Kind of makes you wonder if we are in the wrong business?

[rookie]

No wondering at all we are in the wrong business if your only goal is to make money. We all know that those nice little farmers will keep growing us food cheap and if not we will import it. Look what that attitude got the people of Afghanistan!!!!! Drugs and terrorist were the only way to make money in that country. Now they have another segment in their economy, the U.S. armed forces. The non farming segment of society had better take note because that is what will happen here, if things dont change quickly.

[rookie]

Kind of makes you wonder where are priorities are, heaven forbid if people had to pay 50 cents extra on a loaf of bread.

[pettie]

Oil companies wouldn't dare allow it to be legalized. It'd ruin 'em !

[rodbradshaw]

It is interesting the stir that the Senatate committee has caused with their decision to push for legalization of pot.
Do you suppose that farmers could get quota to grow pot just like the tobacco growers did? I was told that at one time their was no farming operation more lucrative than tobacco.

[wilagro]

Now where did I put that bag of seeds that were kicking around for years now that a new 'cash crop' is on the horizon. My sandy land should grow great pot.

[cowman]

I suspect once the government legalized it and got their greedy little hands on it, the profits would vanish for the grower. Consider how much the government rips off the tobbacco farmer.
Still if they just de-criminalize it might just enter a sort of gray area where it could be profitable! But you'd better hurry up because when the government starts making noise about "de-criminalizing or legalizing" you know they are getting greedy for the dope money! Lets see: They now have gambling, tobbacco, booze, control prostitution through the escort agency system, strippers and pornography. All the things organized crime used to have! And now they want drugs, too? The poor old Hells Angels are getting squeezed out of all the good stuff by our federal government!

[carebear300]

Cowman as enveloping as the federal government tried to be, the smart money will be bet on the Hell's Angels I would think.