subject: Why Cannabis Has Become One Of The Most Expensive Cash Crops. [print this page] If you are fortunate enough to live in a country where it is legal to plant and cultivate Cannabis then the green fingered entrepreneur can take advantage of what has become quite a lucrative market. What other cash crop grown in our blessed earth can pay nearly 5,000 per Kilo? Considering that many marijuana strains can produce 500g per square meter plus, then it is not difficult to understand why the number of secret gardens being created has shot up over the past few years. A big factor in this has got be prohibition. But how can this work? By making something illegal can in many cases only intensify peoples interest in it. Did prohibition of alcohol in the USA stop people wanting to drink alcohol? No it just made people more devious in their efforts to procure it! The market was driven 'underground' where the criminal elements thrive and boy did they thrive!
The same seems to be happening with the prohibition of cannabis. Every other week I am hearing of 'gangs' having their secret gardens raided. If the money involved wasn't attractive to the criminal element then there would be no interest. By allowing people to 'grow their own' as it where then there would be no need for people to try and fulfill their needs by having to associate with the criminal fraternity. The demand would decrease and therfore the price, making it unattractive to organised crime.
So why is it a 'controlled substance'? What is so bad about it? What are the dangers? More to the point what are the benefits? One of the main issues regarding the smoking cannabis has got to be health. Setting fire to anything and inhaling the fumes cannot be beneficial to our bodies in general. How often do we hear about the ill effects of smoking tobacco and yet it is not illegal. The experts say it will surely kill us but the authorities say its still ok to manufacture it and for us to buy it. Is that because the authorities care about our health? Well obviously not. So why are they so concerned that we shouldn't smoke cannabis?
In the UK recently (2010) even the governments drug experts have said cannabis is not a lethal drug when compared to tobacco and alcohol and should be decriminalized. Now lets not forget these are the experts that the government employ to give them sound advice. Well the experts gave the government sound advice and what happened next.....they got sacked for giving advice the government did not want to acknowledge.
So on the one hand we have a substance thats use seems to be on the increase and becoming more and more popular amongst the younger generations, has enjoyed a steady growth in the past 30 years, has had NO RECORDABLE DEATHS due to its use or even its misuse and yet is still the subject of periodic debate of whether it is good or bad for us.
In the mean time, green fingered growers seem to be cashing in on its prohibition and popularity. So while the debate goes on I suggest everyone who wants to have an informed opinion on this subject go and have a big fat joint (obviously in a place that allows it!) and make your own mind up!
I would love to hear your opinions on this subject both for and against, backed up with experience (or not). Lets keep the debate alive until the authorities wake up once and for all. Personally I am pro, having 25 years plus years experience in this area....but WTF do i know......anyone got any skins!
by: Stealth Monkey
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