Anyway, you’re spouting the same big tobacco, Walmart, Monsanto, anti-business, anti-regulation crap I’ve addressed a thousand times before.

#1 – No big corporate entity – Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Phillip Morris, et al, will touch commercial marijuana production so long as marijuana is federally illegal. If they do, Dept of Justice will have them in court on a massive federal conspiracy to traffic in Schedule I substances – if it’s over 60,000 kg, it’s the death penalty! More likely the feds in court would just seize their billions in assets.

#2 – Terminator seeds, really? Monsanto is going to wipe out all natural hemp seeds stashed by a 300 million pot smokers worldwide and we’ll only be able to buy single-harvest seeds from them? Then why hasn’t the feds helped them do that already? Wouldn’t that solve the gov’t's pot problem?

#3 – Fees, inspections, insurance, rent… gee, welcome to Commerce 101. You’re listing the requirements of every other legitimate businessman.

#4 – “Big Marijuana” will wipe out the little guy… yeah, like Budweiser, Coors, and Miller have wiped out all microbrews and home brewing in America.

#5 – Kids introduction to marijuana? You realize there are 1,000,000 teenage dealers NOW, that 85% of high school seniors say it’s easier to get NOW than alcohol, that 25% can get a bag in less than an hour NOW, and the average age of first initiation has dropped to 17 years old NOW (while tobacco use has dropped in half among teens)? And you think they’ll have an easier time when consumers are ID carded for marijuana in an adults-only store?

What types of honors and awards you’d gotten? The ones you can print out? Maybe the company that gave it to you just want to motivate you so that you can work your ass out for wages below par. Awards and honors are for kids, real awards are called bonus.

Get it right.

You are already seeing big business taking over and developing plans to get these products out to market. Soon… they will patent strains preventing others from entering the market. Don’t tell me this is not true, look up Monsanto corporation. They’ve created self-destructive seeds, preventing growers from saving or producing their own seeds.

This will cause the people to be dependent on big business for their marijuana needs. The process of eliminating small business is simple. It’s the Walmart business model. Make contracts with vendors such as chemicals producers to give large discount and then undercut their competitors by selling their product below market value to the point where all their competitors have to close up shop.

Pot regulations will be strictly enforced, and any small time growers will have to now buy a personal growers permit and having to pay a yearly fee along with paying the Fire Marshall yearly fee for inspection. The small time growers will also have to pay high insurance cost for operating, due to it being a high “security risk”.

So here is the cost if this bill “prop 19″ passes: for medium size growers.
Cost of growing: ———————————————————
Pay yearly fee for a growing permit.
Pay yearly fee for Fire Marshall inspection.
Pay high insurance cost for growing marijuana
Pay higher rent because the homeowner now wants you pay a premium for growing

Note: the cost of production such as lights, chemicals, pots, and other materials will most likely cost the same but for you to grow your own and smoke, it will be cheaper for you to just buy it from big business. If you’re a mid-size grower and wanting to make some money…. you will have to pay everything listed and have to pay yearly incorporated tax, sales tax, among many many other taxes.

Big business model is to first pass the bill and then slowly but surely eliminate mid-size growers by implementing strategic business models along with strict regulations that only big business can afford to pay.

After eliminating all of their competitors, big business will then start patenting strains and introduce smokers to new chemicals that will get people hooked. Just look to history and you can see it bright as day. Big tobacco did it, now it’s marijuana.

For the record i smoke pot,dont grow,dont do any drugs,and am a father and a responsible person in society.

(For those who shudder at me approving this comment: Excuse me. But sometimes I just have to expose the haters to the harsh disinfectant of sunlight. THIS is the true reason marijuana is prohibited – morality. I’ll bet you twenty bucks this guy has no issue with breaking open a case of beer on the weekend while he beats his wife and watches NASCAR…)

Marijuana would help the California economy with bringing in tax revenue and with the state making more money, they will not have to make as many cuts to areas such as education which is crippling our future since many students cannot afford the outrageous hikes on tuition. Also, the state would not have to spend as much money enforcing marijuana laws and paying for prisoners guilty of nonviolent crimes such as marijuana possession.

Legalizing marijuana would also hurt the Mexican drug cartels income since those without medical marijuana cards would not have to purchase their herb illegally.

Think about how a change in one law can affect the world in a positive way. Yes on AB 390!