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Marco doesn't use 120 grams per day. I'd pay to see him actually consume that much.

Sure he uses it for pain/medication but he sells the majority of his supply to MedCannAccess or Calm for his own profit. This is the business of marijuana.

This is also you making a very big accusation that you might want to think about and possibly apologize to Marco for.

You are speculating about a persons own personal medical need and then accusing them of being criminal.

I am also not sure what would be so exciting about seeing someone medicate all day long? Do you think they perform funny tricks in the middle of the day or that their lives are so exciting that it would be worth money to see someone relieve themselves of their daily suffering.

I know of many people who have very high daily limits and they are not behaving in any way that would warrant being the subject of an audience or being accused of profiteering.

People are using cannabis medicine in a wide variety of ways these days from lotions and salves to cookies and tinctures. All these methods require large amounts of the base ingredient and just because someone is providing for themselves it does not mean they are automatically engaged in criminal behaviour.


cannagirl

I completely agree cannagirl, this is very true, I myself am capable of consuming my entire 18g/day in smoke alone, but I don't, I use it in other forms when possible as well.

I believe that anyone who says "Anyone with a limit that high has to be selling it" would they themselves, sell it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be in their mind that that is what's happening.

And for anyone who says "18g/day smoke? are you retarded, must be if your smoking 18/day" Trust me, how much you consume plays no roll in really anything except how tired you might get.

I recently had a full on psychiatric evaluation. This determined my logic, reasoning, and visual memory above the 84th percentile, with my visual memory leading the way @ above the 98th percentile. Cannabis does not make you stupid, or really slow for that matter, it makes SOME people stupid, and ALOT of people slow, but it does NOT do this to everyone.

My verbal memory however, and reading comprehension is only above the 46th percentile, but has been an issue as far back as I can remember (age 2)

"I myself am capable of consuming my entire 18g/day in smoke alone, but I don't, I use it in other forms when possible as well."

18 is a lot smaller than 120. 18 is, like, an order of magnitude less. So imagine smoking ten joints for every joint you smoke to use your 18, and that' using 120 a day. It's not impossible---but it's questionable what is going on.

What I suspect is going on is that some patients have high recommendations. They are growing extra marihuana, either due to having obtained larger recommendations expressly to do so, or by being able to grow more than necessary for their own use within the plant limit dictated by their wholly personal usage amount.

That this marihuana is being sold to compassion clubs/dispensaries which retail it to generate money that is being used to lobby the federal government to alter the federal marihuana program, such that the dispensaries and their growers will be protected, it becomes clear that only some MMAR growers are going to be losing their status: the ones who played by the rules.

Just speculation---it will never be proved one way or another.

A 120g ATP allows for 600 indoor plants. I do wonder how someone maintains 600 indoor plants, and has time to work a straight job, in order to pay for the amazing amounts of electricity that will cost. Does one with a 120g ATP have 600 indoor plants? Who knows. If he does, tho, I think it is beyond insulting to suggest he doesn't cut down five or ten every harvest for some easy grocery money, if nothing else. Or maybe his straight job that lights a 600 plant grow keeps such a one flush with grocery money?

Really, I am curious what is going on---I haven't heard of any judicial decisions that MMAR crops are being diverted, so I can only infer that the real issue is ridiculously large licenses given by copacetic doctors.

Not that I am one to stir up controversy---as far as I am aware, marihuana is a vegetable and those bad soldiers who take it from us are robbers, so I see all of these grams/day limits, the profiteering, etc. etc. as a seriously upsetting situation.

'Marijuana' is not a vegetable. It's a weed. Eating or juicing something does not change what it is...

"'Marijuana' is not a vegetable. It's a weed. Eating or juicing something does not change what it is..."

I was saying that well before these juicing people came around---and so have others around here. And whether or not it is currently the case, I believe at one time our ancient laws protected vegetables and all other crops we grow:

"26. Si quis damnum intulerit alterius vineae vel agro, vel alicui ejus terrae compenfet ficut quis estimet.

26. If anyone brings damage to crops or farm of another, or to any of his lands may he pay such as that he may estimate" (Laws of King Alfred)

I think cannabis is within the ambit of "agro", possibly even "vinae." That's my opinion. You're free to think it is whatever it is you think it is.

Anyway, what do you have invested in marihuana being a 'weed' and not a 'vegetable'?

I really get disgusted with people who try to promote that cannabis is "just a weed" when its the MOST CULTIVATED PLANT IN HUMAN HISTory.

Just a weed is pure government Propaganda, try not for fall for lies, folks.

If it's "just a weed" why are people in jail over it?

Keith Richards - "I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police."