i am going to try to answer all of your queries and a little more. weed prices are varied widely depending on the location, the demand, and quality as with anything. but in my opinion a gram (anywhere) of really good weed should be no more than $20 and a gram of really bad weed, no more than $5, however, that's not to say this is true everywhere or anywhere for that matter. demand or availability is another factor in the cost of weed. weed cost more, the less there is or the more people there are seeking it. also good weed is sometimes the only thing available which means the novice smoker will be paying more than what (s)he has to in order to get high, that's not to say that the high won't be better though.
for those of you who asked stupid questions about pipes and bongs- the usage and construction there of- you can find your answers by typing what ever your looking for into the google search engine, the result of which will be thousands of sources to research from that are much more helpful than any of the answers on this website
and i suggest you take advantage of these resources before you get taken advantage of
for the kid who asked about storing weed in a jar, i know that it can be stored for a fairly long time before losing any potency, and will last much longer this way than in a baggie. the trick is not to keep the air out but rather to keep it circulating and arid.
to those of you who condemn the consumption of marijuana i offer to you enlightenment for how can you condemn it when you know little to nothing about it?
one person claimed that weed use causes death, and while that is true in the respect that anything and everything causes one to die, i assume this person meant imminent death and that is, most certainly, not true
not only does weed not kill you immediately but i defy anyone to present evidence of any kind of death related to the inhalation or oral consumption of weed
it simply isn't there because WEED IS NOT DANGEROUS
and i scoff at weed being slandered as a "gateway drug", weed is not a drug at all it is a joke!
claiming that weed which is in no way physically addictive causes or even predicts the further trial of actual drugs is like claiming that me taking my first step would eventually lead to or predict me being a marathon runner
the only bad things about weed are the laws prohibiting it
and i am not even asking you to support it
just be educated on any subject before you make your mind up about it
P.S.
i would really love to know where "guy with answers" lives, where the weed is so cheap people can afford to smoke enough to forget how many grams are in an ounce. also why are all of you so god damned stupid? and that is not a rhetorical question, i'mreally interested.
P.P.S.
i want all of you naysayers to take a look at this article:
The high cost of marijuana prohibition in U.S.
This week, over 500 leading economists, led by conservative icon Dr. Milton Friedman, called for a national debate about whether prohibition of marijuana is worth the cost. The occasion was a new report by Harvard University economist Dr. Jeffrey Miron estimating - probably conservatively - that replacing prohibition with a system of common-sense regulation could mean $10 billion to $14 billion per year in reduced government spending and new revenues.
"We believe such a debate will favor a regime in which marijuana is legal but taxed and regulated like other goods," Friedman and colleagues wrote. "At a minimum, this debate will force advocates of current policy to show that prohibition has benefits sufficient to justify the cost to taxpayers, foregone tax revenues, and numerous ancillary consequences that result from marijuana prohibition."
Miron'sfull report and the open letter are available at www.prohibitioncosts.org .
A good case can be made that prohibition costs too much - in money, but also in ruined lives and harm done to society. But first, let's talk about dollars:
• Using figures from a variety of federal and state government sources, Miron estimates that replacing prohibition with regulation would save $7.7 billion annually in government spending on enforcement.
• Taxes on regulated marijuana sales could generate $2.4 billion if marijuana were taxed like ordinary consumer goods. If - as seems more likely - marijuana were taxed like alcohol and tobacco, tax receipts would be about $6.2 billion, and conceivably more, depending on the tax rate.
Such estimates, of course, aren't perfect. Available data is incomplete, so economists must make assumptions that could turn out to be either too high or too low.
Miron'snumbers may be conservative: He didn't attempt to quantify every possible saving, and in one major expense category - the number of inmates locked in state prisons on marijuana charges - the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy just released an estimate 60 percent higher than the one Miron used.
These are not trivial sums. In the words of the late Sen. Everett Dirksen, "A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, and soon you're talking about real money" - money that could be used to fix our schools, strengthen Social Security, or protect America against terrorism.
For example, the $30 billion cost of securing thousands of Soviet-era "loose nukes" - unsecured nuclear weapons that security experts fear might fall into terrorist hands - could be paid for in less than three years with the savings and revenues generated by marijuana regulation.
One year's savings alone would cover the full cost of port security measures required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002, estimated by the Coast Guard at $7.3 billion to secure 3,150 port facilities and 9,200 vessels.
What are we getting for the billions spent on marijuana prohibition? We certainly haven't gotten marijuana off the streets. Last year, 85.8 percent of high school seniors told government survey-takers that marijuana was "easy to get" - a figure that has remained virtually unchanged for three decades. While marijuana arrests nearly tripled form 1991to 2003 (the latest figures available), the number of teens trying marijuana for the first time went up by over 50 percent.
According to the federal government, nearly 15 million Americans use marijuana at least once a month. That's equal to every man, woman and child in the states of Oregon, Nebraska, Indiana and Oklahoma combined. It's nearly as many Americans as will buy a new car or truck this year. It's a huge market.
Prohibition cannot and will not make that market go away. It has simply given criminals and violent gangs an exclusive franchise, and society pays the price every day: In unregulated drug dealers with no incentive not to sell to kids, in clandestine grows hidden in national parks and surrounded by booby traps, in the bloodshed that inevitably comes with prohibition - just as it did during America's ill-fated experiment with alcohol prohibition during the 1920s.
These 500 economists are right: There might be a better way, and it's time to start talking about it.
__________________
Thomas J. Aveni, M.S.
Staff Member
The Police Policy Studies Council
P.P.P.S.
i am only 17 years old
so be ashamed of yourselves
|
