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Originally posted by Q5echo yeah but thats hemp. please tell me you can make the distinction. >link<

There is no distinction.

Or do you think that people in the past were so naive that they grew this plant and never utilized it for psychoactive uses?

I think perhaps part of the reason it even effects us the way it does could be because of its widespread use having a symbiotic evolutionary effect. It was around us all the time, afterall. Just theory though.

Thanks for the link, good stuff, nice to see someone speaking up for the will of the people.

"Because I finally got to the point where I think I can get away with it," explained Frank

HOLY SHIT AN HONEST STATEMENT FROM A POLITICIAN! : DIES :

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Originally posted by Q5echo my thoughts? Barney Frank is about to propose legislation to decriminalize marijuana. i shutter to think what consequences his plans for regulating multi-trillion dollar financial markets would entail.

So how do you connect the issue decriminalization of marijuana to financial markets? That's a great leap to assume because someone supports decriminalization of marijuana, they must be a currupt official. I really don't understand your logic. Frank wants to deregulate a victimless crime, but when he also wants to regulate an activity which does have a victim (predatory lending), you "shutter". What is this obssession with cannibis prohibition you seem to have?

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at the same time investors are trying to predict what markets will do the next quarter to 6 months, now they have to speculate on what the regulators are going to do or want to do and i can see how that would drive an investor up a wall.

Yes, but a democratic presidency does not guarentee economic stagnation. Let's not forget who it is currently running this country's finances into the ground.

"Reagan proved deficits don't matter." -Dick Cheney; 'The Price of Loyalty' quoted former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

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if you need to give these behemoth banks some breathing room, do it. let the markets take a hit. adjust, then see where we are in 6 months. lets just hold off on wrapping ourselves up in knee-jerk regulation until then. thats my plan and i'm sticking to it.

So how do we prevent the subprime mortgage bubble without legislating regulations against it in the future. I don't understand.

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Originally posted by Q5echo yeah but thats hemp. please tell me you can make the distinction.

Can you or any other drug war cheerleaders for that matter? Both are illegal.

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Originally posted by Krypton So how do you connect the issue decriminalization of marijuana to financial markets?

i'm not really. take a pill.

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Yes, but a democratic presidency does not guarentee economic stagnation. Let's not forget who it is currently running this country's finances into the ground.

sure but thats not saying much. a Democrat Presidency combined with a Democrat controlled Congress, though, sure does increase those odds IMO.

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So how do we prevent the subprime mortgage bubble without legislating regulations against it in the future.

lessons learned?

hell i don't know, who says i'm completely against any kind of regulation? i didn't.

what can the Fed Gov. do in the short term free up capital and lesson the effects long term? whatever they can do i say have at it.

the markets are fluid. i say let the regulators be fluid as well. if temporary regulations or fixes can be administered as the markets and banks learn to deal with the effects on their own as opposed heavy handed draconian measures brought down by the Fed Government then lets give that a shot.

i'm not even saying these are things that Democrats on their own would be doing but lets try to tread lightly on what seems to be a tenuous time for the markets.

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Originally posted by Krypton Can you or any other drug war cheerleaders for that matter?

yes.

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Both are illegal.

WRONG. ffs get a clue before you talk to me please. industrial hemp is completely legal for sale or import in any quantity in any of it's many forms and uses.

you just can't grow it here...these are what big people call, DI-STINC-TIONS

look i don't care man. go throw a frisbee or something, jeez.

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Originally posted by Q5echo WRONG. ffs get a clue before you talk to me please. industrial hemp is completely legal for sale or import in any quantity in any of it's many forms and uses. you just can't grow it here...these are what big people call, DI-STINC-TIONS look i don't care man. go throw a frisbee or something, jeez.

LOL, ok, I did my research. Hemp is now distinguished from "marijuana". Great...

Still haven't heard a justification for criminalizing victimless crimes like smoking cannibis...

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