"The total weight of tobacco consumed globally in all smoking and smokeless tobacco products is about 6.5 x 10e9 kilograms per year."

That's 6.5 billion kg, or around 15 billion pounds, or about 7 million tons per year.

That works out to about 20,000 tons of tobacco consumed per day around the world.

I'll take a wild guess that there one ton of cannabis is consumed for every 100 tons of tobacco. That still makes world cannabis consumption 200 tons a day.

I was laughing so hard my gut hurts.

One more lesson which completely flies over the heads of the anti. They totally miss it. They can't grasp what this means. They simply can't comprehend the import.

Or, like so many of them, they do know what it means...and shriek their lies ever louder in hopes that they can distract the public from making the same realization.

Which is:

Somebody, somewhere, has lost what amounts to a drop in the bucket compared with the vast ocean of illicit cannabis that washes surreptitiously over every habitable continent on this world.

A 2.5 ton...drop...in the ocean.

One Hell of a good-sized drop, wouldn't you say? Yet, it's nothing compared to what's out there. Against that level of expendable volume, the antis simply haven't a chance. They are totally out-classed in this race, like being forced to wear lead shoes in a baton race.

Authorities Believe Shipments Came From Overseas

SENECA, S.C., 10:10 a.m. EDT June 26, 2001
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What if $9 million were dropped off at your doorstep?

That is exactly what happened to one Upstate family Monday, except that the bounty was in the form of marijuana.

A family near Seneca found almost $9 million dollars worth of pot on their front step Monday. In all, 63 bundles of marijuana were delivered in crates to the home, each one packed with more than $100,000 worth of the drug.

Oconee County Sheriff's investigators said that once the family realized what it was, they called deputies right away.

The drugs left authorities wondering where the shipment came from.

"I think it was just dropped at the wrong place, it was put in the wrong shipment and wound up in the wrong location. But we're checking into it to find out where it came from and where it was headed to," Oconee County sheriff James Singleton told News 4.

The sheriff said that the drugs arrived in a shipping crate, which leads him to believe it probably came from overseas.

Deputies have contacted the DEA to help them trace the shipment, and investigators were being cautions about the information they release because they don't they don't want to tip off possible suspects.

Really? Where?

I think the Kanadian cops are pretty much trying to cash in on the war before the drought (from profiteering on it's criminality). They are losing and figure that it's their last chance to turn a pretty penny.

FoM, I relate to the feelings of disgust in posting some articles. However, as much as it pets your peave and makes you want to scream .... it does that to those of us who read it, as well. In my fighting back against the WoD, I use such anger as my motivation to do something about it. From your posts I have received inspiration to fight the good fight and the motivation to endure the arduous task of, collectively, ridding this damned war once and for all.

I thank you greatly for the news, even the bad news ... both sides serve me purpose.

You have to wonder at the timing.

A few nights ago, on MSNBC, there was a story about anti-cannabis operations along the Canadian-US border between BC and Washington State. Much was made of the 'cooperation' extended to the relatively understaffed and under-resourced Canadian police forces by their US DrugWarrior counterparts. Of particular interest was the part about the use of night-vision equipment along the border; as if the Canadian border had surreptitiously become the Mexican one. The comparison of heavily armed narks scanning the bushes at night on the 49th Parallel and the same kind of thing going on along the Rio Grande was eerily familiar. What jars you out of complacency is one salient fact: for the last 5 years, the US has been operating as if the Canadian border was a hostile environment. Just like the Mexican border is considered.

Canadians are being asked questions that one might ask at a barricade somewhere in Beirut or Mogadishu. And when the answers are not to US liking, people who had travelled across the border for years are denied entry...practically for life.

Something I have never heard any Canadians ask of their government - and no American dare ask his is why are we treating long time friends like an piecemeal invasion by would be criminals?

However, the black market is still a black market, albeit a more open one. The cops can turn around and decide to harass the users and dealers when it becomes politically convenient to do so, and the stakes go back to what they were under an illegal drive. The "gray" market dealers who're less involved with criminals are less protected than the outright criminal elements who can usually afford to buy protection at the cop level. So the cops bust the less hardcore dealers, the more organized criminals stay in place, the price of pot goes up and the story goes on and on forever.

So , lets not settle for the wishy washy "decriminalization" solution that cops like so much (cause its discretionary, i.e. they can run the game). Lets LEGALIZE , REGULATE and TAX.

Hee hee!