Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 23, 2013

Watch, the whole cast will wind up out there, working for the Z-guys.

If the American Dream is chasing them, I can’t wait to see what happens when it catches them !

This particular American Dream that’s chasing them…it wouldn’t be manned by a couple of guys in white coats now would it?

The ‘Bajillionaire’ part might be awkward, since legality sucks the ‘forbidden fruit’ flavor out of many things, just like in the ’20s and ’30s with (alcohol) Prohibition. It did corrupt police, courts, and politicians, just as now, and took a while to repair the damage. We should look forward to the same, if maybe streamlined by the experience.

Can’t wait until they legalize meth.

Free Market Capitalism, it’s the American way….rpmurray, the “Slippery Slope” is a myth…..

Take Dorothy and Toto, too.

they’ll be in a high max security pen when they get “caught” by this American Dream. the Prison, Pharma, Police complex is chasing after them. and the money is endless. for the complex, not Z.

legalization is not going to happen for a long, long, long, long, long time. .lol

>> there will never be legalization…

It’ll be interesting to see how the Feds respond to Colorado moving forward with its legalization. They seem to be sitting on the sidelines. Also, to see whether other states follow Colorado and Washington.

Hemp (marijuana plant) was made illegal in the U.S. by the efforts of the powerful logging lobbyists back in 1937. Hemp was being touted as a cheap and renewable alternative fiber source to make rope and clothing.

If logging slows way down, then hemp may look more attractive to the greedy businesses as a lucrative fiber source.

I bet a deal is in the works for the tobacco companies to handle distribution, in exchange for finally giving up cigarettes.

Joanie has to go to work. Someone has to support the gang.

Yes, the Mob is definitely making a killing off bootleg now.

Jeeze, have any of you hemp touters actually used hemp products in any real quantity? Yes, hemp makes great ropes (though even there nylon and other synthetics have their advantages.) However, hemp is not a great substitute for cotton, hemp cloth being much more coarse. Hemp could be used for particleboards, but even there wood particleboards have an edge – and neither is a real substitute for a solid wood two-by-four (as many homeowners have discovered some time after the builders departed.)`Yes, the federal government imposing a “reefer madness” hemp tax in the 1930’s didn’t help the hemp industry (such as it was,) but I hold the fact that other products proved superior and/or cheaper to process had more to do with hemp falling out of favor.

Hemp was more useful than just a cotton replacement. And I’m talking about Hemp, not the weed that’s talked about here. Two different plants. It threatened the oil industry as well. So three large industries, logging, cotton, and oil, took an active part in making sure ALL plants were made illegal, even though no one smokes Hemp. This still holds true today. The US is one of the only industrialized countries to ban Hemp. Isn’t lobbying a wonderful thing?

A major farmer in eastern Colorado has been lobbying for hemp’s legalization for years, and he is definitely moving forward now. He’s in touch with longtime Canadian growers (Canada being our major source of hemp products, apparently) and has done all the research to back up the business plan he has formulated. I’m not a marijuana consumer, but I definitely look forward to the introduction of hemp farming – and the resulting manufacturing – here.

Re: panel #2. When did grow become a noun? or was it supposed to be grove? If it’s correctly written, what is a grow?

Boy, did you nail that! And that’s why it’s better to ignore certain people. Even negative attention is attention, and that’s all they crave. If you ignore them they’ll go look for someone else to aggravate.

You’ll have no interest in chasing anything, trust me, nothing at all.

So, here we are, a week and a half into the road trip and they haven’t left home yet; but it has sparked some scintillating discussions on travel directions and the uses of hemp. This is what I feared (early) last week. Excuse me while I go take a nap.

Seems to be quite the online market for Cannabis seed sale.

If pot were legal, pot farmers would earn about as much as (say) tobacco farmers. Legalized pot will retail for a lot less than today’s prices for the illegal stuff, and most of that price will be taxes collected by various levels of government (just as taxes account for most of the price of alcohol and tobacco products). Governments, not producers will collect the bajillions. The distribution chain will take most of the rest.

@mabrndt“grow” is pretty frequently used as a noun by pot growers, meaning “pot growing operation”. pot growers not mostly being culturally inclined to formality. ;-)

Unfortunately, to some people (not the left) facts are irrelevant; they just keep spewing lies and say “See, I have the truth.”

Holy blast from the past!

Troll alert.