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> Weed will soon clobber beer sales So why again what is scheduled as an illegal "flower" in the first place? If is we do not know the answer then lets look at

by cies 10y ago

> Weed will soon clobber beer sales So why again what is scheduled as an illegal "flower" in the first place? If is we do not know the answer then lets look at this question: who benefited all these years from tax money spend on cracking down on growing/trading/having/using this plant? Allow me to answer the last one: I think weed will be more popular the alcohol, and it will be heavily used as replacement for all kinds for "medicines".

xapata 10y ago
There's a long list. Prison companies, cotton industry, ...
- cies 10y ago
  Indeed, more beneficiaries.
jameskegel 10y ago
> replacement for .. "medicines" Completely? I'm afraid not. As a compliment to a complete regimen, then of course. I'm a card holder, but there are times where MJ and derivatives don't have the same benefits, long-bone pain being one. A sidenote: I'm laughing at the irony that one could grow a crop of opium poppies less conspicuously than a crop of MJ.
- rhcom2 10y ago
  Also a card holder and I'm very much looking forward to the movement into the mainstream so we can get rid of a lot of the hippish pseudoscience and actually have medical studies on the stuff.
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- cies 10y ago
  > Completely? No not completely. I do not expect weed to replace all pharmaceuticals.
- frankus 10y ago
  It isn't clear whether it's primarily "recreational" or medical opiod use, but apparently hospitalizations for opiod OD/dependence have gone down in states with legal MJ (source: http://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(17)30076-5/abstract http://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(1...).
Stranger43 10y ago
Maybe not alternative, the medical industry are in the process of converting the weed into several brands of pharmaceuticals based on extracts from the plants. I was kind of surprised by that when i heard it but apparently the process of productification of is far enough in places like Denmark that medical marijuana pretty much exclusively refers to extracts with limited psychoactive effects.
- cies 10y ago
  Great. But not very patentable like the rest of their offering.
joe_the_user 10y ago
Weed is extremely popular right now. Weed is big part of a lot of people's budget right now. With weed legal, the price will go down and I'm not sure if those people buying now are going buy so much more that their expenditure will rise - my guess is a lot of people may buy more but spend less. Which leaves more money for ... beer.

by cies 10y ago

xapata 10y ago

There's a long list. Prison companies, cotton industry, ...

cies 10y ago
Indeed, more beneficiaries.

jameskegel 10y ago

> replacement for .. "medicines" Completely? I'm afraid not. As a compliment to a complete regimen, then of course. I'm a card holder, but there are times where MJ and derivatives don't have the same benefits, long-bone pain being one. A sidenote: I'm laughing at the irony that one could grow a crop of opium poppies less conspicuously than a crop of MJ.

rhcom2 10y ago
Also a card holder and I'm very much looking forward to the movement into the mainstream so we can get rid of a lot of the hippish pseudoscience and actually have medical studies on the stuff.
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cies 10y ago
> Completely? No not completely. I do not expect weed to replace all pharmaceuticals.
frankus 10y ago
It isn't clear whether it's primarily "recreational" or medical opiod use, but apparently hospitalizations for opiod OD/dependence have gone down in states with legal MJ (source: http://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(17)30076-5/abstract http://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(1...).

Stranger43 10y ago

Maybe not alternative, the medical industry are in the process of converting the weed into several brands of pharmaceuticals based on extracts from the plants. I was kind of surprised by that when i heard it but apparently the process of productification of is far enough in places like Denmark that medical marijuana pretty much exclusively refers to extracts with limited psychoactive effects.

cies 10y ago
Great. But not very patentable like the rest of their offering.

joe_the_user 10y ago

Weed is extremely popular right now. Weed is big part of a lot of people's budget right now. With weed legal, the price will go down and I'm not sure if those people buying now are going buy so much more that their expenditure will rise - my guess is a lot of people may buy more but spend less. Which leaves more money for ... beer.