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Anyone can grow marijuana (it's called "weed" for a reason) but our punitive justice system does a decent job of discouraging most people. We don't have to proh
by minikites 6y ago
Anyone can grow marijuana (it's called "weed" for a reason) but our punitive justice system does a decent job of discouraging most people. We don't have to prohibit alcohol completely to blunt most of the large scale social and health problems it causes.
- cashewchoo 6y agoI do think alcohol is qualitatively different in how easy is it to make, though. For MJ you need specific seeds, which you can't just buy at target. Whereas with a google search and a quick trip to the grocery store you're better equipped to make moonshine than the best shiners of prohibition.
- cogman10 6y agoBig difference is how easy it is to spot weed growers vs fermenters. Fermentation simply requires a warm dark place to take place (the darker the better). Which means you can EASILY ferment a lot of alcohol with very little input. Weed, on the other hand, is a plant. Plants need light and water (and quite a bit of it). This is why weed gets busted so frequently. Small scale is harder to detect, but large scale weed growth has a BUNCH of tell tale signs.
- QuercusMax 6y agoFermentation is also pretty quick - if you know what you're doing, you can turn around a very tasty 5% beer in a week. Growing cannabis requires months, plus time to cure.
- GordonS 6y ago> Plants need light and water (and quite a bit of it) Cannabis plants are also rather... fragrant. Large illicit grows often have a duct and fan system to try to deal with it.