Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's going to be a bit like CV squeezing out the profit margin of Leica, to bring this post back to a little bit on topic... (strrrrrreeeetttttchhhhh) On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > John Nebel wrote: > > >Isn't California thinking of this and the growers are against it? > > > >Doug Herr wrote: > >> John Nebel wrote: > >> > >>> Sighted in town: > >>> > >>> http://photos.csd.net//cannabis_01.html > >> > >> Are you in California? > >> > > > > California has had a 'medical marijuana' law on the books for a few years. > 99% of it is a farce. To get a prescription you pay $250 for 15 minutes > with an MD who "specializes in herbal prescriptions", tell him what ails > you, and he writes the prescription. Based on what wafts over the property > line nearly every evening, my next-door neighbor must be very sick. The > "herbal prescriptionists" love it! $1,000/hr, no insurance hassles, > essentially no overhead, all legal. > > There has been a lot of discussion lately about legalizing and regulating > weed in the state. Much of the incentive has been the potential tax > revenue, which the state is very short of. Personally, I have no interest > in the stuff, but I don't see that it's the government's business what > people do to themselves. Growers on the north coast (especially Humboldt > County, where growing weed is a big industry) are concerned that > legalization will cause prices to fall. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]