On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:31:24 -0800, "Rod & Betty Jo"
wrote:


"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
ink.net...
It has been announced that marijuana is America's largest cash crop, about
$35 billion yearly.

Roughly 1/3 of that comes from here in California.

Somehow, I'm missing something.

Think I have a lot of company, especially with people who are charged with
taking care of what are called illegal substance issues.

They certainly are missing something.

Lew

You ever consider the methodology used to come up with such figures? A WAG
or wild assed guess is most likely used here.... I don't recall a 300
million member audit on the subject lately. If my math is correct it comes
to $116.66 for every man, women and child in the country. Average heavy
users would fit a fairly narrow age range and a reasonably narrow slice of
that group would routinely use heavily to boot. Many pot heads are
reasonably easy to identify....they are often lazy and intellectually
shallow. When a life achievement revolves around ingesting a substance
things like ambition, achievement, learning and discipline fall by the
wayside....... Shall we conduct a WREC poll on how much "we" spend per year
on pot?.....zero here Rod

Yeah, but how much do "we" spend on booze, a much more mind rotting
drug than pot and probably more likely to result in lazy,
intellectually shallow, drunken slob-like behavior.

Dave Hall

(Who, by the way, spends zero dollars per year on either and doesn't
ingest either if offered for free)