Pot Grower to DEA

[DrBloodmoney]

I like this little letter to the DEA from a commercial marijuana grower:

I have a blunt message for the Drug Enforcement Administration: I grow marijuana for profit in the United States, you can't stop me, and you are ignorant fools.

I want to make sure I explain my message to the DEA clearly and in detail. One reason is that the DEA people appear to be intellectually deficient, so I have to design my message so that it could be understood even by a child.

Another reason is that my message to the DEA is directly related to the arrest of Marc Emery for selling marijuana seeds to Americans.

Firstly, the issue of growing marijuana for money.

I started growing in 1996 because I was tired of paying street prices for schwag of questionable origin. High prices and lack of quality are a direct result of the war on drugs, which limits supply and makes it harder to get good weed.

My first garden was sprouted from seeds that were in a bag of pot I bought. The DEA seems to think it's hard to get marijuana seeds unless you order them from Marc Emery, but marijuana seeds are everywhere, and have been for many years before Marc Emery began selling them.

Emery is one of hundreds of international marijuana seed brokers who are part of a network of thousands of marijuana seed collectors, breeders, and producers.

If the DEA really wants to interfere with the ability of its citizens to grow marijuana from seed, it is going to have to do a lot more than bust Marc Emery. It's going to have to bust hundreds of thousands of people.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4493.html

[FloridaPat]

1. This is easy. Here's how you get rid of marijuana:

Give the seeds to Monsanto. Monsanto produces a spliced marijuana plant and has the patent on it. Monsanto gives the seeds away free the first year, so now everyone is growing the new plant. Monsanto says they have to buy the specials seeds every year. So now we're regulating marijuana and if anyone uses last years seeds Monsanto can go after them and sue them for everything they own.

[nuxvomica]

2. Weird. I had a similar thought today.

I was thinking that marijuana would definitely be legalized if Monsanto figured out a way to patent it. Besides buying legalization with hefty campaign contributions, they would spend millions in PR to get the general public to accept the idea. Weird that we both thought of Monsanto... or maybe not. Hmmmm.

[left hand man]

4. I have farmed all my life and I understand your Monsanto references

But you need to remember that they pulled out of South America because they could not defend their Soybean patent--let them try to defend such a patent ANYWHERE---- since marijuana could (and is) grown without herbicides Monsanto is a moot point.
I do appreciate that there are other people out there that recognize what companies like Monsanto do.

[Fly by night]

5. The best way to reduce marijuana production is to legalize hemp production

Since hemp is virtually THC-free, its pollen (which would be ever-present in the air of hemp-producing states) would both prevent or disrupt sinsemella production and gradually weaken the quality of the resulting seeds produced by THC-rich strains.

[High Plains]

7. Keep your hemp fields away from our pot fields!

[sweetheart]

3. Maybe its the sin taxes

When you buy a pack of fags (cigarettes), or a bottle of whiskey, you
pay a significant tax to subsidize the public costs of using said
chemicals. Maybe they are pissed off because they can't get their
sin tax except by attacking drugs users and stealing their posessions,
that in a perverse way, they violate the property protection laws of
the constitution and fuck the public at the same time in a cynical
race of stupidity wins all.

God bless this marijuana grower, the framers of the constitution
are on his side.

[PerpetualWinter]

6. Definitely an interesting read, but...

the writer really just came across as an angry teenager. Maybe, I'm just being a bitch because I don't like his style, but as well informed as he is, he just presented it in a way that I think does anything but help our cause.