Yes, lets send out the signal to all our kids that marijuana is ok, just a fine like cigarettes. We know how good those are for kids. When we say something is not a crime, that it is a civil violation we set out kids up for failure. Dealers will carry just under the 4 oz limit so that they will not be charged for a criminal charge just a fine, will be their cost of doing business.

This is such a misunderstood issue. If one accepts what the media, the government and the schools all say then yes, we should crack down on these terrible criminals who would ruin our children's lives. If, however, we really study the subject of marijuana...its effects and its uses, one will find the truth. The only deaths accountable to marijuana in this county are directly related to the ILLEGALITY of the substance and not the substance itself. Study up. Don't be fooled. This plant with its many uses (see Hemp and its uses) could help solve so many problems in this world. The potential medical uses alone are astounding.

Educate yourself!

Yes, let's, LawDisOrder.

Would you prefer that your kid -- should he ever get nabbed by the cops for having a joint in his pocket -- receives a criminal record for the rest of his living days? Would you like him to go to jail?

Many people smoke pot... Like that "degenerate" Olympic swimmer Phelps. Perhaps his life should be ruined for a night of indiscretion?

The MDEA and Chiefs want it to remain a crime simply because it goes towards their arrest volumes, and, hence, budgets. Make it a violation and they lose a little bit of funding. It's legal for medical use in Maine, but the MDEA and Police have manipulated things so that no, it's not. The voters made a choice years ago, and the voters lost to special interests.

Just legalize it, make alcohol illegal, and see how that goes. A lot less medical expense, in any event.

Just make it legal and tax it.

Nothing is good for you if not used in moderation. I say spark them up, put those NASTEY ciggs down and stop making DEVIL WATER!!! I also say shut the pharmisuticals down. They kill more of our children than we are aware of. On every street is some as& that sells their script to make a few buck. THIS IS A REAL CRIME!!

Now that we have all that out of the way, Pot will not be legal because it is a federal law. They are reducing the Jail time not the fines. This does not mean they are saying it is okay. It is up to you to teach your kids right from wrong. Their are many people that smoke pot, they are good people. You probably know a few. If you knew they smoked pot would they be less of a person? What would you think of them if you knew they took Zanacs or some other script? Would that be okay? I am all for pot smokers. They do it behind closed doors and will always untill the federal law changes.

LawDisOrder,

You are the kind of crackpot that wastes our tax dollars on things like the "war on drugs". We are so backwards in this country. Alcohol and Tobacco are perfectly legal but an organic plant isn't. How does this make sense? If we as a society continue to ban weed, then we should also ban booze and tobacco. What's the difference? Big money. The grass farmers don't have powerful lobbyists in Washington and Augusta. Think about how much money and time we'd free up if our law enforcement agencies no longer had to worry about mary jane. They might actually be effective in curtailing domestic abuse or property crime. Let's legalize it, tax it, and lower property taxes. Don't like it, don't smoke it. Mind your own business and reap the benefits of roads paved by the taxes that stoners would be more than willing to fork over for some legal doobies.

milomaine Well said. You are from Bradford way? Isnt that pot capital of maine? I dont think we want it to be legal. If it is leagal than every one and their brother can grow it. This would make bad buisness for the pot farmer. I hear they do well with out BIG BROTHERS RULE. I dont want it to be legal. I just think it should not be punishable by jail time. It should be punishable by fines only. That way the state makes a $ and they play the same game they always have, catch me if you can. Just my thought if I was a farmer.

Legalize Mother Nature!

I hate to admit it but I have to agree with milomaine on this one. A lot of money by-passes the treasury the way it is now.

--: like 'choppadave' said.

We have spent [immeasurable] resources attempting legislate morality, be it prohibition, ladys of the Eve, Et al.

What can be worse than tobacco ?

Tax the junk.

choppahdave~ I am always agreeing w/ your comment but not this one. Look at the waste. I have lost all faith in big brother. I do realize that big bro protects us, & that w/ out law this would be a scary place. It is scarry to me to see the wasting of money in our gov. I am happy that they dont get to tax it as INCOME yet. It gets taxed when the farmer spends it, at the grocery store,gas,registrations, ya know life. This is how some people that I know make a living. They are not rich, they just get by. They pay tax just as you & I but they dont pay INCOME tax. Think a bout that for a few.

alcohol.......tobacco and drugs should all be "equally" illegal.............people all we need is food to survive....

While you're at it let's legalize heroin. By the accounts here of some of our most astute scholars they are saying that something that comes from a plant should be legal. Um where does heroin come from?

I was gonna respond to this earlier, but my glaucoma kicked up a couple hours ago and I had to medicate it. Then I put on a Grateful Dead tape and I just don't know where the time went. I guess I'm a menace to society and should be arrested.

its about time for a change a few years back it cost me 800 bucks for 3 roaches and a pipe TELL ME THATS FAIR i worked my whole life payed my taxes so i say yes the change is comming just ck the normal website its happening peace all

This is such a waste of money. We have a communist as a president, an economy that is completly in shambles and Maine is concerned about changing the laws about a weed that grows wild in much of the world. Just leglaize it and tax the hell out of it...

Not sure what I should expect from a State that both Senators voted to completely destroy what our founders built. I grew up in Maine and lived there until I was 20. I moved out because there was no jobs it is now 20 years later and there are still no jobs and now it is worse you have communiists and socialist running the state.

I only wish I could get the rest of my family to move out that state and stop funding communist leaders....

A lot of people don't like alcohol and prefer cannabis; the safer alternative. Why should that be prohibited? When our legislature made cannabis and hemp illegal they didn't even debate it because nobody knew anything about it. We still don't know why it's illegal except for the gov't says it's bad, but nobody has ever died from it. It's all a bunch of legislative nonsense and I hope we come to our senses and quit wasting money on this stuff.

lstevenson, you got issues. communists? ya right.

you don't live in maine so shut up, huh? at least smoke up and chill.

Your all idiots the war on drugs is the biggest waste of money. In todays society a large percentage smoke pot or have smoked pot. People smoke it one way or the other so you might as well make it legal and tax the crap out of it.

People in Jail for pot is a waste of mine and your money. We spend more keeping them in prison then we do providing a college level education for person who would otherwise not be able to afford it.

The war on drugs is becoming a fully armed war. See the daily news about gun battles in Mexico. Just take a look at what the war on drugs in Columbia is doing to that society. Look again at what the war on drugs is doing in our own country. The criminal element that will remain with us for the next hundred years is now causing much of our street crime, while our prison industrial complex creates an underclass of unemployables. Now let’s go to Columbia. The war on cocaine and pot has turned that country into a battleground, while in Afghan our troops march through poppy fields that are being harvested by our supporters. All this hypocrisy makes criminals out of teens experimenting with hemp while the drug companies grow rich on opiate alternatives. We think we can control substance use. However like Rosanna Rosanna Dana use to say. “There is always something”. For instance the most abused substance in the Country of Columbia is?????????????????????The answer is gasoline. Huff that. Try to stop that from being so.

everyone should smoke crack and worship satan

Legalize it. Tax it. Use a portion of the tax money to fund prevention and treatment programs and put the rest to work for the State. Simple issue.

LET ME KNOW IF POT SHOULD BE LEGAL WHEN YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER IS LAYING ON A SLAB IN THE MORGUE BECAUSE SOME SPACED OUT POT HEAD CRASHED THE CAR THEY WERE PASSENGERS IN! WANT TO SMOKE ONE NOW???

There is a real simple way to make sure your child will not die in a car driven by someone under the influence. It's called parenting! It's up to the "rents" to teach common sense and good judgement to make sure their kids don't get into a car with somebody who is "high". Besides,you stand more of a chance of having an accident with some meat stick with a cell phone stuck in their ear then you do with a " spaced out pot head"

What pulpcuttah said!

Personally I think that cannibis should be legalized and I also think that their should be no jail time for it.

I am all for legalizing marijuana.

I don't find people killing each other that are on it.

I don't find them tripping

I don't find them so alcoholic induced that they cannot drive.

I also don't find many that are smoking driving either.

Canada has pretty much done this and I don't see many problems with it in their country. So what is the point.

Personally I think legalization of Marijuana would help the education, the budget here in Maine and the problems we are having. Tax it and let it be done with.

I also know that marijuana is proved to help those with Cancer, as well as Ulcerative Colotis, Fibromaylgia patients and Chrones Patients.

So it cannot be that bad. It is a natural substance grown most everywhere across the world. So legalize it and get it over with.

And it is not like one is taking Herione and/or Cocaine or Meth.. it has none of these affects.

Have you seen anyone overdose from Pot? Sorry but I have not.

As far as my kids, and being suseptible to this..well let's face it, I rather them suseptible to this then to some drug addict shooting up on a street down an alley and leaves their heroine and cocaine syringes and needles behind as they do in Utah! and in California!

So with this what is left behind?

Also cigarettes do more damage to the children with second hand smoke as well as smoking the stuff.

Do I condone my children smoking Pot? Of course not. But I rather see them seeing people smoking pot then some of the other things in the world they can see!

It is all about Parenting and teaching our children our home values. So Parents start teaching you don't want them to know this stuff, and you don't want them in it, tell them about the importance as to why.

I am and have always been an advocate for legalizing Marijuana. I find nothing wrong with it. And find all this legislation and a bill to do more fines and less time in jail a true waste of time in my opinion. Give Marijuana a legalization limit and call it good!

I've heard of lots of alcohol poisoning. I have not however heard of "marijuana" poisoning. It's not anything that makes you violent. A kid just died in old town for drinking. Really, point me to the last article where someone died from smoking a joint. If my choice is the drunk driver, or the pot smoker driving too darn slow- I'll take the pot smoker any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

As for the messages we send- Well, I'm not really thrilled with alcohol. More people die from that. As to kids- well... no kids need to be drinking, smoking cigarettes or anything else. Alcohol is 21 and over so should it be for marijuana. The DEA and the rest must just think people are stupid. Most people know even if you sat down and smoked an ounce- you're not going to die. Maybe you'll raid the fridge and take a nap? If the DEA legalized what is LESS dangerous than alcohol, they would find their job better. More people would support them against the really dangerous crap heroin, cocaine, etc. Hell, they could even get donations and everything.

One country has already shown success in having marijuana in their society. Amsterdam anyone? California just proposed a bill yesterday to legalize it and tax it. The state proposes it because they are broke. If they do it, they stand to gain: $350 million from sales tax revenue. The economy is dying, it's something that isn't as nearly bad as alcohol. If other states did what california is trying to do, the money could go partly to the DEA, Police stations, drug programs for the REAL Drugs. This bad stuff that goes around that looks like pop rock candy.

Sadly, my cousin od'd on pot.

What has happened to our society when they step up to the guilitine to be taxed? I am shocked that most of the posters here find new taxes acceptable for impropermismanagement of our government by greedy corrupt politicians. Reform government and there will be no need to tax pot. Why should a segment of society be taxed to fund the politicians follies? Come on folks.....it's not about new taxes...it should be about tax reform & spending curtailment by these sicko politicians that put our economy in it's present condition. IMO.......all drugs should be decriminilaized NOT LEGALIZED..decriminalized. Drugs are a health issue not a criminal issue. The only reason these Mexican cartels sprung up is because we made it possible by creating that black market. If we were to decriminalize drugs, there would be no black market. Ya gotta love those idiots who always through the children into the mix. Wake up idiots and educate your children

Jimbow_123 RIGHT ON THE MONEY!! I have been watching this and I a think all of these people roll over when they are told!! If you read this, these people think it is ok to be TAXED FOR EVERYTHING!!! If you tax it, it can be leagal! Get a clue! I am taxed to death! I am greatful for every right I have in the USA but I am ashamed of how our government imposes their propiganda as to what is okay and what isnt. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WHAT YOU KNOW IT RIGHT, dont leave it for someone else to do. ALL FOR POT! It is great. I hate PILLS! They make the real waste of scociety. What did we do for our whoos before we found the pills any how? NO TAX ON POT< NO JAIL TIME FOR POT< Get a back bone America, We are poor, not the government!!!

Maurice_Fleckman wrote: "Sadly, my cousin od'd on pot."

I don't mean to make light of what I'm sure was a tragic death.....(but I'm going to)

OD'd on Pot???? What happened? Did they choke to death on some Cheetos while watch'n Comedy Central?

I only have one thing to say about this debate.

Where does freedom come into this. The legislature seems to feel the people of the State of Maine do not view this activity as a crime. It's a parking ticket...it's similar to rolling thru a stop sign. How far do we really want to go when allowing the State of Maine into our home?

By the way.....comparing Heroin to Pot is like comparing Crack Cocaine to Coffee from Cuba. They're both illegal....one will ruin your life....the other will just ruin your reputation with people you probably don't like anyway.

The last person to "OD on pot" hasn't happened yet. Idiot.

Maurice_Fleckman, hmmm, thats funny because I've researced every single medical journal that I have access to (through my uni) and cant find a single documented case of cannabis overdose in the US. There was one however in the UK where a young girl died, but she had a pre-existing pulmonary condition and while marihuana was inhaled, it certainly was not the direct cause of her death.

Its is easier to overdose on water than it is to overdose on cannibis. When a person drinks too much water, the concentration of the electrolyte sodium is decreased. In simple terms, sodium in the blood plasma becomes diluted. The body then tries to maintain electrolyte balance through the process of osmosis (The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from higher to lower concentration). The body tries to correct the electrolyte imbalance by moving water from a higher concentration (outside the cells) into lower concentration (inside the cells). Cells swell up. As a result of this electrolyte imbalance, tissues swell up. Swelling of the brain tissue leads to seizures, coma and ultimately death.

However, with marihuana, science has proven that one would have to consume and astronomical amount of marijuana for it to be lethal. Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e., stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana as you needed to get stoned...which is nearly 1500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.

In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10.

As a medical student it still baffles that in this day and age, with this much knowlegde, that possessing a useable amount of marihuana is criminal.

Something needs to change.

Hitler used the same 'think of our children' argument to push his political agenda with Hitler's youth.

If you're a real parent you'll know that the more you try to control your children the less control you will have over them.

To see where strict control over marijuana will lead, take a look at Mexico. The tighter the penalty and enforcement the higher the price will go and more corruption we will have at all levels.

Honestly, how are you ever going to control a WEED? The more you try the more you will fail.

If you're really concerned about your children, spend some time with them and share your great wisdom.

Pot costs us more in jail and surveillances to catch and sting folks who have no more risk to us than people sipping wine at dinner, except we tax booze. So legalize and tax it, a new cash crop for Maine!

People cannot even imagine how much time, effort and $$$$$ we have wasted along the way of prohibition, which has failed, just as alcohol prohibition failed. The reason that marijuana prohibition hasn't been repealed is lack of education about it, and lack of outcry by the citizens to get rid of it, because of the lack of education about Cannabis which is marijuana and hemp. If the citizens all knew the truth about this plant, they would stop all this ridiculous refer madness in short order.

The outcry of the citizens against alcohol prohibition, and by the juries aquittals in a trial by jury in our courts let to the end of that prohibition, and will also be the way it is done for marijuana prohibition. Education is the key to ending this war on our citizens. Go to our web site for info as well as other groups who are linked to our site. www.mainevocals.net We are on the verge of launching our petition for Maine to end prohibition, as soon as it is printed at the Sec. of States office and we can print it off. Interested? mainevocals@msn.com

All the naysayers here keep bringing up the issue of "the kids". I don't believe that anyone here in this forum or in Augusta is promoting selling pot to children. The joke of all this banter is this; if I as an old fart want to get some weed to ease the pain of my FM and RA, I will need to ask a youngster to "hook me up". Time to face reality. Its all just too ironic. Legalize, tax and don't worry, be happy.

The best thing that could be done is to make it legal and tax the hell out of it just like they do cigarettes. The Maine DEA could send its officers and all the money it spends up in helicopters trying to find the pot plants in the corn fields to a better use. I am surprised the great TAX STATE would not do this to fill its financial black hole.

Reading Smartnup's post at 3:06 p.m. on 03/25/09 makes me realize that there are more important crimes to worry about than pot smoking. If I were smartnup's parents I would want the person arrested that let him graduate from high school, of course, that's assuming he did finish high school.

Seriously

Nastey = Nasty

Pharmisuticals = Pharmaceuticals

Zanacs = Zanax

Smartnup obviously enjoys some herbal refreshments once in a while.

FEELS GOOD MAN

bicycle1 is the Last person to be talking about any kind of abuse. he invented it.

What isn't fully understood by the public, given all the facts, is WHY marijuana is illegal when held up against tobacco and alcohol. It has nothing to do with getting high. The U.S. government paid Americans to grow hemp back in the 1930's and 1940's. With no problems whatsoever. It is one of the strongest fibers known, and was used in all rope manufacturing. I used hemp rope in the '60's as a steeplejack.

Now, WHO would want to elminate the use of hemp as a strong fiber in the manufacture of rope? Sound stupid? What's your rope made out of? Except for cotton and some fiber cord (manila rope), it's all petrochemical. Plastic or derivations of plastic. ALL OF IT. Dow Chemical, DuPont and, yes, and the petroleum industry, pays millions and millions of dollars per year to lobbyists to keep it illegal. Worldwide. No? Why, then, would base hemp, contaqining no psychoactive materials, remain illegal? It's easy to grow marijuana WITHOUT any tetrahydrocannibinol content. Just a very strong, fibrous weed that will only give you a headache if you smoke it. WHY is that?

I haven't smoked any in a long time, and don't really care about it. It's amazing, though, what a little lobbying in a Nation's Capital can do, and convince everyone else down the line of the lies.

Why shouldn't a person be able to grow an amount of some sort on his own property the same as those running small home brew kits do with alcohol?

I had someone tell me that Pot was a gateway drug that lowered inhibitions like alcohol does and that would lead to other drug use.

I have been drinking alcohol since it became legal for me to do so (25 years) and not once has it ever lead me to smoking crack or shooting heroin.

Agree newportres. The gateway theory was disproven years ago. In my opinion if we were more truthful with our kids instead of using fear tactics by claiming "oh you'll get addicted to pot" or "it'll lead you to do heroin" we'd be much farther ahead. Once HS kids try weed and realize its NOT addicting it and that their parents, teachers and the media has lied, it only makes sense that they'd feel everything else they've been told about drugs is also false. Unfortunately many will step over line unknowingly and later become addicted to harder drugs because they were never really armed with the cold hard facts.

As a parent AND a recovering addict of 12yrs, I feel its my job to be honest with my kids from the get go. I want them to be fully aware of their choices and the consequences that follow.

As I attempted to say in my previously deleted post, I support this legislative initiative. My reasons are both historical and as a matter of personal experience. Historically, we all know that President Washington grew pot. As a past probation and parole officer, my experience has taught me that offenders who smoked pot were not the violent ones, and had usually not committed violent crimes. Their crime was usually simple possession. In fact, their family's, including those who changed their preferences from alcohol to pot, were appreciative of the choice. Cop's budget-driven attempts to oppose this legislation should be exposed for what it is ... without historical or logical merit. I pointed out that change has finally come to our federal government. It would not surprise anyone if Maine were to take a lead by not only decriminalizing pot, but fully legalizing it and controlling it like we attempt to do with alcohol and pharmecueticals. Protectionism, whether it be from the so-called southern cotton lobby or unjustifiable police budgets, should not be allowed to form part of the debate on whether or not to decriminalize or, even smarter in my view, fully legalize pot. I don't smoke pot. Didn't, like most people, even like it when I tried it, but the lies and insanity of crimiinalizing a natrual plant should stop now. Incidentally, I could use a job.

Even if pot were legalized, I don't think most employers would be accepting of it. What employer wants an employee serving their customers when their breath reeks of pot?

Maurice_Fleckman with his "cousin od'd" bs sounds like a liberal kook who states something as if its a fact and expects everyone to swallow it as truth.

As Bugs Bunny says, "what a maroon" !

Aint no better feeln,than sitting in the wheel house riding the High Seas,after getting your mind right. So I say,"Snap on The Family Guy,and smoke a left hander".

Almost 4 to 1 in favor of reducing penalties by the poll. We're all here because we ain't all there? I'm not here right now, but I'm certainly not all there.

5forfightin wrote:

Maurice_Fleckman with his "cousin od'd" bs sounds like a liberal kook who states something as if its a fact and expects everyone to swallow it as truth.

There may have been a OD and marijuana may have been involved, but the death likely did not occur as a result of the marijuana. If you don't roll your own, you'd better know the person who is. But the same holds true for a bottle of liquor, if it's already open, know where it's been before. Peolple pollute bottles in bars too. Sad, but true.

The article is about only raising the amount in possession to make it a civil offense, and raising the fines for that possession. Are you all aware that possession of alcohol by a minor is only a civil offense. For both, that means, at least in Maine, your Constitutional rights regarding search and seizure don't apply, because it is not a criminal action.

My teenaged daughter was diagnosed a few years ago with a severe sleep disorder. I know for a fact she has tried pot. And I have noticed that every time she has smoked pot, she sleeps peacefully. Maybe THC is the answer to that problem, but I doubt anybody is going to prescribe it for her. They put her on Seroquel, one of the worse killers in our country, but they wouldn't prescribe something that would work. Why is this? DOLLARS!! Money talks. The biggest obstacle to legalizing marijuana is not our legislatures, it is pharmaceutical lobbying interests. Why let your kid smoke a $5 joint, when you can buy them a $40 pill that has the potential to kill, in more ways than one.

Peolpe who want to or need to get high are going to do it anyway. Pot would be a much better way to go. If I had to choose between my kids drinking or using pot, I would choose the pot. But to be safe, I have done my best to educate them on the dangers of both. For pot, is has been mostly--don't get caught.

When a friend of my daughter's was fourteen, I rushed her to the ER for acute alcohol toxicity. She remained in the hospital for three days.

In my senior of high school two classmates died as a result of alcohol. One choked to death on his own vomit. The other drove his car into a phone poll and tried to walk home. They found his body on the baseball field behind the school the next day. That was in 1971. Since then, there have been millions of teens to die in the same way.

No one should drive while impaired. Someone above pointed out that idiots will still be idiots. But with pot, the impairment does not usually involve high speeds.

And to date, there are no pot related diseases like cancer to cigaretts or chirrosis to alcohol. I wouldn't be against having pot regulated, like the vitamin industry to be sure certain health standards are met during processing. We already do it for the tobacco industry.

url for normal they will probably pull this but oh well---http://norml.org/index.cfm reform the laws

MaineMom73- Dylan died from a head injury not from drinking, idiot.

MaineMom73-------Who died in Old Town from drinking? The only death I heard of from that area was a young man who fell down some srairs and died from a skull fracture!

In a nation that was begun by a gang of men who didn't want to pay less than a Penny Tax on pounds of tea, I can't believe how many freedom minded people here in Maine are so willing to be taxed for anything, never mind on a weed that grows up out of the dirt. Tax on nothing. We're taxed to death already. Please grow the spine to have one thing not taxed, tell your government that they work for us, and we're tired of having it the other way around, and them wasting our money on BS and vote buying. What's wrong with the California law where you can have so many personal plants and not have to pay on anything? The only people who are taxed in California do so voluntarily in the form of Sales Taxes on sales made in Oakland Stores, that's right, stores, and Taxes on Income made by those who own growing schools. Just say No... to any more taxes, in fact, while we're at it, let's repeal some that we have already, and put laws on the books so that people can make money in Maine again, ... of the people, by the people, or vote the @*&#^!s out, dont' let them hammer the news with bad weed laws, so that people get sick of it before good bills can even be written.

just as I have said they are all SHEEP. They want to do something they have been hiding in the closet for so long. They keep saying " Just Tax it". Are they smoking the stuff I have been looking for? Why do these people think it is OK to be taxed? It is not okay. No matter what the state says it is still a federal law that Mary Jane be the scurge of scociety. SMOKE POT! STOP THE TAXATION WITH OUT REPRESENTATION!!!

Lets no bring the boy who passed into this. If he was burning one, instead of drinking one, he would be here. In stead, alcohol is socially excepted so that is okay. get a clue, this boy wouldnt have fallen down the stairs if he wasnt impaired by BOOZE!! ALCOHOL IS BAD!!! Bad choices are made while one is consuming.

LawDisOrder, you seem to not realize that possession of up to 1 1/4 oz is already not a crime. This bill is just to expand that amount.

Ya, Fishboston, wheelhouse, obiewonkadoobie, twin 671's purring, sun coming up. Flatlander's can't imagine.

In reply to previous poster (raysgurl), the content of cigarette tobacco is not regulated. Lorillard's web site has a list of the ingredients used in their cigarette tobacco. This list is about 3 pages long. One key ingredient is corn syrup (the same stuff they put in soft drinks).

On 2/27/09 at 07:39 AM, Snakebite6x6x6 wrote:

LawDisOrder, you seem to not realize that possession of up to 1 1/4 oz is already not a crime. This bill is just to expand that amount.

What a ridiculous statement. You get fined $350, get your name printed in the paper, and have to appear in court. But take note everybody, it's not a crime!

On 2/27/09 at 09:19 AM, matt29 wrote:

In reply to previous poster (raysgurl), the content of cigarette tobacco is not regulated. Lorillard's web site has a list of the ingredients used in their cigarette tobacco. This list is about 3 pages long. One key ingredient is corn syrup (the same stuff they put in soft drinks).

Matt, it is not regulating content, just processing. Since it is a plant, there may be a need to use non carcenogenic compounds etc. in their growth. It is my understanding that the plants need to hung upside down (in a plastic garbage bag???) while the leaves dry. This could potentially introduce mold which is a common allergen. The vitimin industry had its own scandal in when handlers were not gloved, dropped ingredients were being picked up off the floor, or were just generally being produced in environments that needed improvements.

However, thanks for information as well. I don't smoke, but I will look at it anyway. Sounds interesting!!

GEE, IF MAINE WAS THE FIRST TO MAKE POT FULLY LEGAL IT SHOULD INCREASE BUSINESS --- ARE THE INNKEEPERS FOR IT?