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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:16 PM
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Will pot dealers ever be romanticized the same way boot-leggers and rum-runners were?
Prohibition era boot-leggers and rum-runner hold a certain air of romanticism and whimsy when remembered by people around back then and people learning about them today. Instead of being seem as people that were actively breaking the law, they are revered as rebels standing up to an unjust/moralistic law.

If the criminalization of marijuana were to end in the future would weed farmers and dealers receive the same treatment?
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:26 PM
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1. Have you watched Weeds?
It's a start.

http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:29 PM
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3. Its at least been made sexy
MILF Weed!!!!
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:29 PM
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2. The glamor surrounding the bootleggers
was the glamor of the speakeasy, the underground club that served alcohol. Those were a big deal in the cities, the place to go if you wanted to hear top musicians and see top acts.

I don't think everyday people saw a whole lot of glamor in the street level rum dealers who were selling wood alcohol and killing them.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:37 PM
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5. The distillers and drivers also garnered a certain cachet
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melm00se Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:38 PM
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6. that and the majority
of Americans don't condone the use of marijuana like they do of alcohol.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 07:04 PM
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11. Maybe the majority of people over 50.
Edited on Sun Aug-03-08 07:05 PM by girl gone mad
Certainly the vast majority of young people do condone it.
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EmperorHasNoClothes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:34 PM
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4. Who is the Al Capone of pot?
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:41 PM
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7. Probably some Mexican farmer.
LOL
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:49 PM
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8. Something like NASCAR?
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 05:57 PM
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9. Narcocorridos certainly do. n/t
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bdf Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 06:59 PM
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10. Anyone with even some slight degree of intelligence
already believes that pot dealers "are revered as rebels standing up to an unjust/moralistic law."

The smarter people look at The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and wait patiently for the revolution. Patiently because time flows at a different rate when you're stoned. :D
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 07:10 PM
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12. Most pot dealer I know do it...
... because it's easy money for very little actual work. I don't think righteous indignation against the government has anything to do with it.
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enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-08 07:23 PM
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13. If you want to see the mainstream version of this, read the article in the recent New Yorker.
"Dr. Kush" (July 28, 2008)
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