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How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by auntienomen »

adnam wrote: post #28
adnam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me that when you have teenage kids.

@Archio I hate to break it to you, but I was a teenager myself in to the so distant past and I am fully aware of the opportunities available. My point is that I don't want my kids being turned into stoners and that the law should be on MY side, not the guy pushing drugs on them.

The law is never going to be on the side of the guy trying to sell drugs to teenagers. Never.

EDIT, for clarity: But no one who advocates legalization is advocating the scenario you describe. Total fantasy.

Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by adnam »

Archio wrote: post #30
adnam wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@Archio I hate to break it to you, but I was a teenager myself in to the so distant past and I am fully aware of the opportunities available. My point is that I don't want my kids being turned into stoners and that the law should be on MY side, not the guy pushing drugs on them.

>I don't want my kids being turned into stoners [and] the law should be on MY side Should it? It isn't on your side if they want to (as consenting adults): ride a motorcycle, drink alcohol, go heliskiing, visit a strip club, buy condoms, or go bungie jumping, for example. Should all potentially harmful activities of any kind be criminalized as well, because you have kids and the law should be on your side?

No parent wants their children to use drugs. In the specific case I gave, the law should back up the parent.

Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by Archio »

adnam wrote: post #42
Archio wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I don't want my kids being turned into stoners [and] the law should be on MY side Should it? It isn't on your side if they want to (as consenting adults): ride a motorcycle, drink alcohol, go heliskiing, visit a strip club, buy condoms, or go bungie jumping, for example. Should all potentially harmful activities of any kind be criminalized as well, because you have kids and the law should be on your side?

No parent wants their children to use drugs. In the specific case I gave, the law should back up the parent.

I find this statement highly amusing, as (1) I use cannabis regularly without issue, (2) I've done well in both academic and professional spheres, and (3) both of my parents know and are perfectly fine with my responsible usage.

Perhaps you mean that no parent wants their young child/teenager to use drugs? No one in this thread (or anyone at Meadow) is advocating for that, we are specifically discussing adult use.

If we can take anything away from this extrapolated conversation, it should be that it's important to become educated and informed about topics highly susceptible to misinformation.

Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by afarrell »

adnam wrote: post #23
raducu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people call sugar a poison, some call pornography a poison some people call stress a poison. Consenting adults not harming others should have the right to poison themselves as they see fit.

Tell me that when you have teenage kids.

Your teenage kids probably already know whom they could talk to if they wanted to buy marijuana. I'm pretty sure I did in the affluent US public school I went to. I was never interested, so maybe I'm wrong about one or two of the folks, but I knew at least 8 people whom I thought would be able to get me some.

Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by anonbanker »

They're selling for twice what we're[0] selling for in Winnipeg. More than twice, if you count for the exchange rate. Marijuana is decriminalized in Canada right now (Allard v. Canada, 2015[1], R. v. Parker, 2000[3]).

If you guys were in Canada, I'd be terrified right now. Thankfully, this blue ocean is undisturbed by the ycombinator fish thus far.

Post April 21st, when the UN convenes, and Canada/Mexico pull-out/renegotiate three of their treaties, the U.S. might be pulled in as a result, and Obama can quietly brag about Marijuana being legalized under his administration (and he doesn't have to take credit!)

0. http://medicalcannab.is

1. http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2016/2016fc236/2016fc236...

2. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2000/2000canlii5762/200... [210]

Re: How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

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Post by raducu »

adnam wrote: post #23
raducu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people call sugar a poison, some call pornography a poison some people call stress a poison. Consenting adults not harming others should have the right to poison themselves as they see fit.

Tell me that when you have teenage kids.

Occasional drug use is not a huge problem.

People get addicted to drugs mainly because they self-medicate for anxiety or depression, that's what you should really worry about actually, concerning your children.

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