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Old 01-22-2009, 10:32 PM
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Marijuana Inc. Inside the marijuana industry
There's starting to be these cookie cutter documentaries produced by the networks involving behind the scene looks at California's medical cannabis industry. For guys like us it's a hour wasted of our lives watching them, but we know the players so we tune in to root them on.

These are getting so predictable and the latest from CNBC is just another one that divides the hour into 4 15 minute segments. They always start in the Emerald triangle, Mendocino and the like. They are amazed at our pot trees and can't keep their cameras off them. They talk to growers, the sheriff, the supervisor and people who are moving away because the trailer next door burned down in their park. Yawn.

Then for the second segment they go to school, they pop into the Oaksterdam University and then off to the Blue Sky for some album flipping. Richard is cool until little miss snoop ass reporter broad starts getting into facts and figures and he sets her straight about his man love for Javiar so there's no taunting.

Off to segment 3 where some dude smuggles weed into San Francisco bay, more boredom sets in and I'm wishing these documentaries were about a half hour long.

Segment 4 rushes into spending about 10 billion a year on fancy helicopters and the failed eradication efforts brought about by our government's total lack of recognition that theirs more of us than their is of them. We will over grow you! John Walters tells us these Mexican nationals are kidnapped and forced to grow in national forests under the threat of harm to their family. Makes perfect sense that the kidnapped disgruntled workers make the best and most passionate growers.

In the end the helicopter pilots admits his failure and disappears into the ever widening spiral of his own insignificance. So there's the script for about 90% of these boring documentaries they're making. And I hope they make 100 more of these because you know these neanderthals living in non MMJ states are drooling all over themselves as they imagine flipping through the album at Blue Sky. They want to be like us.

While watching a preview on CNBC one of the anchors, when they come back from the preview, an old republican looking dude is muttering this is just disgusting. This is terrible. He's funny!

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Old 01-23-2009, 03:06 AM
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thanks for the new news Dopey. And 'Yes they do want to be like us'.
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Watch the CNBC show online (if ya have broadband) and let us know what YOU think of it: http://www.cnbc.com/id/28281668/


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The CNBC show made an implicit case for legalization that was obvious to drug reformers like us, but one wonders whether it was obvious to average Americans. Conspicuously absent from the show was any consumer spokesperson for marijuana (i.e., someone who did not have an economic interest in it), any articulate critic of prohibition to counter Walters, Pena et al, or any Mendocino Co. officials supporting legalization (as the county Board of Supes urged in a letter to President Bush in 2007). Overall, it seemed like an example of pot porn, feeding passions on both sides of the issue.


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They might as well have displayed a link to ONDCP.gov across the screen for an hour.
CNBC'sMarijuana, Inc.couldn't have been more sensationalist if John Walters wrote the screenplay and Bill O'Reilly did the interviews. I'm serious, it was that bad.
Of course, it's impossible to know how the casual observer may interpret a propaganda trainwreck such as this, but for me it crossed the threshold of absurdity to the point of almost becoming useful. If one factual concept emerged unscathed from this, it is that there is simply nothing you can do to stop the marijuana economy.
Marijuana, Inc.painted California as a veritable narco-state, thrown into anarchy by liberal values and unscrupulous profiteers. If there's a lesson in there other than the fact that our marijuana laws are a disaster, I must have missed it.
The great irony of this is that, whether they like it or not, CNBC is selling their product to the same exact market. Who do they think watches this stuff? Just turn off the sound and you've got sixty minutes of first-rate pot porno to accompany the musical selection of your choice. They used
blatant pot pornto promote it, so they know exactly what they're doing.
Something is seriously out of balance when CNBC puts out an obnoxious propaganda program, while simultaneously hosting
an online pollthat favors decriminalization at 97%. They even felt compelled to put this disclaimer on their comment section:
**As of this posting, CNBC has only received comments favoring decriminalization of marijuana.
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Watch it online at hula tv

http://www.hulu.com/watch/54312/cnbc...-marijuana-inc

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I didn't like the report at all - I dont see how living next to a marijuana grower is some how problemsome. Most growers are responsible are also a little bit paranoid so they keep grow rooms private.

On another note, i dislike all these recent mj legalization debates over the nightly news stations. I rather have debates about decriminalization & medical marijuana being federally legal. Because before we have out right marijuana legalization, we need to have those who need it, medically, to have safe access to it.
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the answer to why this b.s. drug war ever started is at 15:10 when the dea dude says "its the people who have voted..."

the citizens of the United States are the most empowered society we as modern humans have ever known but the people allowed themselves to be duped decades ago and now we are paying for it.

we used to have legal and respectable use of cannabis in this country.

we used to have a gold backed currency and the kind of economic stability it offers.

we used to have a healthy non-interventionist foreign policy.

we used to have liberties and a course of action for when those liberties were violated.

why do we sit like children begging for cookies when our founding fathers teach us we should be using the Constitution to put the fear of revolution into these cretins we call poiticians?
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