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Post by trailboss on Feb 19, 2019 21:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Feb 19, 2019 21:49:12 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 21:54:17 GMT -5
It’s a darn shame, but with the times ahead it was inevitable. Our future....tobacco’s imported from China. I’d smoke hay first👍
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Post by trailboss on Feb 19, 2019 22:08:42 GMT -5
It’s a darn shame, but with the times ahead it was inevitable. Our future....tobacco’s imported from China. I’d smoke hay first👍 We have a fallback position in Arizona...Darin is immersed in all stages of tobacco growing and processing....Mexico had El Chapo, we have El Baco. |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Feb 19, 2019 22:13:04 GMT -5
 Darin can have his own little tobacco compound. Just dont drink the koolaid! Further reason why I'm growing some this year. |
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Post by Darin on Feb 19, 2019 22:18:25 GMT -5
Lmao!  |
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Feb 19, 2019 22:51:26 GMT -5
Everythings gone to pot.
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Post by AJ on Feb 19, 2019 23:41:25 GMT -5
I predict the legalization of marijuana and a total ban of tobacco within five years. There is something terribly wrong with this picture. I’m not against the legalization of marijuana but a ban on tobacco will be a windfall for organized crime and a violation my God given right to pursue happiness.
AJ
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Post by trailboss on Feb 19, 2019 23:46:32 GMT -5
I predict the legalization of marijuana and a total ban of tobacco within five years. There is something terribly wrong with this picture. I’m not against the legalization of marijuana but a ban on tobacco will be a windfall for organized crime and a violation my God given right to pursue happiness. AJ I couldn't agree more....demonizing one and exalting the other? A perfect example of whoredom to who the political class perceives that the fair winds are blowing towards societally....individual liberties be damned. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 19, 2019 23:49:07 GMT -5
Does this affect us or mainly ciggies? Seems like all the premium baccy is sold out once it hits online retailers. haha
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Post by Stearmandriver on Feb 20, 2019 0:53:38 GMT -5
Looks to me like the original article talks about farmers switching to growing hemp, not marijuana. It's a very different crop, grown for very different reasons.
No doubt marijuana is a cash cow crop if you can get a growers license, but those are very hard to come by and amount mostly to political favors, at least here in WA. And it seems that the areas that have traditionally produced tobacco in the U.S. are some of the states least receptive to legalizing marijuana. I don't doubt that it'll be legalized federally eventually (and I'm not opposed to that), but it'll never be grown on the scale tobacco was. Hemp, on the other hand, could actually find a market in similar quantities to tobacco in its heyday.
My perspective is, it's always a little sad when the world changes, but often it's for the better, too. Cigarettes have killed a hell of a lot of people, and it strikes me as good that there are a lot fewer people enslaved to them these days. Of course that means fewer tobacco growers, and I wonder - how much does that affect the premium tobacco market? The tobacco farmers I knew in WI grew burley and sold in bulk to cigarette manufacturers; they didn't dabble in Virginia and certainly not in other specialty crops. I don't know who the farmers are that grow our tobacco, but I wonder if there's much crossover.
Point is, I wonder how much the shrinking of the cigarette industry will impact us?
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Post by andythebeagle on Feb 20, 2019 0:54:20 GMT -5
All too bad that Nixon made that decision. I've always enjoyed the freedom to smoke what I like, even if living in New York State.
It's about time that people get things right.
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