Mr Nice is a great read - the ingenious schemes they came up with were incredibly fantastical, but I couldn't help thinking that with that much talent, ingenuity, background and contacts, surely they could have made serious money legitimately without the risks of losing years of their lives doing bird?
Bit like Wile E Coyote. If he could afford all those ACME kits, why not just buy some food?
Saw him on one of his speaking tours back in the late 90s, he was a very witty and able storyteller. His life may not have suited everyone but noone could say it had been boring.
Neither opium nor heroin are plants, they are manufactured plant extracts as is cocaine.
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
@Alwaysneil has already said it, I'll say though it is a plant and I don't understand how a plant can be illegal. Derivatives of that plant are a different issue (heroin, cocaine and the like) but as far as weed goes I don't touch it but don't see how growing or smoking the leaves and buds of a plant can be criminalised.
Neither opium nor heroin are plants, they are manufactured plant extracts as is cocaine.
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
But if you didnt have the plant, (and the allied forces tried fairly hard to destroy the Afghan poppy fields so I assume that they also thought these drugs were plant derivatives) then surely you would not have these drugs?.
@Alwaysneil has already said it, I'll say though it is a plant and I don't understand how a plant can be illegal. Derivatives of that plant are a different issue (heroin, cocaine and the like) but as far as weed goes I don't touch it but don't see how growing or smoking the leaves and buds of a plant can be criminalised.
If you have ever been unfortunate enough to watch the program Australian Border Control (on Watch or Dave or Bruce), you will see that the Aussies have seemingly, and obsessively, made every plant and foodstuff illegal to import because of the "potential damage to indigenous Fauna..." So they have had a bash.
Neither opium nor heroin are plants, they are manufactured plant extracts as is cocaine.
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
But if you didnt have the plant, (and the allied forces tried fairly hard to destroy the Afghan poppy fields so I assume that they also thought these drugs were plant derivatives) then surely you would not have these drugs?.
Or morphine or many other opiates. Let alone all the canabaloid pain killers we have just started to look at.
Neither opium nor heroin are plants, they are manufactured plant extracts as is cocaine.
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
But if you didnt have the plant, (and the allied forces tried fairly hard to destroy the Afghan poppy fields so I assume that they also thought these drugs were plant derivatives) then surely you would not have these drugs?.
Ahh bless, tried to destroy ? They were protecting those crops... Usage in the UK is peaking right now and prices have crashed. I can get a bag of smack just as easy as i can get weed... It wasn't like that 15 years ago.
Neither opium nor heroin are plants, they are manufactured plant extracts as is cocaine.
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
But if you didnt have the plant, (and the allied forces tried fairly hard to destroy the Afghan poppy fields so I assume that they also thought these drugs were plant derivatives) then surely you would not have these drugs?.
Ahh bless, tried to destroy ? They were protecting those crops... Usage in the UK is peaking right now and prices have crashed. I can get a bag of smack just as easy as i can get weed... It wasn't like that 15 years ago.
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Rest in peace
His cancer would have been from smoking tobacco rather than cannabis. Best to smoke it blunt.
Bit like Wile E Coyote. If he could afford all those ACME kits, why not just buy some food?
RIP Howard.
An interesting life for sure.
RIP
What like Opium and Heroine you mean?
I think the point Mr Nice and Carter are making is that the plant itself (weed, poppy, mushrooms and coca) should not be illegal. Particularly Howard Marks was focussed on weed.
There is no decent research I am aware of that suggests weed (without tobacco) is damaging in its organic form. Certainly not anything that suggests it should be illegal.
There is a much more interesting debate as to whether psychoactive substances refined from these plants, or strains of plant added to to increase the psychoactive impact (chemical induced skunk, opium, cocaine, lsd, heroin) should be illegal, controlled or just free for use and taxed like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and sugar.
If I could buy organic weed legally, I would certainly prioritise that as a beneficial substance over both cigarettes and alcohol.
Crowded out by home grown chemical induced skunk I'm told by my associates who are more familiar with this sort of thing than me....
Howard Marks was a really interesting guy met him at a talk up in Hull once, was a
hazygreat evening.RIP Mr Nice.
Ahh bless, tried to destroy ? They were protecting those crops... Usage in the UK is peaking right now and prices have crashed. I can get a bag of smack just as easy as i can get weed... It wasn't like that 15 years ago.