> There are several people that grow pot in NORCAL (Northern California)
> and report the income from its sales and pay both
> state tax, sales tax and Federal income tax listing their income being
> derived from growing and selling misc. hemp products.
> None have been hassled for this so far over the past 5 years.
>
> Strange days indeed!
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> On May 16, 9:11 pm, GOLDEN THREAD
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> bigpond.com.au> wrote:

>> Grow pot to save your country

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>> If five million of the population statistically reported, to be
>> The number of people in this country that have and do smoke pot
>> Spending 4 billion 9 hundred million on the green vegetable matter
>> every year
>> @ $20 per gram that is a staggering 245 000 000g or 245 000 kg.
>> The numbers when broken down are really a big hullabaloo about nothing
>> 49g per each of the five million $980 per annum per person.
>> If each of those five million grew 5 plants.
>> Paying initially $ 250 to purchase home growers license and the
>> clones/ seedlings
>> From a government body like the CSIRO.
>> The figures are impressive in terms of revenue returned to the
>> government.
>> Try this on for size
>> 5 000 000 X $250
>> $1 250 000 000 not bad for starters
>> If each finished producing, 2.5 kg on their plants, and the government
>> guaranteed, a return of $7 per gm for the dried manicured packaged
>> product in bulk. Then selling this product on to the retailers for $15
>> per gm and the retailer sells on for $20 including GST. Tax being
>> collected as the product is sold on from grower to retailer; this
>> represents $8 per gm sold return to commonwealth tax coffers even if
>> only 2million five hundred thousand people successfully grow 1000g
>> each the government could collect
>> 20 billion dollars then there are the carbon credits to of set the
>> natural disasters that cause billions of tons of carbon to be spewed
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