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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

This is way too much fun to not post in its entirety. From: http:// 
time.blogs.com/daily_dish/


Pot bigger than corn...

18 Dec 2006 10:33 am

[Alex]

It's long been a staple of the marijuana legalisation crowd that  
cannabis is America's biggest cash crop. Conveniently a new report -  
produced by a pro-legalisation analyst - assures us that it is  
iondeed the case and that the value of US-produced pot is somewhere  
north of $35bn - making cannabis more valuable than corn.

No surprise here:

The report estimates that marijuana production has increased tenfold  
in the past quarter century despite an exhaustive anti-drug effort by  
law enforcement.

Nor, sadly, here:

Tom Riley, a spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug  
Control Policy, cited examples of foreign countries that have  
struggled with big crops used to produce cocaine and heroin. "Coca is  
Colombia's largest cash crop and that hasn't worked out for them, and  
opium poppies are Afghanistan's largest crop, and that has worked out  
disastrously for them," Riley said. "I don't know why we would  
venture down that road."

Good grief. Where to begin? How hard can it be to understand that  
it's the illegality of coca and poppy production that is primarily  
responsible for fostering banditry in Colombia and Afghanistan  
respectively?

I'm entirely persuaded by the philosophical appeal of the libertarian  
argument on drug policy, but this battle will only be won on  
practical rather than philosophical or even moral grounds. Alas, the  
war on the war on drugs shows few signs of being any more successful  
than the war on drugs itself.

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So there you have it, homesteaders, the ultimate cash crop continues  
to energize. Ah, the inconvenience of the law. But, hey, when it is  
deemed legal, the price will crash. Hm, dare we speculate on possible  
collusion between bureaucrats and producers? Dare we speculate on how  
many bureaucrats are users? Ah, they probably don't inhale. Right?
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> Geese are very, very messy.

I've heard this a couple of times. My plan would be to give them a
stall in the goat shed for shelter and then they would have access to
all the pasture that they want. Mostly the goat fencing would keep
them in the pasture.

What do you mean by messy? Poop everywhere?

Rob - Va