Pot in America

[Maitre]

Hi,
There are all sorts of plants that manufacture explosives, fertilizers, industrial chemicals, etc. The population is safe (well, relatively safe) from these plants because they are legal and can be controlled. If you outlawed, for instance, peroxide, then the people who made illegal peroxide would hardly follow EPA guidelines or zoning restrictions. I don't accept that argument.

--Pete

I would argue that regulation/control arguments are irelovant as well, but for a different reason: many manufacturing facilities, though regulated, are far from being controlled.

The owners of such facilities don't regularly follow the discharge guidelines as it is, even if they bother to get the appropriate permits before beginning to make and sell their products (as my wife could tell you being an emplyoee of the local department of environmental quality). Commonly, it will cost them less in penalties than it would to follow the process correctly, at least here in the "business friendly" commonwealth.

And regardless of research findings (on either side of the issue), there's no way I'd buy property on Lake Anna. There's just something wrong with a warm lake.