Shannon's DMSI V2.3 Journal

[Shannon]

It'd be nice if legalizing MJ would save the US from its debt. I think it's more realistic that we'd just find other ways to spend the money, like obese citizens on welfare with new flatscreen televisions, a PS4, and no job.

Revenues from existing places that legalised MJ are decent but unfortunately a drop in the ocean as a whole for the government. There's enough to write a big cheque for (insert a political cause) though.

I'm referring to the focus on the plant as a cash crop if we were to use it as our primary source of raw materials for what it can be made into - I'm not interested in the monetary value for it's THC. It could easily run into the billions of dollars in exports if we played our cards right. Won't happen, but it's possible.

Well of course we have to actually want to get OUT of the national debt... regardless what we do, that's not going to happen until the Powers That Be decide that being out of debt is better than being in debt for whatever reasons they have for our current state of affairs.

It is hard to actually want to get out of debt because it's always better to have the money in your pocket. Democrats want to increase spending, Republicans want to cut taxes, both of which does not help. I suspect having the financial discipline to impose a serious debt-reduction plan, which means significant tax increases for Democrats and significant cuts to public spending for Republicans, would simply enrage people as money is taken out of their pockets, one way or another, and the party in power gets the boot. Also, given how much money is currently owned it would take generations to clear it up.

Getting into discussing politics, which is against the rules. We should back off.

I don't think we are going to have a solution executed, but I do think common sense would make it easy of we had any at the government level.

But back to the point, I am excited to run 2.3 and early signs definitely show it to be better than 2.2 for me.

I think we're realistically going to need to make DMSI as a 2-stage set for 3.x and beyond.