How did pot become such a big cash crop in the Midwest?
Well, no one knows for sure that it’s all coming from the Midwest. But it’s logical that it would, because this is the agricultural heartland. And marijuana grows very well in the same conditions that corn does. It’s just worth a hell of a lot more. A bushel of corn sells for $2, and a bushel of marijuana for $70,000. And those are the workings of the market right there. When you start sentencing people to life in prison for marijuana, you greatly increase the value of marijuana. This is a weed. It grows wild in all 50 states. It’s hard to kill. Most of us who couldn’t grow a thing could probably grow some marijuana if we wanted to. So, in the absence of these really tough laws against it, it’s not going to be a very lucrative commodity. But the toughness of the laws correlate to the price, so a lot of marijuana is now worth more per ounce than gold, which is a huge incentive for people all over the United States to grow it, and sell it, and profit from it. When you write about porn, y
