2010 Scratch and sniff Marajuana coin... really???

**cman** · 03-12-2012 03:23 PM

Hemp and marajuana are the same plant but male and female versions. Hemp is made out of the stalk of the male plant if im not mistaken...

**Dennis68** · 03-12-2012 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by rodeoclown

Cannibus has plenty of uses besides smoking it.

That's an understatement.It's probably the single most useful plant that mankind has ever known! And I think it should be on some US coins,I mean Washington,and Jefferson were huge growers,supporters,and yes,smokers of it,as was Lincoln,and they are all on US coins.
And does anyone see all the things they can make from it now? I've done some searching online,they make clothes,build entire homes,make plastics,even fuel.Not to mention food and medicine.Henry Ford built a car almost entirely out of hemp,and it ran on hemp! There's a video on utube showing a man hitting the car with a sledge hammer,and it just bounces off...yea I have other hobbys besises coin collecting Click here to enlarge

**Dennis68** · 03-12-2012 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by cman

Hemp and marajuana are the same plant but male and female versions. Hemp is made out of the stalk of the male plant if im not mistaken...

Actually,Its the same plant but "idustrial hemp" does not produce thc,the chemical that gets you "high".

**jjack** · 03-12-2012 03:28 PM

They sure seem to be flooding the market with these silver coins.

**james m. wolfe** · 03-12-2012 03:33 PM

not a good coin for kids

**mikenoodle** · 03-12-2012 03:33 PM

Matt, like it or not, marijuana has become very mainstream around the world. Its use is widely accepted even if not legal in most places.

There is a giant counter-culture that subscribes to the use of marijuana. Someone has merely decided to try and capitalize on it.

**jjack** · 03-12-2012 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by mikenoodle

Matt, like it or not, marijuana has become very mainstream around the world. Its use is widely accepted even if not legal in most places.

There is a giant counter-culture that subscribes to the use of marijuana. Someone has merely decided to try and capitalize on it.

I am not sure it has become mainstream around the world in fact in Asia there is strict rules against it compared to decades ago when people openly used it.

**vdbpenny1995** · 03-12-2012 03:51 PM

**Conder101** · 03-12-2012 04:13 PM

Just happened to have hemp paper handy? Interesting. Ol' Ben was into a lot of enterprises.

Washington also grew hemp at Mount Vernon.

**GDJMSP** · 03-12-2012 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by LostDutchman

But in all seriousness... really??? That has to be the single MOST tacky coin I have ever heard of... and it's issued by a world government. I wonder which mint made it?

Yeah, really. I remember reading about them when they came out. Think there were even posts about them here on the forum back then.

**LostDutchman** · 03-12-2012 05:27 PM

I was doing a little research for an upcoming episode of the podcast and ran across them... I must have missed their release.

**kookoox10** · 03-12-2012 05:33 PM

Is that green material the same as what Canada uses on some of their circulating and commemorative coins? They just add the fragrance to the mixture.

**jlblonde** · 03-13-2012 09:11 AM

This is why I don't collect NCLT. It's just tacky. But to each his own I guess. Nice conversation piece though.

**chrisild** · 03-13-2012 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by LostDutchman

I wonder which mint made it?

The Mayer Mint, as far as I know. As for the coin (well, "coin"), see this topic:
Pot Coin

Christian

**jjack** · 03-13-2012 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by jlblonde

This is why I don't collect NCLT. It's just tacky. But to each his own I guess. Nice conversation piece though.

I don't mind the gold NCLT (even though my preference is in issues' in prior decades' ) atleast there are fewer issues' of them compared to silver which seems to be sky rocketing these days.