ON Canada - what kind of recreational property are you looking at? It may range from 20 to 45% depending on what the property is. The higher the down payment the better chances you will get a loan.

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Legalizing marijuana would be a benefit to society. we as a nation would be improved by it. there are several reasons i make this claim. although pot has it's problems, it's benefits for outweigh it's consequences. another reason is to save the huge cost in tax dollars wasted in prohibiting pot and enforcing drug laws that have no benefit to society. if pot were legal you immediately eliminate the illegal pot market and get rid of crime associated with pot money. you could also release from jail all those convicted from pot related offenses and cut the costs of having to build new prisons to incarcerate normal people. because of mandatory drug sentencing laws, many states have to release violent offenders to make room for pot smokers. that's stupid! pot has many other uses. before the lumber industry lobbied congress to make pot illegal, marijuana (known as hemp) was the primary source of fiber for the production of paper. the united states constitution is printed on pot. with today's technologies this fiber can be processed into construction materials that would replace wood products saving our forests and lowering the costs of construction while producing byproducts useful in making fuels to run cars and generate electricity. hemp is a very hearty plant and would be a good cash crop for our nation's farmers. there are many types of people who oppose legalizing marijuana for a variety of reasons. many of these groups have some very strange reasons and selfish interests. many are just ignorant of the facts. here's some of the opposition: * the uninformed - people who believe the misinformation that pot is harmful to society. * the government - pot has been illegal for so long that no politicians have the political courage to tell the truth about pot. the ones that do tell the truth are defeated by their opponents that paint them as a druggie. many of these anti-drug politicians are funded by the alcohol lobby. * religion - anything fun is sin and of the devil. churches might lose members as people figure out that god can't be that stupid. * the alcohol lobby - legalizing pot would seriously cut into the sales of beer. pot would become the recreational drug of choice because it is safer than beer. * the tobacco lobby - pot has the ability in some people to help them break the addiction of nicotine. pot smoking could actually reduce the number of tobacco addicts. * law enforcement - there are a lot of people who make a living fighting pot who would have to go get a real job if pot were legalized. police departments get a lot of funding to fight marijuana and those funds could be returned to the taxpayer if pot were made legal. cops would have to chase robbers, rapists, and murderers. * government agencies - using unconstitutional civil forfeiture laws the government has been able to use the presence of pot to steal billions of dollars of private property from the people. drug laws have been an excuse to circumvent our constitutional right and justify wire tap laws, the erosion of protection from illegal searches, key recovery encryption, and domestic spying. if you take a politically unpopular position like this one i'm taking now, the government can plant drugs on you and put you away. * pot dealers - if pot were legalized then people making money off of selling pot illegally would be out of business. pot prices would drop to $10 a bale. crime relating to illegal pot money would vanish. * wood industry - hemp would become the primary source of fiber for paper products as well as a new source for building materials. we wouldn't have to cut down every big tree in the world. * private prisons - if pot were legalized the private prison industry would be hurt. they would no longer jail pot smokers. it could free up space for violent criminals. * trial lawyers - normal people caught with a joint spend billions each year on lawyers to get them off of criminal charges after getting caught with a joint. lawyers get rich off of the marijuana laws. if marijuana were legal this money could be spent sending your kids to college. * republicans - pot helps you see reality the way it really is. it's harder to con a pot smoker on political issues. once you get stoned it's harder to want to hate liberals, queers, blacks, pregnant teens, draft dodgers, president clinton, feminists, lesbians, pot smokers, and other people the republicans want you to hate. when you're stoned it's harder to like newt gingrich, john ashcroft, the kkk, the christian coalition, jerry falwell, pat buchanan, reverend sun myung moon, people who beat gay's to death, people who blow up abortion clinics, and the morally superior in general.

It should be legal. Alcohol and tobacco are much worst than weed.