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doesn't that contradict...everything studies have shown? i mean they can view it however they like but...studies have shown otherwise, haven't they?
Of course. Fresno.
Hawaii? How would Maui like to have its favorite cash crop back? The mainland would like to ask you a favor.
What state should pick up the torch on this?
I've heard stories from hikers who have stumbled upon highly guarded marijuana farms, nestled deep in the wilderness. It is becoming increasingly difficult to policy, and the crazy water-diversion tactics are damaging sensitive ecosystems.
Maybe if pot were legalized, you could grow it on hydroponic farms, like they do tomatoes and basil, and then you wouldn't have crazy folks hiding out in the woods, armed to the teeth. (Though, to be fair, the same thing happens with meth labs, too.)
As for Kerlikowske and pot when he was Chief, this is the best I could find:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/399760_ke…
"A 1998 state law allows debilitated and terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana, but gives police departments wide latitude in whether to make an arrest.
Despite that, Holcomb said Kerlikowske's officers have "demonstrated compassion" in not arresting known growers and users in medical marijuana cases.
She also said his officers are respectful and tolerant when they patrol Hempfest, the city's annual celebration of drug-law reforms.
Seattle City Councilman Nick Licata, a former chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said Kerlikowske would be an ideal drug czar.
"He is sort of a logical choice because he's someone who has been a police chief in a very progressive city, and he has seen how these approaches worked, and he's allowed them to mature," Licata said.
He added: "He's not on a platform arguing for decriminalization of drugs or radical drug reform measures.""
Follow the money. There's powerful people wanting to keep things the way they are. Pharm companies, the prison industrial complex. Feds will support the policies of the people WE put in office.
Dammit, the old order's holding on by their teeth.
Like Eastern Washington would ever let that happen.
The ice cream man can deliver crack. That doesn't mean ice-cream should be considered dangerous.
What you just did there? That's called the "gateway drug" argument. It doesn't work.
True story: when I was in high school (Wash DC), one of my friends got a job driving one of those ice cream trucks. A few days after he got the job he began dealing (pot and acid) along with the popsicles and ice-cream sandwiches and began a regular route at local high schools.
He was raking it in so much that he recruited others to join him and for one glorious spring they had pretty much every high school in northern VA and suburban Maryland covered.
It's the perfect cover while it lasts.
Lazy...and stupid...
Good point!
I'll have my people start rounding them up.
but
I read the paper every morning and say-
"hey! I thought my guy lost but evidently not..."
but fucking growers don't have a "right" to take over forests to grow their crop. they don't "need" to use that land. that shit is ridiculous. they poison the land, steal water from nature, hurt native plants and animals, and run innocent hikers off with guns, dogs whatever. it is evil.
i don't care if the illegality of pot "causes" this kind of grow op, it is still plain old wrong. two wrongs don't make a right.
yeah, and the govt is a total hypocrite - selling off public land to loggers. that is wrong too. three wrongs don't make a right.
Some fucking 'change', Barack.
Bold face fucking lie from a coward. Fuck you Gil.
There is not one recorded case of anyone ever overdosing on marijuana, because its not even physiologically possible.
And what is the number one overdose method you ask: legal prescription pain killers.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/th…
Right now, the medical marijuana community in California is setting a sales tax at the collectives. Not only that, but medical growing operations are subjected to numerous taxes as well. The government is working on a "show me the money" basis. Once they see the bottom line, they'll be motivated to legalize across the board. But, make no mistake, this is going to be a long fight for those who are pushing for legalization just in California alone.
If EVERYONE who believes marijuana (and hemp) should be legalized spoke out to their governmental represenatives, pot would be legalized sooner than it will if they just prattle on about it on web sites like this.
Personally, I give regularly to Marijuana Policy Project - an organization working diligently to reform marijuana laws (and no, I am not affiliated with them).
We're 40 percent of the US GDP.
Without our help they got NOTHING.
So is tobacco and alcohol, but that we sell by the train load. Makes zero sense to me unless you want to argue that prohibiton doesn't work.