Stocker, 61, said enforcing marijuana laws gets in the way of pursuing other drug crimes and called warnings about the ills of marijuana “a bunch of baloney” that even people in a Republican stronghold like South Dakota no longer believe.
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And here in Tennessee, you can still get busted for residue of 'a green leafy substance' in an empty baggie.
In 1970, Nixon, when presented with the opportunity to legalize, or at least de-criminalize, pot, instead established the DEA in 1973, a major blunder that cost Americans billions of dollars over the years, money that went into the coffers of the wealthy and ruling class in this country, which explains why it was delayed for so long in the legalization process....my opinion only....too many people in high places making money off of illegal pot, of which I would suspect includes Joe Biden and many more of our "fine upstanding lawmakers"....
ReplyDeleteThe FBN had been going after marijuana since at least the 1930s, so Nixon wasn't exactly breaking new ground. Right, wrong, or indifferent, the government's been against it for quite a long time.
DeleteSmoke all you want. But don't expect me to finance your habit, support you if you can't keep a job, clean up your mess, or pay your insurance bills. You want to toke up, take the responsibility for the consequences.
ReplyDeleteAgree! Same goes for abusers of tobacco & alcohol, as well as the overly obese.
DeleteEveryone I know that smokes has a job and works their ass off.
DeleteBig problem with your statement. Tokers drive on our roads, along with tobacco smokers and obese people and alcohol drinkers.
DeleteIf tokers drive like they work (and they do), then they are a bigger threat to other drivers than anyone else. I have had tokers working for me, and they are trash. They think their work performance is better than ever before when sober, and it is NOT. Keep recreational pot illegal or control it very tightly. Or just snuff all users.
I live in a New England State. ME VT and MA have all legalized the growing of weed, by any individual, up to six plants per person in some cases.
ReplyDeleteThis is all part of plan. Take away some of our most important rights, but let us get high anytime we want to lessen the pain.
Nemo
^^^^THIS^^^^ They want us numb to their tyranny.
DeleteMy first drug patrol was in 1978 (USCG), as we taxied out the pilot announced "we are going out to do our part on keeping the price of drugs up on the street".
ReplyDeleteThat was an accurate description.
Watch the movie “ How to Make Money selling Drugs”. Its kind of a documentary. Its not what the title suggest but it explains while weed is still illegal. Like always its the money and Uncle Sugar is killing it.
ReplyDeleteI vote in SD, I voted in opposition to this measure. Drugs cost all of us, users and non users alike.
ReplyDeleteI did vote to allow the Indians to have gambling houses in the state. Figuring what the hell, we screwed then out of their culture. And if one is foolish enough to go into a casino thats on them.
Well, technically, the Indians for the most part screwed themselves by not following treaties and raiding and being generally loose with the concept of not stirring up shit.
DeleteAs to casinos, it's funny that the money from said casinos tends to stay within the chief's organization and if you disagree, you don't get a cut.
And casino money is the #1 reason Indians refuse to use DNA as proof of tribal status.
"Well, technically, the Indians for the most part screwed themselves by not following treaties and raiding and being generally loose with the concept of not stirring up shit."
DeleteTrue, to a point. The problem the Indians had was that they had no real enforcement means. If a chief agreed to a treaty on the part of his tribe, he had no means of forcing everyone to go along with it. Any who wanted to raid, simply left the chief's band, formed their own, and raided as they pleased.
Treaties work reasonably well with Westphalian Nation-States, but not very well with less structured entities. It would be like signing a peace deal with ISIS, alQaida, Antifa, etc.: the most the treaty would actually bind would be those within the subgroup that signed it.
Hell, look what happened in Northern Ireland. As soon as the Provos agreed to the Good Friday Agreement, other groups (Real IRA, Continuity IRA) split off to keep fighting.
What humans want to do, as long as it doesn’t affect someone else, feel free.
ReplyDeleteNext on the list - SUDAFED! The dimbulbs in DC decided that to buy decongestant, you need ID, sign, etc. (some states worse than others)
For all the bullshit, what we got on the street was meth that is more prevalent, cheaper and in many regions, higher quality. Good job DC!!
I'm predicting SSRI's/Antidepressants will be the next bar to firearms ownership.
DeleteBilly Strings sings about Dust in a Baggie!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkUGDYjYgMs&feature=emb_rel_end