right2bright on October 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM

So; The DOJ goes to work every day and plays solitaire and online poker?

I just watched the special on TV last night about a town overtaken by people gutting houses to grow that crap, the fires from the stupidity and so on. They let the genie out of the bottle now we watch as these nit wits live for the weed.

Firstly, the grow houses were ran by criminal elements and greedy people that don’t care about their neighbors. These people do exist on every street. And yes, idiots smoke week just as any other scenario that you can think up. Idiots drink beer, drive cars, serve you food, manage you, work for you etc. What’s your point? To half-way legalize/decrim something is asking for even more trouble in the first place. You keep the black-market in place in tandem with a semi-legal one. Bad combo

It was like an episode of ‘body snatchers’ where they had to thrive to grow more pods.

You’re going to have to explain this one because it sounds like pure hyperbole.

Of course they’d love to see us numb from whats going on, so spread the weed right? un-f’n real.

What’s goin’ on down on your street everyday? I could care less about spreading weed and you’d be suprised to learn that hardly anyone cares about spreading weed. Except for the criminal element that is enriched and empowered due to the blackmarket created. If it were legal the I’d just throw some seeds in my backyard, done.

Never seen it. I do know, from The War Wagon, that one in eight cowboys had 2 Chinese wives.

Chris_Balsz on October 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM

opium guaranteed, right?

Are you kidding? Drugs were a huge problem in olden days. Haven’t you watched Tombstone?

whiskeytango on October 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Never seen it. I do know, from The War Wagon, that one in eight cowboys had 2 Chinese wives.

right2bright on October 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM

You’re spot on. It’s a political play pure and simple; not the solution.

It’s not that drugs were prevalent and normal, and government caught on to the bureaucratic usefulness of a crackdown. Drug use was not rampant until we agreed to make earning a living, irrelevant to obtaining the means to survival.

Chris_Balsz on October 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM

Are you kidding? Drugs were a huge problem in olden days. Haven’t you watched Tombstone?

Guilt by association is a logical fallacy. Just FYI.

SirGawain on October 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM

No, guilt by association is a logical analysis…part of the analytical puzzle.
The term “guilt by association” is born from the liberals trying to deny that Obama going to a leftist church, friend of Ayres, friend of Dorn, friend of ACORN, were associations that prove nothing…you bought the liberal line.

I’m not sure if I should agree or disagree or possibly learn something from you here. Mainly, because I have no idea of what talking about. Clarify, please.
whiskeytango on October 20, 2009 at 8:20 AM

It’s not that drugs were prevalent and normal, and government caught on to the bureaucratic usefulness of a crackdown. Drug use was not rampant until we agreed to make earning a living, irrelevant to obtaining the means to survival.

I am so disgusted right now I don’t know what to say.

Um, you wanna talk the history of government and the drug trade, check when drug culture really takes off: when we say you’re ENTITLED to a home, ENTITLED to an income, ENTITLED to health care.

Chris_Balsz on October 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM

I’m not sure if I should agree or disagree or possibly learn something from you here. Mainly, because I have no idea of what talking about. Clarify, please.

You vote for slavery to a weed and the man that grows it.

Count to 10 on October 19, 2009 at 2:21 PM

Marijuana is not addictive. Don’t want to buy it? Like you would with any plant, grow it yourself!

That stuff is great too. More expensive, but legal.

Rightwingguy on October 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM

Yeah it is, but actually if I had a half ounce of weed on the table when the State Trooper dropped in he would not even blink as it would be legal for me to have that in my home (this is my residence address). High Times Magazine went nuts over the fact that pot became legal here in 1975. It did not change our state one iota. However, there is a problem with all other drugs in all areas of the state now, and it is not a good thing. DOC is one of the leading industries in this state and I am sure most of the parole/probation violations are drug related. As with probably any other state in the union. Pot is never going to go away. Other drugs maybe, but not pot.

It is ridiculously potent these days, this ain’t your daddy’s weed from the ’60s.

Daemonocracy on October 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM

That’s great news! In the 60′s, from the sound of it, weed was pathetically impotent. People had to smoke massive quantities to achieve the desired result causing far more harm to their lungs than the more potent varieties available today.

The reality is that physiology hasn’t changed since the “’60s”. Not even since 60 A.D. Humans are humans. If they imbibe too much THC, they fall asleep. People smoke as much as they need to—too much and it ruins the high. So the more potent MJ is the less harm it causes to their lungs, because they don’t have to ingest as much particulate matter. The high is the same, perhaps a somewhat better today than in the 60′s, but the harm is significantly reduced.

Net gain.

However, it is a myth that MJ is more potent today than any time in history. MJ was sold by drug companies in the 20′s that was more potent than available presently.