98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits

NORML w/ DEA links ^

[Republicanus_Tyrannus]

Here's a solution for both the stoners and the people who are against reintroducing legal marijuana use:

1. Legalize it to be sold as alcohol is legalized, with all the strictures and taxes involved, allowing it to be sold only to those over 18.

2. The following penalties would apply to illegal distribution:
(a) 10 years prison for any who supply or sell it to minors.
(b) 20 years prison for second violation
(c) Death by hanging/life in prison for 3rd violation

3. The following penalties would apply to any intoxicated person operating a motor vehicle:
(a) 5 years prison for first offense
(b) 10 years prison for second offense
(c) Death by hanging or life in prison for operating a public vehicle (school bus, police vehicle, etc) first offense. Same for 3rd offense private vehicle

4. The following would be the penalty of public THC intoxication:
(a) 180 days in jail, first offense
(b) 50 lashes with horsewhip, 2 years in prison 2nd offense.
(c) 30 years in prison, 3rd and subsequent offenses.

That should be sufficient, I would think.

[corkoman]

Legalize it to be sold as alcohol is legalized, with all the strictures and taxes involved,

Death by hanging/life in prison for 3rd violation Death by hanging or life in prison for operating a public vehicle (school bus, police vehicle, etc) first offense. Same for 3rd offense private vehicle 50 lashes with horsewhip, 2 years in prison 2nd offense.

Ok - one the one hand you say legalize it like alcohol but yet the penalties are to be greater than doing the same thing with weed as for alcohol?

Why don't we apply your solution to alcohol so we can all gather round as you are horsewhipped. Nice to watch rascally totalitarians get their comeuppance.

[DannyTN]

IF IF IF it's true that feral hemp has practically no mind alterating substances, AND if it cannot easily be bred to have them, then it would seem a logical tactic in the war on drugs, to grow feral hemp and flood the market with it. If buyers have a very low chance of getting good hemp vs useless weed, then the pot market will collapse. The WOD doesn't care if people smoke.

[RightWhale]

This is funny. It used to grow along railroad tracks, too. My grandmother told me that it was everywhere but nobody was interested in it.

[supercat]

By my understanding, plants grown as "marijuana" are the same species as ditchweed, but are selectively bred so as to enhance THC production. Wouldn't having large quantities of ditchweed in the wild tend to cause cross-polination of "marijuana" plants, thus degrading them?

[P-40]

My grandmother told me that it was everywhere but nobody was interested in it.

We knew what it was and what it could do...but we weren't really interested in it. Pot was seen as strictly a drug for losers.

[P-40]

Wouldn't having large quantities of ditchweed in the wild tend to cause cross-polination of "marijuana" plants, thus degrading them?

Yes. I suspect that the pot growers do what they can to prevent cross-pollination. For our grain experiments, we actually covered the seed heads of the plants with little bags to prevent fertilization from undesirables.

[DannyTN]

"You can smoke it all day long and not get any THC out of it so I doubt it's illegal."

The criminal statute is probably written against Marijuana, not THC or both. And even if is written against THC, the burden of proof that you were smoking Marijuana that didn't contain THC would be on you, since most people expect weed to contain it.

[gafusa]

Definitely. I know pot is bad, it might not cause death, although since it has not been adequately studied, the long term effects are vague, though logically sucking chemical smoke into your lungs is a very bad idea. But I have seen the mental effects, it can really screw you up. I have seen people it has made barely able to function, and have seen it become an obsession, it becomes their life. People claim it is not addictive, but I have seen people that have become completely reliant on it. Pot is bad stuff, maybe not overly lethal, but death is not the only bad thing that can happen to you. For all you pro-pot people out their, use logic. Ingesting mind altering chemicals without medical necessity or any set dosage is a very bad idea. Might as well start using hardcore pain killers without prescription or you doctors approval, and take as many as you want. I do not think you will argue that will mess you up.

[I see my hands]

"My source is all the messed up potheads [sic] I have seen over the years."

I asked what your source was for your dismissive comments re NORML. Not about your impression of pot heads. (Please review your own words).

You converse like a lib.

[tpaine]

I certainly believe it. I grew up where the ditches were full of the stuff...not that anyone really cared all that much.

Me too; -- Minnesota fields were full of the stuff, [probably still are] and the only people that were even aware of it [in the early '50s] were farm workers, gypsies, & black musicians..

[DannyTN]

"I don't know, to me it just seems a little blasphemous for a nation to tell God that His creation has been outlawed."

God gave man dominion over the earth and authorized civil governments. That includes the rights to make laws and outlaw whatever.

God gave man sheep too, but didn't condone everything that man has thought up to do with those sheep. He gave herbs for food and medicine, nowhere does it say that he gave them to smoke and inhale and get high on.

[robertpaulsen]

I'll make you a deal. Let's implement numbers 2,3, and 4 first, then we'll consider #1.

[gafusa]

Read post 52. Good also gave us crude oil. But I doubt you smoke it. An potassium cyanide, go hit up some of that, though I am not sure it is smokable, but hell give it a shot. Just because God made something does not mean you should do everything you want with it. It does not say use it for whatever recreational purpose you want. Good gave us everything to be used RESPONSIBLY, not for your pleasure.

[MineralMan]

"Good gave us everything to be used RESPONSIBLY, not for your pleasure.
"

Oh, I see. So pleasure is IRRESPONSIBLE, then. I get it now. Boy, I guess a lot of people have been wrong for a very long time, right?

Boy, you must not be much fun to be around.

[bert]

Me? no officer that grass is feral grass. It looks like common ol ditchweed to me.

[coloradan]

Well, if the DEA is successful enough, ditchweed might become endangered, in which case it will win federal protection as an endangered species, and disturbing it will then become a felony.

[Lexington Green]

Drug War Resitance Tip - Plant Your Seeds

[TKDietz]

Sounds like the government is doing the illegal marijuana industry a great service by pulling up all the low potency feral hemp so that it does not pollinate cultivated marijuana plots and degrade the potency of future generations of these strains prized for their high THC content.

You know if people wanted to play "Willie Weed Seed" planting marijuana seeds from higher potency strains everywhere it seems like what they ought to do is follow the ditchweed eradication officers and plant good pot seeds wherever ditchweed has been eradicated because those spots are obviously ideal for marijuana growth without irrigation and fertilizer. That would bring the potency of wild marijuana in this country way up, with the help of the government of course.

[corkoman]

God gave man sheep too, but didn't condone everything that man has thought up to do with those sheep. He gave herbs for food and medicine, nowhere does it say that he gave them to smoke and inhale and get high on.

Oh really? So these naughty vegetables have rules? Seems to me His Son made wine and unless you tell me that folks drink wine for the taste then I'd say God surely intended for us to enjoy life and alcohol sure seems to do that for a lot of people.

Maybe not you.

Good luck with the rules thing. The Nanny State needs you.