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Marijuana figures big in Ferguson meltdown
renewamerica.com/ ^ | 29, 2014 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 11/29/2014 3:04:45 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Edited on 11/29/2014 3:16:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: DaveA37

The leftist media such a cancer on our culture.

Making excuses for pot is immature and irresponsible. It has no place here.


41 posted on 11/29/2014 5:34:58 AM PST by smoothsailing (Mel Kaminsky for President!!!)
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To: epluribus_2

“Helps with recreational looting and recreational arson.”

Gateway drugs encourage gateway crimes.


42 posted on 11/29/2014 5:42:54 AM PST by moovova
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To: FreedomStar3028; Berlin_Freeper
Marijuana figures big in Ferguson meltdown,...

More likely...


43 posted on 11/29/2014 5:50:00 AM PST by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: greatvikingone

REERER MADNESS...women cry for it; men die for it.


44 posted on 11/29/2014 6:04:15 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This reminded me of the soldier, decorated for single handedly holding off an attack on his unit in Vietnam, who later on claimed that he was hugely stoned just before and during the attack. The effects of THC are nothing like alcohol and it’s possible to imagine a kind of detachment from what was going on and a feeling that that he was just observing what his body was responding to on its own. That could also maybe describe what was going through the brain of Michael Brown up to the moment a bullet passed through instead.


45 posted on 11/29/2014 6:10:09 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Nothing to see here, we have been assured by internet experts that marijuana is completely harmless, not associated with crime and is in fact a natural medicine without harmful side effects.


46 posted on 11/29/2014 6:31:54 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Taking tokes for Michael!

The thugs should all be thrown in jail.


47 posted on 11/29/2014 6:38:02 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's the old (and persistent) "does weed cause abnormal behavior, or are abnormal people more likely to use weed?" argument. The recent legalization of the drug (which assumes more use) in a number of States will be good laboratories for studying this question. The larger the sample, the better.

As a side note, it is pretty well known that while many whites use weed, its use is much higher in the black communities. Is use of weed at an early age by blacks one of the causes of high crime and low educational performance? That would be an interesting area of study.

But then you'd have to find populations of blacks who have very low usages of weed and other drugs to make a comparison.

48 posted on 11/29/2014 7:19:49 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

My observations of people smoking pot are that they are more likely to spend an hour talking about the amazing colors in your shirt than to riot.


49 posted on 11/29/2014 7:22:58 AM PST by jonathonandjennifer
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Can you find me a link to an article that posits cigarette smoking is harmful but that smoking pot is healthy?

I’ve looked. I can’t.

Can you?


50 posted on 11/29/2014 7:49:09 AM PST by dmz
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To: FreedomStar3028; knarf

Nice to be able to have a reasoned conversation with someone. Oh wait, that doesn’t appear to be happening.


51 posted on 11/29/2014 8:17:56 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Well there ya go! This proves it. (Whatever “it” is.)


52 posted on 11/29/2014 8:20:02 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: wbarmy
So, you and the mainstream media agree that marijuana is totally and completely harmless? Even if there is scientific studies which show it isn’t.

I am hard pressed to think of anything that is totally and completely harmless.

53 posted on 11/29/2014 8:35:29 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I guess any ole excuse will do...


54 posted on 11/29/2014 8:57:11 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Eagles6
"Nice to be able to have a reasoned conversation with someone"

Have you ever been high ?

Were you out of control and maniacal ?

Did you want to commit crime and mayhem ?

Or did you just want to laugh, eat chips and get laid ?

55 posted on 11/29/2014 9:04:57 AM PST by knarf
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To: knarf
I don't post my personal history on the Internet.

Antecdotally, both trayvon martin and michael brown were regular users. They both committed violent crimes with THC in their systems.

You may have heard of them.

56 posted on 11/29/2014 9:39:57 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: knarf

Dont you just love the “you and the mainstream media” part of her argument?


57 posted on 11/29/2014 9:49:21 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Eagles6

siigghhh


58 posted on 11/29/2014 9:58:31 AM PST by knarf
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To: gunsequalfreedom

The only way you can connect the words “you” (me) and “mainstream media” is if you’re promoting a boxing match


59 posted on 11/29/2014 10:00:33 AM PST by knarf
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To: gunsequalfreedom; wbarmy
So, you and the mainstream media agree that marijuana is totally and completely harmless? Even if there is scientific studies which show it isn’t.

I am hard pressed to think of anything that is totally and completely harmless.

Certainly not the violence-inducing deadly addictive legal drug alcohol - about which 95% of pro-pot-ban types are nonetheless strenuously silent.

60 posted on 11/29/2014 10:37:21 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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