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Bush targets marijuana smokers
The Observer ^ | July 25, 2004 | Richard Luscombe

Posted on 07/25/2004 1:12:55 AM PDT by MadIvan

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To: rmmcdaniell

Maybe Bush will use this as a rationale to really close the borders. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUSH..... !!! After all most dopers vote DEM anyway. At least that is what all the felon doper inmates say.


61 posted on 07/25/2004 11:39:53 AM PDT by tertiary01 (Can't the Dems ever offer a candidate that isn't a lawyer!!)
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To: BeAllYouCanBe

Amen


62 posted on 07/25/2004 11:45:21 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Wolfie
LOL...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alarmed by reports that marijuana is becoming more potent than ever and that children are trying it at younger and younger ages, U.S. officials are changing their drug policies.
(MarijuanaNews note: Beginning with the claim that officials are “alarmed” sets the tone and indicates an acceptance of the official position.)

They did the same thing here!
Nice link.
63 posted on 07/25/2004 11:45:32 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: Cultural Jihad
ROTFLMAO!
It's not a matter of "legalizing" anything. Puppies, daisies, Rosaries and marijuana have nothing to do with it.

Hold people responsible for their own actions. If you ruin your life it's your fault, not marijuana smoking or saying the Rosary!

Drug laws protect drug dealers.
64 posted on 07/25/2004 11:56:23 AM PDT by mugs99 (Restore the Constitution)
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To: MadIvan

More potency means it takes fewer hits to get high which means less lung damage. And the problem is...??


65 posted on 07/25/2004 12:10:40 PM PDT by mcmac22
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To: AntiGuv
I like this part of Vab's rant on his profile page...

Our Constitution is indeed the foundation that this Nation stands on but to honestly believe in the possibility of a return to the original state of national and international affairs that our Nation enjoyed when the document was written and established is willfully infantile and ignorant. A return to our original Constitutional Government is by itself extremely unlikely but to argue for that desire now in light of the situation we are currently in is simply bitter and contrarian as well as not constructive.

Aparently our friend is a fan of the Al Gore "living constitution" school of thought.

66 posted on 07/25/2004 12:40:49 PM PDT by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: A CA Guy
God bless the President. Protecting us as he can against terrorists and now also furthering the protection of our culture and youth.

You sure do like the government taking care of you, don't you?

67 posted on 07/25/2004 12:42:52 PM PDT by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: jmc813

Well, I would be happy to throw the switch myself on drug dealers, but being they are the same as terrorists, I am not contrary to the US doing it's job.


68 posted on 07/25/2004 12:54:38 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: mcmac22

Well said.

I get tired of arguing the issue with the same old reefer-madness CINOs.

http://www.leap.cc


69 posted on 07/25/2004 1:04:51 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: Indie

"get tired of arguing the issue "

In my town in California I have been a police volunteer and I can tell you that almost nothing is done about marijuana possession. I don't think too many places in the US spend police resources on chasing pot dealers.

My wife is a high school teacher and she complains about drugged-up kids all the time and there is a cost to our society of kids missing their teen years stoned.


70 posted on 07/25/2004 2:14:10 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (You are what you eat.)
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To: Indie

"get tired of arguing the issue "

In my town in California I have been a police volunteer and I can tell you that almost nothing is done about marijuana possession. I don't think too many places in the US spend police resources on chasing pot dealers.

My wife is a high school teacher and she complains about drugged-up kids all the time and there is a cost to our society of kids missing their teen years stoned.


71 posted on 07/25/2004 2:14:17 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (You are what you eat.)
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To: BeAllYouCanBe

"In my town in California I have been a police volunteer and I can tell you that almost nothing is done about marijuana possession. I don't think too many places in the US spend police resources on chasing pot dealers."


according to:
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States:2002, published 2003, (Section IV,p.4). In 2002, marijuana-related arrests accounted for 45.3% of all drug arrests. Multiply this percentage by the total number of drug arrests for the same year (1,538,815) to get the number of marijuana-related arrests: 697,083.

88% of those arrests were for possession alone.

http://www.stopteenuse.com


72 posted on 07/25/2004 2:35:56 PM PDT by mcmac22
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To: BeAllYouCanBe
My wife is a high school teacher and she complains about drugged-up kids all the time and there is a cost to our society of kids missing their teen years stoned.

I'd be willing to bet that the majority of those kids are doped up on government-approved drugs such as ritalin.

73 posted on 07/25/2004 2:41:20 PM PDT by ActionNewsBill ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act")
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To: garylmoore

" not the dumb ass that you say he is, very disrespectful I must say"

To whom, or to what?


74 posted on 07/25/2004 3:44:15 PM PDT by cavan
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To: MadIvan

75 posted on 07/25/2004 3:49:37 PM PDT by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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To: The Libertarian Dude

"what a waste of resources. Bush"

Kinda says it all.


76 posted on 07/25/2004 3:49:57 PM PDT by cavan
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To: BeAllYouCanBe
I think that there is a danger to those who may use pot and not know they have higher strenght weed.

How could they not realize it is stronger? Seems after a couple tokes and they would know.

77 posted on 07/25/2004 6:18:37 PM PDT by muggs (Political Correctness and Pandering For Votes Is Going to Get Americans Killed!)
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To: George W. Bush

If the death tolls were counted daily on TV for the 'War on Drugs' as they are in the 'War on Terror' than the WOD would have ended long ago. For the safety and security of the people of this nation it is essential that efforts at the borders to intradict terrorists are not distracted by herb traders. Relegalize now and we can restore the right of the good people of this country to reap what they sow at the same time we free our border patrols from falsely puritannical talibanesque endeavors.


78 posted on 07/25/2004 6:25:42 PM PDT by PaxMacian
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To: BeAllYouCanBe

The simple fact of the matter is market factors are driving the increase in potency. High quality hydroponically grown clones of high potency strains are selling well because of the fear factor spawned by the government insistence on linking the war on drugs with the war on terror. It simply makes sense to make fewer purchases of a higher potency herb in order to decrease potential contact with our adversaries and besides it is grown indoors and thereby pesticide free.


79 posted on 07/25/2004 6:50:20 PM PDT by PaxMacian
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To: wyattearp

Galatians 6
6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

You insult the virtue of another plant in support of what?
Poison oak may or may not cause you some discomfort but that doesn't discount the fact that it supplies a major winter staple for wildlife further down the food chain.

GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE IT TO MAN

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.


80 posted on 07/25/2004 7:07:04 PM PDT by PaxMacian
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