Posted on 01/31/2003 3:28:07 PM PST by MikalM
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A federal jury Friday found Ed Rosenthal, the author of how-to-grow books on marijuana and how to avoid the law, guilty of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy charges.
Deliberating for a day, the 12-member jury concluded that Rosenthal, the self described "Guru of Ganja," was growing more than 1,000 plants, conspiring to cultivate marijuana and maintaining a warehouse for a growing operation. He faces a maximum life term when sentenced June 4.
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Those words only apply to a moral government following moral laws. Nice try though.
Precisely what the FOUNDERS were after. Maximizing freedom.
When would-be bank-robbers decide to walk away from a caper, we don't wring our moralizing hands that these miscreants hadn't seen the light. No. Society is content enough that they decided to walk away from doing evil today.
L.P. founder P.T. Barnum, cases a joint with Mumbles and Scarface.
And that is why they were big on piety and morality, which alone are the foundations of liberty.
Of course, we have laws against stealing because such an act deprives another of their right to property.
Laws against the possession or use of marijuana are, indeed, designed to "enforce morality onto those who do not share it," since the mere use or possession of marijuana deprives no other person of his Constitutionally-enumerated rights. The only possible justification for such a law is either that smoking pot itself is immoral or that doing so may lead to some future immoral act (most which can be imagined are likely already prohibited by law).
My Church holds that it is never moral to do evil so that good may result. Depriving someone of his liberty so that some future imagined immorality does not occur is the worst sort of evil I can imagine.
"God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."
Ed did. For many years.
--Boot Hill
Yes indeed. Back when they wouldn't have allowed a Federal Law banning a plant.
As opposed to our immoral legislators who now do.
Glad you've come around.
No one, since I don't obey immoral laws.
But who said I did?
I don't smoke crack either, but wouldn't let an immoral law stop me if I wanted to.
But I do want to go to Atlantic City once. For gambling. Not hookers.
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