Winning!
Posted on 07/13/2015 3:38:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy in their battle to stop the expanding industry: racketeering lawsuits.
A Colorado pot shop recently closed after a Washington-based group opposed to legal marijuana sued not just the pot shop but a laundry list of firms doing business with it—from its landlord and accountant to the Iowa bonding company guaranteeing its tax payments. One by one, many of the plaintiffs agreed to stop doing business with Medical Marijuana of the Rockies, until the mountain shop closed its doors and had to sell off its pot at fire-sale prices.
With another lawsuit pending in southern Colorado, the cases represent a new approach to fighting marijuana. If the federal government won’t stop its expansion, pot opponents say, federal racketeering lawsuits could. Marijuana may be legal under state law, but federal drug law still considers any marijuana business organized crime. …
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Very cool!
Ping!
Somewhere, Claude Wickard is smiling.
Here in Nashville recently a kid going to college in Kali got stopped at airport with 20k
For school etc
Airport cops not TSA took it
Freepers swoon
Crazy
Ben Franklin warned us about this.
That’s not industry except in the minds of drug fiends. I like that phrase: drug fiends.
Come to think of it, the phrase was dope fiends. Even better.
Good. The trouble making bastards need to rot in prison for working to screw up people's lives.
Winning!
Some people just love the police state.
Personally I just don’t even understand how this country survived before marihuana was banned in the 20th century.
It’s so dangerous that the founders should have banned it in the Constitution!
Sheesh
Oh yea not to mention what a near utopian society we have not achieved.
We are just a regulation or two away!
Pot Ping List!
Let me know if you want on or off.
H/T to KC_Lion!
Uhm, the people selling pot are just trying to make a living, just like the people selling booze.
If a customer screws up their life because of pot (or booze), it’s not the store’s fault; it’s the addict’s fault.
Maybe we should make booze illegal too so it doesn’t screw up people’s lives? Oh yeah, we tried that and it didn’t work either.
Maybe we should let the government tell us what’s good for us, and what’s bad for us so we don’t have to think or act like responsible adults.
Maybe we should go back to what made our country great; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If I puff on a doobie, how does that hurt you? Do you even know?
Like I always say, Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same dirty coin and some of the comments cheering the government’s overreach prove it.
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
Some people think "conservatism" means government pushing around different people than the liberals want government to push around.
Keeping marijuana in the black market makes streets less safe.
Booze has been with mankind for 10 million years. That horse has left the barn, and does not justify allowing another brain damaging narcotic to destroy people's lives.
If a customer screws up their life because of pot (or booze), it’s not the store’s fault; it’s the addict’s fault.
It is a mind altering drug for which the uninformed have no defense. It directly and chemically interferes with will power, rendering self-will impossible.
Maybe we should let the government tell us what’s good for us, and what’s bad for us so we don’t have to think or act like responsible adults.
No, we shouldn't do that. But we should grant them every necessary power to deal with serious threats to the lives of our populace, such as those constituted by illegal drugs being used for recreation. It is the DUTY of government to deal with dangerous threats, and drugs are a dangerous threat.
Maybe we should go back to what made our country great; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If I puff on a doobie, how does that hurt you? Do you even know?
If you lived on some desert island and smoked your doobie, you would be no problem for anyone. The problem arises when you allow the knowledge of that drug use out to others in such a manner as to encourage them to try it.
Your advocacy is the first step toward wrecking other people's lives. Had they no knowledge of it, they would not be tempted to try it, but because people such as yourself insist on doing it, the chances that people will remain unaware of it are nil.
I have personally known over a dozen people who screwed their lives up because of drugs, and they all started with pot. Pot breaks people into the drug usage cycle. It normalizes what is a very dangerous habit and behavior, and it is that normalization that hides the threat to people ignorant of the consequences.
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
No. I'm advocating for a functional nation that won't collapse into chaos the way China did 150 years ago when it legalized drugs. Legalized drugs caused the eventual deaths of 100 million people before the damage subsided.
For some users. There's no evidence that many of them are prevented or deterred from getting it by its illegality - meanwhile we spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars punishing the many who can handle it and those who supply them, thereby channeling more tens of billions into criminal hands.
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