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Cops Make Major Hibiscus Bust (thinkng it's marijuana)
Fox News ^ | 08/04/2004 | staff

Posted on 08/04/2004 5:55:39 AM PDT by BJClinton

Texas cops thought they'd made a major drug bust when they raided a home northwest of Houston last Tuesday. After all, it looked like there were huge marijuana plants growing in the front yard.

"All of a sudden, they burst in with their guns loaded, pointing at me, screaming, 'Get on the floor! Get on the floor!'" northwest Harris County resident Blair Davis told KHOU-TV.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: barneyfife; hibiscus; marijuana; pot; wod; wosd
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To: green iguana
So am I, but I doubt they smashed in the door in this case. As I understand it, that sort of warrant serving is only legal when the police believe that the occupant of the house could get rid of the evidence if they are given a bit of time. As the full sized plants were outside in the front yard, that doesn't seem to apply here.

"All of a sudden, they burst in with their guns loaded, pointing at me, screaming, 'Get on the floor! Get on the floor!'" northwest Harris County resident Blair Davis told KHOU-TV.

Sure sounds like a dynamic entry to me. I don't think common sense or legality concerns these folks.

121 posted on 08/04/2004 8:38:51 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: BJClinton

Police officer says, "That is one high biscus."


122 posted on 08/04/2004 8:41:11 AM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: B.O. Plenty
I've read about 80 posts before coming back to you and replying:

It's been a remarkably mild arguement so far...must mean everyone's read thier latest National Review.

123 posted on 08/04/2004 9:02:50 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: Sir Gawain
That is one funny show!

(As she maces yet another citizen)..."Say hay hay!"

124 posted on 08/04/2004 9:07:28 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: Stew Padasso

That is very true!


125 posted on 08/04/2004 9:15:08 AM PDT by B4Ranch (----http://www.firearmsid.com/----"Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.")
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To: CindyDawg

Just reread it and you'll see I'm being foolish with sincere questions.


126 posted on 08/04/2004 9:16:44 AM PDT by B4Ranch (----http://www.firearmsid.com/----"Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.")
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To: headsonpikes
Fanatic-free thread placemarker!

Color me confused. What does that mean?
127 posted on 08/04/2004 9:27:09 AM PDT by BJClinton (Stop hair pollution!)
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To: Atlantic Friend
Hemp production is outlawed in the USA ?

Yep.
U.S. federal law prohibits its production in the United States though allows hemp-based products to be marketed.

128 posted on 08/04/2004 9:31:50 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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To: BJClinton
"Fanatic-free" - What does that mean?

It means the thread has not been trashed by apologists for the deeply irrational and unConstitutional WOD:

The ones who claim Soros-financed conspiracies are the only people agitating for repeal of modern Prohibition.

The ones who claim that the government can do anything it wants, as long as the Courts support it - "We done it all nice and legal."

The ones who have ODed on government agitprop Koolaid.

The ones who can usually find a smarmy rationale for these types of shameful abuses.

So these fanatics are lying low - which is a good thing! ;^)

129 posted on 08/04/2004 9:43:28 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: dread78645

Oh. Well, if some teen tries to smoke industrial hemp to get stoned, the poor wretch's gonna be 65 and have lung cancer before he even feels a tingle. The THC rate of industrial hemp is reaaaaal low !


130 posted on 08/04/2004 9:48:05 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: headsonpikes; Brilliant
Ah, I tend to avoid WoD threads for that reason. I'm quite "anti-drug" but to me the WoD is a lot like welfare: it was started with good intentions but is a proven failure. I like Brilliant's suggestion for changing the WoD, FWIW.
131 posted on 08/04/2004 9:59:56 AM PDT by BJClinton (Stop hair pollution!)
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To: OXENinFLA

ROFLMCO, maybe the ice cream truck driver got into an argument with the customer over hibisscus plants???

This is too much for me! LOL

I presume the Hibisscus weren't in bloom at the time??? This is too funny!


132 posted on 08/04/2004 10:03:24 AM PDT by Kackikat (,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

It tells me that we are spending way too much money on fighting War on Drugs, and that we should be investigating where that money is going. It also means that in all the years we have been spending that money, we haven't made one iota of difference in consumption or cost. It is still a lucrative black market and more and more dealers getting into it every day.

History of the Prohibition of Alcohol should have taught us something, but it obviously did not. We should be taking those dealers off the street, taking our children back from their influence, and letting the taxation and regulation do the job that cannot be done any other way. Legalize marijuana, tax it, show ID to buy it and the consumption will go way down.

Instead we drug the children of America with Ritlin and other drugs per schools and teachers who don't want to deal with normal children, drugs that are equal to morphine and cocaine. Our views are warped in USA on this issue.


133 posted on 08/04/2004 10:13:14 AM PDT by Kackikat (,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
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To: ruiner

"If cigarettes were illegal and we know that they cause lung cancer, would you lobby for it to become legal and therefore inflict cancer on its users?"

If Big Macs were illegal and we know that they cause obesity, would you lobby for it to become legal and therefore inflict obesity on its consumers?

yes to both.....why anyone else get to decide what people do with their own bodies. I don't tell you what you can do with yours.


134 posted on 08/04/2004 10:26:51 AM PDT by monday
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To: sweetliberty

"Do y'all have any competent cops down there. I've never seen any evidence of it."

Nope. All S*** for brains jerk offs!


135 posted on 08/04/2004 10:32:01 AM PDT by monday
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To: Atlantic Friend
"Yes, I agree. And the pot money helps the cartels finance their other operations, which are much more dangerous to our lives."

Legalize marijauana and the "pot money" would finance American farmers not cartels. Thats the thing about prohibition. Whether alcohol in the 30's or pot now, it always makes criminals rich and powerful. It's almost as if the drug warriors want to increase organized crime and finance terrorism.
136 posted on 08/04/2004 10:38:00 AM PDT by monday
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To: monday

See my previous posts. I agree with you, however given that we're forced into health plans because costs have skyrocketed for even common ailments, these cancers etc effect my pocketbook now.

Thats why government health systems are so insidious, the give the government a good REASON to care about what you eat, smoke and drink.

I'm 26yo, 5;8" 165lbs. I'm sick once every 3 years with a cold, nothing more. When I was unemployed I had to pay 200 a month for medical coverage. That's INSANE. The reason is because I have to support all the obese, cigarette smoking drug abusers that also need coverage.


137 posted on 08/04/2004 10:51:36 AM PDT by ruiner
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To: B.O. Plenty
As I see it, there are two solutions to the WOD....either we get REALY tough...like summary execution for dealers AND users....or legalization.

Even the hardest of the hardline approach doesn't seem very effective:

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Iran

"Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade"

-- International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Iran

Tackling Iran's heroin habit

Iran has the world's highest proportion of heroin addicts and a growing Aids problem

-- Tackling Iran's heroin habit

138 posted on 08/04/2004 2:29:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: justshutupandtakeit
The 9/11 Report says that on 9/11 the FBI had twice as much manpower devoted to fighting the War on Drugs than it did fighting the War on Terror. What does that tell you?

Do you have a link handy?

139 posted on 08/04/2004 3:24:11 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

No sorry, I am reading it the old fashioned way as a book. It is on page 77 of the paperback published by Norton.


140 posted on 08/05/2004 7:22:06 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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