I can see how they made the mistake.
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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Sounds like an episode of RENO 911 ... too bad this is real life, with real guns and real consequences.
I feel safer already.
I'm sure this won't be popular on Freerepublic, but in my opinion, they should simply legalize marijuana. It's a waste of resources to enforce laws against a narcotic that is not a whole lot more dangerous than alchohol, if at all.
Government... defending your freedom from hibiscus. Just say "No!" to hibiscus!
Barney Fyffe is alive and well in Harris County. :o)
More popular than you might think - I for one am not exactly thrilled about having my wallet robbed to pay for citizen harassment, and I don't see how this effort is going to be any more successful than Prohibition.
How in the world did they mistake Hibiscus for pot?
To a real Nark, there are no citizens, only Perps.
So9
"...they should simply legalize marijuana."
Either that, or arrest all children who spin around to get dizzy.
The support this position gets will probably surprise you. You can also expect a fierce debate.
</can-of worms> </can-of worms> </can-of worms>...
Oh crap, it's not working.
I agree but it ain't gonna happen.
Too many otherwise worthless lawyers make their livings off pot busts, not to mention the billions in reeducation programs, counseling mandated by courts etc etc.
I can be neutral because I am an oddity in my circles in that I do not bother with the stuff. Of all the people I know whose lives were ruined by substances, alcohol tops the list, followed by a smaller number of cocaine problems.
To include pot with those substances is a legal fiction, and apparantly the Public has "nullified" that law without judicial sanction. If joints were distributed after the Rodney King verdict, there would have been no riots. People may have intended to riot, or even planned to. But not right then, maybe sometime later, or tomorrow or sometime...what was I saying?
I confess that I took a puff or two when I was in college 30 years ago. It was no big deal. Of course, there is the slippery slope theory, but then maybe we should ban alcohol on that theory as well. Make it legal, but tax it up the wazzoo, like they do cigarettes.
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?
I don't know if you've noticed this...but this city is involved in a "war on drugs."
Carter:
How's that going?
Flaherty:
Any day now!
"Oh crap, it's not working."
Psssssst. Are you smoking something, buddy?
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