Posted on 10/09/2006 5:52:07 PM PDT by SJackson
if pot was legal we wouldn't have mexican drug cartels turning all of California's national parks into armed pot farms. such a waste of time and money that gets the wrong people rich.
Pot needs to be decriminalized.
it ain't exactly like illegal means unavailable. it's a joke. the biggest lobbying group for keeping non-violent drug offenders in prison is the state correctional officers' union. talk about a vested interest.
Do what, now?
Gotcha, and concur completely. I missed it the first time; sorry.
This article is full of cr@p.
"...as an answer to the state's agricultural woes."
Oh, Woe Is Me! They just harvested 500 acres of soybean around my little farm in the past week. According to our Ag Report, it's been one of the BEST soybean crops ever! Everyone made money this year.
And please...when you grow a crop like hemp how much productivity can you really bank on up here in the North? "Bank" being the profitable word here. Change the mindset of Americans, then change the laws, then make yourself a legal livelihood growing the stuff...if you can in this climate, Global Warming or not. If it was that marketable up here, it would already be mainstream, would it not? Like Wheat or Corn or Soybean.
http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,959,00.html
Hippies. You know, I, too, don't care if people NEED to get high...but for Pete's Sake. Clean up your reputation as being lazy slackers and Woody Harrelson-wanna-bes! Get yourself some decent PR people and make me actually BELIEVE that growing pot is the salvo to all of my Ag-realted problems. Then maybe I'll grow it. Yeesh.
But good luck with that...The Smoke Gnatzies are p*ssed that Wisconsin is becoming a Tobacco State once again, as she was in the past. Get past the Smoke Gnatzies and it'll be Smooth Inhaling for all the Midwest Potheads out there, LOL!
"...and Miller played a tape of her agonized screams during physical therapy treatments without benefit of the drug."
What an ass. My StepMom died of Bone Cancer last fall. It truly is like being eaten alive from the inside out. She had Darvon to ease her pain and a wonderful (I can't thank them enough) Hospice Care worker who was on her game. For all of her problems, my Mom suffered little, comparatively.
If this moron couldn't find a legal way to help end his wife's painful suffering, then he's just evil.
And to then EXPLOIT her suffering after her death? Worse than evil, IMHO.
Bump!
"I personally know five "recreational" pot smokers who are very successful business owners. Their combined net worth is over $25M. "
What did they start with, nothing? I doubt it. I have been self employed since age 25(27 years) and I never met a doper I could trust, or who wasn't a slacker.
B T T T
Bill Gates?
Carl Sagan?
George Bush?
Bill Gates?
Carl Sagan?
George Bush?
Bill Gates made his initial money through his Judge(moms) connections at IBM. It was mom who arranged that the Windows system ownership be retained by Bill, and thus licensed to IBM. He ran with 2 billion, and turned it into 54 billion, and I doubt he smokes dope!
Carl Sagan is a pop culture flake. Nuff said
Bush made 14 million on the backend blow because his daddy had friends at Crowell,Whedon, and they got him the gig with the baseball team. I doubt he smokes dope, either. When it comes to finance, you are way, way out of your league, sonny. Step aside : )
Sperling was born in a log cabin and parlayed his $25,000 life savings into a multi million dollar company, and Lewis came from a fairly middle class background. Sperling went to Cambridge, and Lewis went to Princeton. Hardly the slacker types.
Easy for you to say, given your obvious obliviousness to the suffering of others. By the way, objectively speaking, Darvon (propoxyphene) is a much more dangerous substance than marijuana. Its side effects include physical addiction, confusion, convulsions, dizziness, low blood pressure, and weakness, and it has caused thousands of overdose deaths.
If this moron couldn't find a legal way to help end his wife's painful suffering, then he's just evil.
I'm sure she could have taken enough legally prescribed narcotics to kill her pain, but she was getting physical therapy at the time, which requires the patient to be an active participant rather than a decaying vegetable. Marijuana is a rae type of substance which lessens pain while allowing the patient to remain active.
"This from a wanna-be tobacco grower?"
Still a LEGAL crop to grow last time I looked., LOL! You hate smoking? Work on a local ban and take it from there. I don't smoke, but I'll fight you every step of the way. :)
It's very lucrative, too. When I was in HS, farm kids were given a few acres to grow what they wanted. It taught them about how to tend a crop for a season, commitment, hard work...you know, all those USELESS values one learns on a farm. ;)
Most planted tobacco and came to school the next year in a sports car or shiney new Chevy pick--em-up truck.
If tobacco is so horrible, why isn't it just flat-out banned? Oh, that's right. The Government can't live without the extorted tax revenue that tobacco offers!
"Easy for you to say, given your obvious obliviousness to the suffering of others."
WTF? There aren't enough drugs in the world to solve your problem, LOL!
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