it killed this guy!
It remains unclear what lured the thieves to the Pittsburg home of Rex Farrance, 59, on Tuesday night, but an investigator said a large quantity of drugs was seized from the house. Detectives are trying to determine if narcotics were being dealt from the residence.
Police declined to say what was seized, but Farrance's son, 19-year-old Sterling, told investigators that his parents weren't involved in drug sales. The son said he had a doctor's recommendation to use medical marijuana, which he grew at his parents' home.
Colleagues at San Francisco-based PC World, where Farrance started in the mailroom and worked his way up to become senior technical editor, recalled him as a warm-spirited, socially conservative fitness buff -- hardly the profile of a drug dealer.
Horse s**t. The drug laws killed this guy. Just as Chicago gangs no longer fight tommy-gun wars over illegal alcohol sales, nobody would have been trying to rip him off if the stuff were decriminalized and fifty times cheaper.
The DEA has admitted that nobody has EVER, in all of recorded history, died of an overdose of marijuana.
Drug laws kill. They kill WAY WAY WAY more people than drugs.
If you support the drug war, you're no conservative. You are a damn fool, a fascist, or you're filling your rice bowl by destroying the lives of harmless pot smokers. And I say you are destroying the American way of life. Every one of our ancient Saxon freedoms is under attack because of this puritanical idiocy.
Decriminalization is inevitable. As soon as the Greatest Generation and the older baby boomers die off, it will be an accomplished fact, and vast armies of cops and prison guards will have to find new careers.
-ccm