Posted on 05/12/2007 6:10:08 PM PDT by Hadean
Cannabis smokers are unwittingly funding Islamist extremists linked to terror attacks in Spain, Morocco and Algeria, according to a joint investigation by the Spanish and French secret services. The finding will be seized on both by campaigners for a harsher clampdown on cannabis and by those who argue that legalisation is the only way to end a petty dealing trend that is dragging growing numbers of teenagers into crime. The investigation by the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia and the Renseignements Generaux was launched after Spanish police found that the Islamists behind the March 2004 bombings in Madrid bought their explosives from former miners in return for blocks of hashish. The bombings claimed 191 lives.
Spain's role as a transit point for drugs was highlighted last week when Madrid hosted the US Drug Enforcement Agency's annual conference. Experts heard not only that North African hashish was funding terrorism in Europe, but also that West Africa had become a new hub for South American cocaine shipments bound for Europe. Morocco is the world's leading cannabis exporter, with an annual crop estimated to be worth at least £2bn. Last month, the Moroccan navy seized three tonnes of Europe-bound hashish off the Mediterranean port of Nador. The same week, Spanish coastguards seized 4.3 tonnes of Moroccan resin off Ibiza.
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Clearly, Brits who feel they must indulge themselves should get it from California or Hawaii..
They need to grow their own. It’s not hard.
Glad it’s not coffee.
I’m addicted.
<...according to a joint investigation by the Spanish and French secret services>
Joint investigation??? Must they??
LOL!
Shows this is a small world, after all,,,we really are inter-connected. And to think I thought:
“Cannabis smokers are unwittingly funding Islamist extremists linked to terror attacks in Spain, Morocco and Algeria,”
was just when they donated to moveon.
The problem with marijuana, from the perspective of the WOD crowd, is that any Joe can grow it in their backyard, in most of the world. There are zero taxes to be paid on such a crop, and big booze doesn’t like the competition. We learned our lesson with booze (re: prohibition), and yes booze causes plenty of problems, but it appears that the cure is worse than the disease where dope is concerned (imo).
Well it really is an easy plant to grow and grow well.
I used to smoke and almost never paid for it because it was easier to simply grow my own. I could give lessons on growing it.
I’m about as far from libertarian as I can get but I tend to think it should be decriminalized and regulated like alcohol but only for personal use.
BTW I don’t feel that way about any other drug.
That got be THE statement on this THREAD ROFL
Personally I have always felt that we should drop Napalm on the Poppy fields of Afghanistan and South Ameirca.
If you want to win a real war on drugs you have to fight it like a war.
A little trivia bit is that Mexican banditos of yore were profound marijuana smokers, when they could not get the foul tasting fermented drink called “Pulce”. It even figures in to the song, “La Cucaracha”, which was about Poncho Villa’s model T Ford:
La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque le falta, porque no tiene
Marihuana que fumar.
English
The cockroach, the cockroach
Can’t walk anymore
Because it lacks, because it doesn’t have,
Marijuana to smoke.
Eventually beer arrived in Mexico, and changed everything.
Well, lots of things.
I agree with legalizing pot for the reasons mentioned above, but I beg all my fello freepers not to smoke it. It does have long term affects and you might end up sounding like Chong.
Filling up your gas tank has a more clear line between your pocket book and terrorism.
It really doesn't matter. If there's something out there that's corrupt and a money-maker, bet that Islam is in the middle of it. Gun-running, drug-running, arson, rape, murder and on and on and on, it's legal is you're a muslim. Most immoral bunch it's even possible to imagine.
After our entire race is obliterated from the planet in a horiffic nuclear and biological exchange, the lowly cannibis sativa will still thrive along streams and creeks and our star will continue to burn for a few billion more years.
I agree. That's the Dutch model. Strangely, all of those grow ops that supply the "coffee shops" are illegal, while the coffee shops have some specific legal exemptions. But the Dutch people are able to grow and possess personal amounts.
BTW I don’t feel that way about any other drug.
Ditto.
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