Mexican drug violence spills over into the US

news.yahoo.com ^ | 02/09/09 | ALICIA A. CALDWELL

[ScottinVA]

All this.. and STILL no border wall.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

a weed that makes people mellow, sleepy and hungry.

It does more than that...

There is a much greater number of women who avoid marijuana. Usually in teenagers, it is a far greater number of the boys...

It makes them feminized, docile, lazy and in many cases dishonest sneak thieves...

When the chronics don't get their stuff they become bitchy, vindictive and very petty over some of the stupidest things. I saw lots of fistfights over pot(and worse) in highschool.

I think with the whole drug issue most people ignore the real danger...

It has been chemical warfare against young people in this country and in the West since the 1960s.

[Force of Truth]

It makes them feminized, docile, lazy and in many cases dishonest sneak thieves...

I will agree with you there. Chronic users are @sswipes with no brains and no d*ck. It lowers testosterone. Plus the whole hip-hop culture is quite annoying. I can put up with hippies for maybe a second or two longer, but after awhile their crap get's old. It's really not about honoring the potheads so much as it's about creating wealth off of them and ending the violence connected with the drug trade, imo.

[OldTCS]

I agree. It always seems to be about the money. DUI already extends to other drugs I believe.

I don't use anything other than prescribed medicine now. If it were legalized I think I would consider it as an alternative to prescribed painkillers later on. My wife has cancer, and the warranty on my body seems to have expired so no telling what's coming up. Imagine the savings to taxpayers if we could simply “grow our own” pain meds.
Something tells me the pharmaceutical companies will object. ;)

[MHGinTN]

That’s how it all started, if memory serves. The chemical industry came up with synthetic fibers so they lobbied Congress to outlaw hemp production. The switch was completed before the second world war finished and only a few hemp leggings and tents and naval ropes survive to this day.

[OldTCS]

I transferred off my last destroyer in late 1989, and at that time all of the mooring lines were still manila. I don't know what is in use now. I've heard there is a new synthetic called Spectra, but don't know much about it.
When I was on ship, I always distrusted the synthetic lines that were in use for other than mooring purposes, because of the potential snap-back if they parted.

[bernicorb]

It concerns me that we are spending so much money and man power in the Middle East and we are not doing enough to stop all the drug related violence that is impacting the US. I am currently visiting New Mexico from Alaska and every night I hear on the local news of more and more violence. It is quite scary. Mexico is our neighbor, and there is a war going on over there that the US is a part of. Why are we not doing more to stop it. Building walls and beefing up our border enforcement is not going to solve the problem. It would just hide the problem a bit more from the US, but it would still be there. We need to be utilizing our resources here and we need to be helping Mexico with this horrific issue.