Posted on 04/03/2009 7:21:26 AM PDT by locke22
Old Glory Radio Hippie Report - As hard as it is to believe, Eurkea City Council member Linda Atkins (pictured left) proposed in a public meeting this week that she wants the city of Eureka Ca., (Humboldt Co ) to study the use of Marijuana Distribution centers as a tool to raise money for the city.
The county is currently under seige by an influx of illegal aliens who have taken over the forest lands for massive marijuana production. The days of the old hippie growing a few plants in the woods have been replaced with a quazi-agriculture Mexican controlled industry....now with the support of local governments who want a piece.
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Easier to tax them than report them to INS I guess.
Ah, Humboldt County. Lived there for 20 years. Moved to Arizona in 2007.
It is a shame. Great place to raise kids at one time. Yes, there was a nice pot growing industry. Come harvest time in October the businesses did great.
Now it is a nightmare. A great friend of mine is telling me that you literally take your life in your hands while hunting and hiking on State and Federal Forest Lands.
A couple of friends of his were shot at while they were hunting.
The Sheriffs just shrugged their shoulders, they dont even want to go into the woods.
One of the maggot infected whack out Gay Frisco council members recommended legalizing pot and taxing it to balance Gay Frisco’s budget.
There are areas along some of those rivers, you might be risking your life if you walked in to fish.
Up to a decade ago, vehicles were broken into contents stolen along the Klamath river.
Now guys come back to their parked cars to find their windows broken, paint jobs keyed and ruined and nothing stolen. Very obvious warnings not to go there again. Often we hear about fishers in drift boats being dangerously harassed in certain areas on the Klamath and other rivers in the NW part of California.
Yeah, I know. I visit once a year because my kids still live up there. My daughter lives in Crescent City.
My two sons live in Eureka.
Why stop there. I’m sure there are a lot of things you could study that would be in violation of state and federal laws that could raise money until you’re thrown in prison.
For years Fish Hawk and Tubebender have sent me links re fishing news via the local fishwraps up there. It seems like the drug related crimes may be getting worse and bolder.
It is hard to get a fix on Crescent City re crime with the influx of the Pelican Bay guards. About a year ago, a female family practice doc, we know, and her boy friend went to the CC area to check out relocating there. Both have relatives with drug problems and are very sensitive and knowledgeable about the signs of drug trafficing and other problems.
They loved the area re the outdoors, fishing, kayaking and hiking potential. They said the drug scene reminded them of BeZerkley and parts of Frisco.
My daughter loves it there. I love Jeddediah State Park. Fun to camp there.
All communites are infected with the drug trade, but Crescent City is probably low on the scale for now at least. Probably use that town as a drop off point for other destinations. Makes sense.
I PRAY GOD THIS DOES NOT COME TO PASS. THAT SAID....
People desiring and/or needing illegal drugs somehow manage to obtain them. Crime, murder, corruption, mayhem, drug gang wars. Al Capone and company almost seem benevolent.
Suddenly ALL drugs are LEGAL and TAXED (like legal tobacco)
The SAME people, desiring and/or needing LEGALIZED drugs, walk into their local SUBSTANCE EMPORIUM, and put their money down and leave.
There is NO crime. There has been NO violence. There have been NO killings. There have been NO turf wars. The SAME people have been obtaining the SAME drugs, albeit in a quiet peaceful atmosphere.
Huge deposits of LEGAL money are deposited in LEGAL banks while LEGAL employees earn their wages. Vast sums of money would flow to cities, states and federal governments from quite large tax levies imposed on a NOW legal product.
Even with HEAVY TAXATION, the cost of drugs would surely plummit, as would the vast sums of money that currently feed the CORRUPTION of governmental officialdom.
Of course, a healthy percentage of DRUG TAX revenue would be earmarked for the funding of DRUG PREVENTION PROGRAMS, exactly as the programs for TOBACCO prevention are “funded”.
By the way, I would truly hate to see this come to pass.
Prostitution and porn would also be a good addition to the portfolio.
If that works out, you could start a protection racket and do some blackmail on the side.
What do you do about the addicts that do not have the money to purchase the drugs?
These people are still going to go out and rob, steal, and murder to get the money.
Legalizing it is not going to change that.
The Eureka City, Calif city council may be on to something. For decades governments have timidly dabbled in taxing alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. A few more adventuresome, Nevada, for instance, moved forward into taxing sex. Well, not all sex,of course, just sex at the Bunny Ranch and similar venues.
Just think of the untapped resources available to governmental units courageous enough to plunge in whole heartedly. Marijuana is the tip of the possibilities. Heroin, cocaine—the entire panoply of hard drugs springs instantly to mind.
And then, there is the ‘mother lode.’ Bunny Ranch franchises for enterprises such as pedophilia. Thailand’s sex tourism would simply dry up and blow away. San Francisco’s bathhouses could be producers of revenue, instead of shabby areas of blight. The operator could proudly display the Certification of Occupation for Purposes of ... well, proper terminology can certainly be worked out by enterprising bureaucrats.
How dare you to confuse the stoners with logic.
Of course those without money will STILL continue to find some desperate way to obtain needed funds.
I said TWICE I wouldn’t want to see what I wrote come to pass.
My point was the elimination of the CARNAGE, CORRUPTION and MAYHEM involved in the distribution of an ILLEGAL, but desperately wanted/needed substance. Plus, the tax revenues to the various governments. What I forgot to include is the money NOT SPENT on the “War on Drugs”. There is an economic help right there.
THIRD TIME...I WOULD NOT WANT TO SEE THIS COME TO PASS.
Thanks for the link.
Amazing how many people up in Arcata and Eureka have illnesses that need medical MJ.
My favorite response: #46 “
The irony of a liberal complaining about an American from Kansas, but has no problem drooling like a zombie before a Kenyan fraud.. “
See the below quote from the story....
“The county is currently under seige by an influx of illegal aliens who have taken over the forest lands for massive marijuana production. The days of the old hippie growing a few plants in the woods have been replaced with a quazi-agriculture Mexican controlled industry....now with the support of local governments who want a piece.”
this cant be, we have been told mexican drug gangs are down south. looks like they are already here. Cant the feds go and take them out?? illegals doing even more illegal stuff,
maybe we need these illegals after all who will do the illegal stuff Americans won’t do????
One more reason to seal the boarder and seal it now.
wetbacks doing the jobs hippies wont do, thats funny!!!!
A real doctor, whom I have known for over 30 years has had two patients needing MJ.
One was a legit case. Woman with ca receiving Chemo and Radiation therapy. She was so nauseated she wasn’t eating.
She got her mj from Berkley at an approved clinic and did okay and dced the mj herself after her medical treatments causing her nausea were stopped.
The other was an old hippie from Berkley with glaucoma. She was a lifetime user of MJ. The doctor told her to find a doctor in Berkley, which she did.
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