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Illegal Pot Invades California’s Deserts, Bringing Violence, Fear and Ecological Destruction
Bakersfield/Los Angeles Times ^ | Jul 15, 2021 | Jaclyn Cosgrove and Louis Sahagún

Posted on 07/15/2021 12:10:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: BenLurkin

A front end loader could make short work of that operation.


61 posted on 07/17/2021 8:55:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: gr8eman

From what recent visitors to Colorado told me they liked being able to buy weed vape cartridges in the store there instead of bud.


62 posted on 07/17/2021 9:00:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m astounded they can grow good marijuana in a desert.


63 posted on 07/18/2021 12:14:06 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: DouglasKC

“the myriad of studies AND common sense that says otherwise”

Post links to a few of those “myriad of studies”. Remember: YOUR claim, YOUR homework.


64 posted on 07/18/2021 5:19:58 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
“the myriad of studies AND common sense that says otherwise” Post links to a few of those “myriad of studies”. Remember: YOUR claim, YOUR homework.

Just google "harmful effects of smoking pot"...but you go ahead and keep picking at nits while the dinosaur in the room of you promoting a leftist cause designed to destroy western culture sits right on top of you...

65 posted on 07/18/2021 8:57:07 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: NetAddicted

There is a formula to growing. My son has a hemp farm. I have several plants in process(legal in VA now). I am basically learning by doing it incorrectly but they will produce anyway. The difference between hemp and MJ is you have to keep the hemp from producing THC. Stressing the plants increases the THC and I bet a desert is good for that.


66 posted on 07/18/2021 9:04:21 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: DouglasKC

‘Just google “harmful effects of smoking pot”..’

You change your claim with every post: from ads said pot is a wonder drug, to websites claim false health benefits for pot, and now pot has harmful effects. Each new claim never supports your previous claims - and your latest claim, while correct, fails to distinguish pot from many approved drugs with negative side effects, or from alcohol or tobacco. In a free society, harmful things aren’t banned but appropriately labeled, and adult buyers are free to exercise their judgment.


67 posted on 07/18/2021 11:28:34 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
‘Just google “harmful effects of smoking pot”..’ You change your claim with every post: from ads said pot is a wonder drug, to websites claim false health benefits for pot, and now pot has harmful effects. Each new claim never supports your previous claims - and your latest claim, while correct, fails to distinguish pot from many approved drugs with negative side effects, or from alcohol or tobacco. In a free society, harmful things aren’t banned but appropriately labeled, and adult buyers are free to exercise their judgment

Everything I said was true. You're just trying to discredit it because I'm not listing EVERY single reference on the internet. Even if I did that you would STILL stick to your ludicrous and misleading assertions that pot is some kind of fantastic wonder drug and that's why it should be legal.

And once again SILENCE means ASSENT. You STILL will not address WHY the left WANTS and PROMOTES this line of thought. I KNOW why they do. They want to destroy western culture. Conservatives want to CONSERVE that culture.

A better question is WHY are you promoting it? Why are you carrying the lefts message and spreading their lies and propaganda about pot?

Answer the question and quit going off in the weeds on stupid non-points.

68 posted on 07/18/2021 11:56:23 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

“your ludicrous and misleading assertions that pot is some kind of fantastic wonder drug”

I never asserted that (nor even implied it) - you’ve sunk from unsupported ever-changing claims to outright lying.


69 posted on 07/18/2021 12:36:46 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
“your ludicrous and misleading assertions that pot is some kind of fantastic wonder drug” I never asserted that (nor even implied it) - you’ve sunk from unsupported ever-changing claims to outright lying.

You're dancing around again. Your every post DEFENDING the legalization and normalization of a leftist cause screams that you support that leftist cause. It's even worse IF you don't truly believe that smoking pot increases lung function. If you believed that you would at least be an idiot. But if you don't and STILL promote it you're a leftist shill.

70 posted on 07/18/2021 2:15:21 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: freedumb2003

As I predicted years ago. And the same politicians will begin to treat the legal product like tobacco and restrict its usage and tax it higher to “save the children “ etc.

Thus massively increasing more black markets. Sort of like today where most people buy it illegally already.

Politician stupidity. They never understand consequences.


71 posted on 07/18/2021 2:22:20 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Fully legalized they will over regulate and tax it and grow black markets.

Like tobacco in NY.


72 posted on 07/18/2021 2:24:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Fledermaus

>>As I predicted years ago. And the same politicians will begin to treat the legal product like tobacco and restrict its usage and tax it higher to “save the children “ etc.

Thus massively increasing more black markets. Sort of like today where most people buy it illegally already.<<

That is what happened. CA taxes are so onerous that no one will pay them if you can get a better product in the alley for 1/3 the price.

Once it is in your hand there is no crime so there is no downside. Same for the seller. Tax evasion is the worst they can get.


73 posted on 07/18/2021 2:37:20 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: freedumb2003

Watch, they’ll come out with “Tax Stamps” and pass a lawc saying your product must have a stamp. Of course it’s stupid and only buyers will be stamp collectors.

North Carolna did the same in 1988 and pot was and is illegal in the state. It was a joke.


74 posted on 07/18/2021 2:49:48 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: DouglasKC
your ludicrous and misleading assertions that pot is some kind of fantastic wonder drug

I never asserted that (nor even implied it) - you’ve sunk from unsupported ever-changing claims to outright lying.

Your every post DEFENDING the legalization

Never on the basis that it's a wonder drug - that remains your lie.

Free clue - I've already posted my argument for legalization: "In a free society, harmful things aren’t banned but appropriately labeled, and adult buyers are free to exercise their judgment."

and normalization

Another lie from you - I have never defended the normalization of marijuana.

75 posted on 07/18/2021 3:45:39 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Fledermaus

Sure. It might be semantics, but I think of of products with too much expensive regulatory burden as not fully legal, despite the language used in the law. That’s why I wrote “quasi-legal.”


76 posted on 07/18/2021 4:57:41 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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