[Behind Liberal Lines]

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[EddieB]

Another arguement for legalization???

[Leisler]

""If you or I changed our oil and dumped it in the back yard, we'd be in a lot of trouble," said Sgt. Wayne Hanson, who leads the Drug Enforcement Unit for the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department"

I asked my cousins’ husband who’s a MIT doctoral degreed greenie and a millionaire from consulting at trials for 20 years this question. If I own a big V-8 Suburban, and I drive out to my oil wells, and drain the oil from the engine, am I polluting? He said don’t ask him questions like that.

[palmer]

Small amounts of oil and diesel will break down with bacteria. Deisel will also evaporate.

[par4]

Mostly, the pollution is from diesel generators used to power energy-hogging sodium lights

It's time that these reporters stop trying to sound so knowledgeable without doing actual research. Sodium lights (of which there are two kinds, low pressure and high pressure, but low pressure is failrly rare these days) cannot be used to grow plants. They are commonly used as streetlights and in other applications where color rendition is not critical since the light they transmit is fairly monochromatic. In english, that's why streetlights are yellow. Also, sodium is about the most efficient (lumens per watt) lamp generally available.

Actually the growers use mainly metal halide lamps which are related to sodium only by the fact that they are discharge type lamps (fluorescent is also a discharge lamp). Anyway, my point is, if reporters can't get their facts striaght in the opening few paragraphs, the rest of their story is suspect.

I'll get off my soap box now, thank you for your attention.....

[I_Love_My_Husband]

You're brave. These threads bring out the dumb pro-druggies here at FReep.

However, in our favor, not a-one of them is a Republican. They're all Liberaltarians so the rest of us just ignore them.

I'm sure 10 of them will jump in and call me every name in the book now. But Liberaltarians get .5% of the vote, and JR seems to be quite sick of them these days (see the note where he wants to call FReep a Republican Discussion Group).

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[dennisw]

Let's solve the whole problem by making heroin, LSD, crack, meth all legal, cheaper, more readily available.

[Z10N157]

A high electric bill supposedly attracts DEA attention so that's probably why they are turning to diesel generators.

Unintended consequences to the Drug War...

*adds pollution to the long list*

[Psycho_Bunny]

Just as a side-note:  if you recall the "Peace Demonstration" in San Francisco where a reporter was charged with pre-placing 4(6?) Molotov cocktails in a bush prior to the actual festivities -- he was fired from this newspaper for lying in a article about the response of police to a domestic disturbance call.

The Times-Standard has always been a Mini-Me West, of the NYT.

[StriperSniper]

Ron Prose with the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, a division of the California Department of Justice. "I'm not talking about the guys with four plants in the closet. I'm talking about the guys who are like millionaires."

Triple play! Not only do they grow the 'Evil Weed', they are enviromental criminals, and worst of all they are the 'Evil RICH"!

PUKE!