Posted on 05/11/2014 8:29:01 PM PDT by mgist
How The One Percent Will Legalize Marijuana BY MIKE ADAMS · FRI FEB 21, 2014
The federal government, along with anti-drug groups, would like to paint a portrait for the American public that stoned supporters of the legalized marijuana movement are all saggy-pant thugs and unemployed hippies -- nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is there are some very wealthy and influential people out there are working the system in an effort to legalize the leaf. People with LOTS of money have swooped in like stoner superheroes and written fat checks so that America can finally be rid of this pesky prohibition business.
One of the largest financial supporters of the marijuana legalization movement is George Soros, the billionaire pro-pot advocate who has donated millions of dollars to ensure weed enthusiast can chief the reefer without being harassed by the police.
“Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good… Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. It also would reduce the crime, violence and corruption associated with drug markets, and the violations of civil liberties and human rights that occur when large numbers of otherwise law-abiding citizens are subject to arrest. Police could focus on serious crime instead,” Soros wrote in a 2010 opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal.
Google billionaire Paul Buchheit has supported some of the same campaigns as Soros, donating more than $100,000 to California’s failed Proposition 19 back in 2010. Facebook forefathers Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz, along with Men’s Wearhouse founder George Zimmer also contributed green to legalize weed in California, donating $170,000 and $2 million, respectively.
The Marijuana Policy Project, whose board consists of a laundry list of celebrities like comedian Bill Maher, punk rock legend Jello Biafra, actor Jack Black, and comedian Tommy Chong, were responsible for funding 36 percent of the organization’s funding in 2012, according to the MMP’s financial report. Those donations accounted for 1,312,500 of the foundation’s total 2012 revenue of $3,569,899.
Another organization proving the influence behind the strength of marijuana reform is NORML, a 40-year-old outfit dedicated to changing public opinions of marijuana and legalizing it across the nation. Recently, the group organized a boycott against Kellogg’s when the company decided to sever their endorsement with Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps after photos of the swimmer smoking marijuana came into the public eye. NORML was able to twist the arm of the billion-dollar company and get them to reinstate sponsorships.
Recent reports show that many political candidates are receiving support from weed-friendly contributors. In fact, an article published on OpenSecrets notes that the Marijuana Policy Project “is also the top organization lobbying on the issue, with more than 72 marijuana mentions in filings since 2006,” supporting four senatorial campaigns in 2010 and several Democratic House races.
Your turn! It takes a lot of money to finance a successful campaign, and small donations made to your local pot-friendly political candidates are very important. In fact, just this week, I donated a whopping $4.20 to Bill Levin for Indiana State Representative District 96 in 2014. The figure seemed appropriate.
In fact, robberies fell more than 7% during the period, while sexual assaults declined by more than 12%. Homicide fell more than 66%. Aggravated assaults were the only violent crime category to rise in the first two months of this year, gaining nearly 4%.
Property crimes overall fell nearly 15%. Burglary and larceny were both down approximately 2% while theft from motor vehicles fell over 43%. Auto thefts fell nearly 4%. However, perhaps ironically, arson cases more than doubled.
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/lifestyle/what-cannabis-crime-wave-marijuana-sales-steady-colorado-crime-down
You’re right. I forgot that we all turned gay, married our same sex, hate God and want America to fail. Now we’re all going to be potheads too...those damn 1 percenters.
That’s the best part about unreported crimes. It can be used to bolster any argument, I mean, how can one argue againt non-existent, made up statistics.
Social Engineering=the promotion of homosexuallity, global warming, and drug legalization are example of social engineering. It was bought and paid through marketing, research papers, PR,Hollywood movie messages etc.
It is all a big lie, intended to give more power and money to the 1% and the government that supports them. The media is 99% compromised. Nothing can or should be trusted.
Benghazi, Arab Spring, Egypt, Fast and Furious, Syria, is all about helping the cartels. The media silence is deafening. Nothing is said about Wall Street banks, the 1%, laundering $billions for the cartels.
The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks such as Wachovia were known to launder $BILLIONS in cartel money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
JP Morgan openly launders money in cities such as Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez turned that nation into one of the biggest drug distributors of the world. The people have no toilet paper, but they have plenty of cocaine.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/jp-morgans-venezuelan-cronyism-reaches-a-boiling-point/?onswipe_redirect=no
Americans have no idea we have an opiate addiction epidemic and pure heroin is FLOODING the streets. All while the drug legalization campaign, funded by Soros has people demanding drugs. It was all about heroin from the very beginning. Iran funded Chavez campaign, and he turned Venezuela into the biggest distributor in the world, using his military planes and personnel. Obama has turned us into a narco nation as well.
Heroin is flooding world markets, and everything is a fatce.
“A gramme is better than a damn”
They need to keep the lower classes stoned and docile.
I am against SOME drugs. Damned right. Any opportunity for retirement went out the window over a child's use of meth. She knew better, she wasn't raised in a Liberal household where anything goes, but she made the wrong choices anyway. Now, we're raising another generation of children (whom I dearly love, but that is beside the point).
Until you have been slapped by the dysfunction, pain, and expense of another person's addiction, without so much as catching a little 'buzz' yourself, you don't know the meaning of screwed.
It's all just fun, right?
It's your body and you can do what you want with it, right?
Doesn't affect anyone else, right?
Unless you are a rich orphan, wrong.
Look, I like antibiotics, but the use of those is largely controlled, unless you are taking the ones for your pet.
I don't particularly see people looking to loot my possessions or rob me or my wife to get their next penicillin fix.
Not too many people out there running tetracycline houses.
No street gangs fighting over turf to sell cipro.
No one engaging in prostitution to get that levaquin high.
But there are a few drugs which have the distinct honor of being tied to extensive social problems, to increased crime, wrecked homes and lives, and which do more damage to our culture, society, economy, and nation than can possibly be outweighed by someone's need for a buzz.
So yes, I am against some drugs.
Promise...?
” comedian Bill Maher, punk rock legend Jello Biafra, actor Jack Black, and comedian Tommy Chong”
All 4 together their IQ’s adds up to maybe 100.
Let's see how things go this summer, when it isn't cold out and there is no snow on the ground. (Maybe why arson was "up"?)
If no one fills out a report, it didn't happen.
Do you really believe theft from motor vehicles fell by nearly half in a major metro area? Was that stat cherry-picked at the end of the Christmas shopping season, or a recording/reporting artifact because theft from motor vehicles is so low on the crime spectrum? (as what people from the area have told me would suggest).
More people are assaulting others but fewer are dying from that?
Go ahead, and make your arguments as you please.
Now I will ask you: do you really think this is going to improve our nation?
Do you think this is going to make us stronger, morally, economically, militarily, technologically, culturally?
If so, kindly explain how legalizing recreational drugs will improve America in each of those aspects.
I work on oil rigs. There is no duplicity. It IS a matter of safety.
Don't even try to tell me someone is just as safe to work around stoned as they are straight and sober.
I reckon you'd have to decide whether they were non-existent (I.E. no one wrote down the numbers), or made up (fictional numbers). All I offered is anecdotal evidence, which I have been assured is worthless. So live it and find out for yourself. Then you can be another anecdote no one will believe because it can't be linked in someone's database.
“Considering that drug dealing is really a socioeconomically parasitic profession, providing no lasting value to the economy nor society....”
Are you sure that you are not talking about professional sports and Hollywood?
However, I keep holding out hope Big Government will finally win that War on (Some) Drugs. Maybe after we spend a few more billion. It worked so well for alcohol prohibition.
“Don’t even try to tell me someone is just as safe to work around stoned as they are straight and sober.”
I’m not trying to tell you that. Or anything like that.
And I’m sure you won’t tell me that somebody who smoked pot on the 1st of the month is still impaired on the 28th.
“these kids are slaves to the addiction of marijuana”
No.
“and search for a bigger high and may even try cocaine or heroin.”
Maybe.
“Americans have no idea we have an opiate addiction epidemic and pure heroin is FLOODING the streets.”
You’re right, I didn’t. Where did you find that information?
“So yes, I am against some drugs.”
Good answer. Darn good answer. I’m just going to file that away for future reference.
All one has to do is see what happened in places like Zurich with Needle Park.
“The history is they make everything worse.” Oh I don’t know. I want their to be a judicial system and a prison system. I don’t want criminals to freely roam the streets and no what ever they want to do to the citizenry. Our country already went through that and it isn’t pretty.
But generally I agree with you. I just don’t think it makes any sense to add additional methods of getting ‘high’ to the legal list. It is already way over done
Nice tag line. Did you compose it, or is it a quotation, if you don’t mind me asking?
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