Nope. I don't grow hemp.
/johnny
Posted on 05/24/2014 3:38:24 PM PDT by Wolfie
Where The War On Pot Will Go To Die
In some states, there's an untenable mismatch between the crime and the time, but does anyone think that pot—medical or recreational—will still be illegal in 10 years?
Now that a majority of Americans—54% and climbing, according to Pew Research—believe that marijuana should be treated like beer, wine and liquor, it’s time to ask: where does the war on pot go to die?
What episode will trigger that final skirmish that kicks over the hollowed-out edifice of marijuana prohibition like the Berlin Wall? What will be the final outrage against common sense and common decency that triggers an Arab Spring for weed in these U.S.? Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia already have medical marijuana (with more to come), and full legalization has gained 13 percentage points in just the past five years.
Ironically, whatever ends the war on pot won’t happen in Colorado or Washington, which have already legalized recreational pot and have received vague promises from Attorney General Eric Holder that the feds won’t bust people and businesses who comply with state laws. Colorado is further along in the retail process than Washington (where pot shops won’t open until mid-July), and so far the only problem of note is that the state is raking in 40% more tax revenue than originally projected.
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/johnny
Laws against consensual vices are a goldmine for criminals.
Just when evidence is accumulating of the permanent brain damage from pot, and just when new, more potent varieties are available, legalizing and mainstreaming cannabis is thought to be a great idea. How stupid can people be?
One thing is inescapable: legalized drugs and the welfare state cannot exist long forever. Normal people will not stand for supporting brain-damaged druggies, and such a society will fall prey to external barbarians.
Just when evidence is accumulating of the permanent brain damage from pot, and just when new, more potent varieties are available, legalizing and mainstreaming cannabis is thought to be a great idea. How stupid can people be?
One thing is inescapable: legalized drugs and the welfare state cannot exist long forever. Normal people will not stand for supporting brain-damaged druggies, and such a society will fall prey to external barbarians.
***Well, America has already become a patheticly zonked-out cesspool of dopeheads and degenerates.***
I remember a pot smoker here who was arrested for murder. He was a classic case of dopehead. His trailer house was full of trash, filth everywhere, roaches(bugs) all over the place.
He didn’t care as long as he had his pot. He probably is still in prison for murder.
Then we had another couple who owned a trailer near here. When arrested their place was full of trash, they used one room for an “outhouse” indoors. They crapped on the floor.
When arrested for manufacturing meth, the ground had to be scoured, the trailer was disassembled, but was so polluted it sat in the bushes for about years to allow what was left to air out.
/johnny
The War on Marijuana may well die one of these days. But in its place will rise the libertarian utopia — an atheist, Bible-mocking, shacked-up, baby-killing, stoned and inevitably weak and dependent nation.
The expense of the Drug War has always been the least of America’s problems. People criticize it mainly not because they worry about budget frugality but they want cheap and legal joints and blow.
In ten years worrying if pot is legal will be the last thing we should care about.
We should be more worried about the next Civil war. It’s coming.
“I just came in from watering my tobacco plants...”
Got any with seven leaves...spread out like a fan?
“...the next Civil war...”
Or maybe we should call it RWII. When it happens, cannabis becomes legal :)
Nope. I don't grow hemp.
/johnny
Speak for yourself. None of the folks I know who criticize the WOD, including myself and family, don't do the stuff and wouldn't even if it were legal, but see the damage that has been done in the form of ever increasing government power.
Me, too. I want to p!$$ on the fresh turned earth of its grave.
Potheads cannot wait to drag their children to smoke fests - already happening. Libertopians lie when they say it’s for adults.
I totally agree. Straining gnats and swallowing camels, human nature never changes.
For this stoner piece of garbage to compare his pathetic ganja jones to the Berlin Wall shows just how burnt out his brain already is, and what kind of selfish sniggering munchy-based values he uses to guide his life.
Think of those who died trying to escape East Berlin with dreams of freedom...while this silly doper dreams only of escaping his sad life and self.
You mean where it is now?
The brain damage angle is a bonus for the Lefties. A great way to manufacture more dependent people who vote for a living.
The strongest drug I’ve used in the last forty years is black coffee; before that it was beer. I am adamantly opposed to the War on Some Drugs die to its financial cost and its assault on our constitution. You generalize.
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