Posted on 01/30/2024 6:16:43 AM PST by artichokegrower
The six men found dead at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert last week were likely shot to death in a dispute over marijuana, sheriff's officials said Monday as they announced the arrests of five men suspected in the violence.
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A warning to other states. Don't follow California's lead in legalizing this dirty, filthy murderous crop
I thought once the politicians “legalized” marijuana and “taxed the hell out of it”, all this kind of crap was going to stop with everyone in California going full mellow and sitting around blowing weed. What happened?
huh. they didn’t call them “California men”...
Were they legal citizens?
“A warning to other states. Don’t follow California’s lead in legalizing this dirty, filthy murderous crop.”
California tried to have their cake and eat it, too. They “legalized” it but added so many taxes they practically invited the black market to waltz in. Then everyone stands around with stupid looks on their faces asking “how did this happen?”
The legal growers can’t compete with the illegal growers on a cost basis. And when you create a black market for any product you’re not going to get The Boy Scouts moving in.
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Liked when the sheriff jumped all over that bozo question about weed being legal.
Someone bogard the joint?
If you think there’s a War on Drugs now, just wait until they are legal.
What’s going on now is not true legalization. If growing pot was truly legal, everyone could grow it and trade in it, and that would be great. Just like the Founding Fathers did!
The states “legalizing” pot are bowing to organized crime and Agenda 21 and simply imposing another form of taxation that actually cripples farming.
Dealing anything that people like - even if it is just only a drink or smoke - will predictably cause problems in a community. But nobody just wants to see those things go completely away, either. (Do you really want the corner bar to become a dead tradition? Or for people not to have wine at a wedding ceremony or baptism? Drugs are bad, mmmmmmkay? But, wow, look at our government lately, forcing people to take a shot that is almost certain to make them either very sick or dead.)
That is why - as with prostitution and pr0n - the communities need to work the problem out locally and only call for state or federal help when there is a real emergency - like a drug cartel from M3xico trying to take over part of their state. For example. I mean, don’t you wish you could just call the police when you see signs that a gang is descending upon your neighborhood, and literally see something being done about it? (Don’t you? You DO, don’t you?)
A gal I used to work with had a story of how she came to the decision to stop selling weed: She worked for a gang and had an infant about a year old. She was an immigrant making a living from holding weed for gangsters and had a small apartment - more like just a room - off E Colfax Avenue in Denver, CO. This was about 40 years ago btw.
She always kept the weed she was holding underneath her bed. One night some guys invaded her apartment - it was a break-in, but they didn’t have to do much more than break the doorknob - and they grabbed her baby and threatened to kill it if she didn’t give them all the weed she was holding, which she quickly did. They threw the baby down and ran off with the dope. She told me that she moved right after that.
If growing and trading in weed was REALLY legal, these things would not happen. Criminalizing stuff like booze and drugs has enabled more crime.
There really are people languishing in prison because they were caught selling drugs. Why?
What is being described here is NOT legal drugs, but state-controlled drug-pushing. It is cartel-friendly. It is organized crime.
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“What happened?”
The cartels got PO’d at territorial infringement.
If taxation on a product is too high, it is only quasi-legalization.
“Too high” is relative to cost of production, and creates ideal black market conditions.
In NYC,there’s only a handful of “legal” pot shops that have jumped through all of the hoops, and something like a thousand illegal storefronts selling MJ and MJ products. The tax and regulatory burden is just too high.
I 100% agree with your statement that legalizing pot but with tons of regulations is really a state government picking its winners and losers.
What gets me is how much pot has become a cult calling card for the so-called small-government libertarians. I liked much of Gary Johnson's message in 2016 and was tempted to vote for him instead of Trump, largely because Trump promised to increase spending. (Trump didn't say that directly, but he did say he'd make our roads better than anybody's every seen before, and our military will be a military like none other in history, and replace Obamacare with a health care system that will be beautiful, truly beautiful -- all of which means spending more.)
But Trump got my vote because Gary Johnson came out in favor of more carbon taxes. Ain't nuthin' small government about giving the government another way to control us. That's the #1 reason I voted for Trump twice and later this year a 3rd time. But the "libertarians" here in Alabama were still all about Gary Johnson because to them it's all about pot, pot, pot, pot, even though Johnson was promising to raise everybody's energy costs like Hillary and Jill Stein (Green Party).
I didn't know that the Founding Fathers smoked joints.
“If you think there’s a War on Drugs now, just wait until they are legal.”
When’s the last time you heard about the Coors guy shooting it out with the Miller guy over shelf space?
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I went into pot shops with my husband when he was fighting cancer - said it was the only thing that relieved the nausea and pain. The small bottles of tincture, about 1 oz., were over $100.
There were signs inside showing exactly how much the product was taxed an incredible amount in California - so no doubt about a black market arising.
Several pot stores near us have already closed, said the market had expanded too quickly - I suspect they were shunned b/c of the high taxes that pot smokers didn’t want to pay.
The six men found dead at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert last week were likely shot to death in a dispute over marijuana, sheriff’s officials said Monday as they announced the arrests of five men suspected in the violence.
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6 dead plus 5 arrested makes 11 fewer drug cartel low lifes on the street. What’s not to like about this news?
Shooting a cartel member should be a $5 fine, you can mail it in.
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