Pot invasion stuns park officials. 600% jump in Sequoia plants may be tied to tight borders.

The Fresno Bee ^ | Sept 25, 2002 | Joan Obra

[Illbay]

Drug dealers now face a real imminent threat of death from competitors. If that doesn't deter them, nothing the government can do will deter them.

Murderes now face a real imminent threat of death from lethal injection. Since that seems to be doing absolutely NOTHING to deter them, nothing the government can do will deter them.

Let's legalize murder.

[MrLeRoy]

Murderes now face a real imminent threat of death from lethal injection.

False; it's not imminent, but at the other end of a Constitutionally-mandated trial.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Exile and execute. That's how you wage a war on narcotics.

Considerate thought, principle, and logic. That's how you wage a war on knuckledragging, slackjawed morons. Like you.

[vin-one]

SAVE billions in tax dollars. Sure. NEVER happens. just gets spent elsewhere. The only direction taxes go are up. And revenue for whom? More social engineering programs and forgeign aid that's what.

Well it is better that the money go else where versus, putting non-violent pot smokers behind bars.
The basic premise here that the ANTI-WOD crowd is voicing is that the Gov't has no business
in what I as a free person decides to injest into my body
Why is booze legal and Pot is not?
I will say it again, Pot is less adicitive than alcohol, less damaging to the body,
and has less of an effect on the personality.
boozers get violent, pot smokers get mellow.
Legalize it tax it, and save billions, maybe they could redirect that savings to the National debt, or Social Security.

[MrLeRoy]

Let's legalize murder.

I have never argued that the ineffectiveness of a law was sufficient reason to eliminate it. It's one strike against a law, but there are other considerations, such as whether a law serves the proper governmental function of defending individual rights---which anti-murder laws do but anti-drug laws do not.

[MrLeRoy]

Exile and execute. That's how you wage a war on narcotics.

Drug dealers now face a real imminent threat of death from competitors. If that doesn't deter them, nothing the government can do will deter them.

[cinFLA]

Who said it was Mexicans?

See the article.

[vin-one]

Let's legalize murder.

There you go again, keep on topic, and don't try and confuse the issue again.
Give me some reasons why Pot should be illegal?

[MrLeRoy]

Missed that bit; my bad. But you can bet that US-born Caucasian citizens grow their share of the national parks' pot fields.

[TC Rider]

Does everyone now have a better idea why the Greens want everyone out of our national forests?

[dennisw]

Execute and/or exile. Exile for pot dealers. Execute the heroin/crack/coke dealers and let God sort 'em out. Few will mourn these detritus. Not even their mamas that they stole from.

[vin-one]

make sure your boots have a nice shine on them before you leave for work this morning.

JBT alert....

[MrLeRoy]

boozers get violent, pot smokers get mellow. Correct. From the U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service (publication NCJ 145534): "Of all psychoactive substances, alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. [...] Marijuana and opiates temporarily inhibit violent behavior [...] There is no evidence to support the claim that snorting or injecting cocaine stimulates violent behavior. [...] Anecdotal reports notwithstanding, no research evidence supports the notion that becoming high on hallucinogens, amphetamines, or PCP stimulates violent behavior in any systematic manner."

[dennisw]

There you go again, keep on topic, and don't try and confuse the issue again.
Give me some reasons why Pot all narcotics should be illegal?

[MrLeRoy]

Execute and/or exile.

You keep dodging this point; why is that? "Drug dealers now face a real imminent threat of death from competitors. If that doesn't deter them, nothing the government can do will deter them."

[vin-one]

you see, I'm not as think as you dumb I am,
or my favorite,
honest ocifer,I'm not as think as you drunk I am....

[MrLeRoy]

Give me some reasons why all narcotics should be illegal?

So? What are your reasons?

[dennisw]

Execution for hard drug dealers. Exile for pot dealers. Seems fair to me.

[vin-one]

hey JBT I said Pot, not all narcotics,
don't be a Dane, or CA guy,
Why should Pot be against the Law?

[MrLeRoy]

Execution for hard drug dealers.

You're STILL dodging this point; are you a coward? "Drug dealers now face a real imminent threat of death from competitors. If that doesn't deter them, nothing the government can do will deter them."