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Pot invasion stuns park officials.
600% jump in Sequoia plants may be tied to tight borders.
The Fresno Bee ^
| Sept 25, 2002
| Joan Obra
Posted on 09/26/2002 5:32:04 AM PDT by Pern
Edited on 04/12/2004 2:10:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A new species is appearing more frequently in Sequoia National Park: marijuana. During the past month, park rangers and law enforcement officials have uprooted 19 marijuana gardens from the Mineral King and South Fork areas of the park. Officials disposed of more than 35,000 plants -- with an estimated street value of more than $140 million -- in an undisclosed Tulare County site.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: anotherdoperstory; dopersleavefr; liberdopians; marijuana; pot; saynottopot; warondrugs; wodlist
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To: MrLeRoy
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 6:58:44 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: Illbay
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:00:27 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: dennisw
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.
To: Hammerhead
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:01:22 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: Illbay
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:03:09 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: dennisw
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:03:56 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: MrLeRoy
Who said it was Mexicans? See the article.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:04:06 AM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Illbay
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?
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:04:11 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: cinFLA
Missed that bit; my bad. But you can bet that US-born Caucasian citizens grow their share of the national parks' pot fields.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:07:16 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: Pern
Does everyone now have a better idea why the Greens want everyone out of our national forests?
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:07:52 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
To: Hemingway's Ghost
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.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:08:10 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
make sure your boots have a nice shine on them before you leave for work this morning.
JBT alert....
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:09:37 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: vin-one
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."
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:09:45 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: vin-one
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?
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:10:41 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
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."
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:11:13 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: MrLeRoy
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....
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:11:39 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: dennisw
Give me some reasons why all narcotics should be illegal?So? What are your reasons?
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:12:07 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
To: MrLeRoy
Execution for hard drug dealers. Exile for pot dealers. Seems fair to me.
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:12:32 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
hey JBT I said Pot, not all narcotics,
don't be a Dane, or CA guy,
Why should Pot be against the Law?
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:13:17 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: dennisw
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."
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posted on
09/26/2002 7:13:26 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
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