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by Preston on 27 September 2012 - 19:09
A major showdown over States Rights may be in the works. Arkansas will have a medical marijuana vote in the upcoming November election. If this passes, it will bring Arkansas up against the USG in a direct Tenth Amendment challenge for State Rights, a major Constitutional issue which has never been adquately enforced by the states since the Civil War. This time the feds may lose.
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/sep/27/state-supreme-court-pot-measure-ballo/?breaking
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/sep/27/state-supreme-court-pot-measure-ballo/?breaking
by Two Moons on 27 September 2012 - 19:09
The Fed always wins, and perhaps many forgot or never really understood how bloody our civil war actually was.
We have alcohol which is by far worse, and tobacco which is worse still, then there is the man made crap that has more side effects than benefits, and the drug companies are the ones after all who do not want legalization of something they didn't create and can't profit from.
A little buzz would do everyone some good every once in a while, and all that crap about dependency or leading to stronger substances is a myth.
To make growing, use, and possession legal without any government strings is the only way to keep it honest and affordable.
That being said I'm sure it would be taxed and regulated just like everything else.
by vonissk on 28 September 2012 - 00:09
Moons. I think it should be legalized and taxed instead of spending all that money to fight it. And all those people losing their lives over drugs and the cartel and all that. Yep and I think a little buzz might help some people calm down. LOLHere in my little podunk town, when I first moved back here 9 yrs ago there was a lot of pot floating around. Also a lot of meth. Before we get all upset, I am definately against meth, how it's made and what it does to people. Anyway we had a good ole boy for sheriff but no the people didn't want that, they wanted something done. So they elected a new sheriff and he was going to change everything. Now that his big deal is over, one of his deputies was fired and is facing time for stealing out of the evidence room. Another was fired and has 6 lawsuits pending for beating the hell out of young people over, yes, pot. Another one almost let an inmate die over having a diabetic seizure. Well I guess people decided maybe the drugs weren't so bad after all cause we had another election not long ago and they booted the young sheriff out and Thank Heavens for small favors. Now maybe things will get back to normal around here. The moccasin telegraph tells me he is a lot more liberal and calm about things. It's just that I see handcuffing a teenager and beating the hell out of him over a roach is carrying things just a little too far...................
by Preston on 28 September 2012 - 02:09
The war on drugs has been a farce from the start and actually a war against the people. Prof. Alfred McCloy documented this in his ground breaking book and many, retired DEA have stated this true also. In the notable classic study of this, Underground Empire, Dennis Dayle, former head of Centac set up as a special Federal task force to stop illegal drugs, claimed that his organization made up of numerous experieced DEA were so successful that their organization was stopped cold by the highest levels of the USG. He said in every case all illegal drug trafficking led to the CIA and associated intel agencies. And it is now well known by ex feds that intel started the cartels (trained, armed and financed and provided shipping) and were in business with the cartels.
Thus illegal narcotics trafficked in under the drug war, including Vietnam War (Air America), under Iran Contra (Mena Ark and Freeway Ricky Ross) benefited from making drugs illegal which raised the price and kept the market strong. LBJ made sure lots of welfare funds were appropriated in his Great Society program and he promised that almost all the money could be recovered by drug sales to the inner cities and then used by Intel for covert black ops (off the books) financing. Numerous former FBI, CIA, DEA have come forward and corroborated this publicly including the great American Heros Bradley Ayers, Celerino Castillo, Michael Levine and some who desire to stay in the shadows but did contact Senators and congressfolks.
Marijuana is a major cash crop in California and growers who pay backsheesh are basically left alone by the police and USG. Their only problems are the criminals and cartels who try to steal their crops. But with the users that's a different matter. They are often abused and needlessly arrested by police, even when causing no problems or using pot for medical reasons by prescriptions from a doctor.
Now here is another fact most cannot fit into their heads. Private prisons are a huge multi-billion dollar industry that competes successfully with Chinese and Mexican labor. Non violent offenders of marijuana laws and victimless crimes are easy to manage and usually productive assemblyline workers. One private prison group won't build and operate a new prison unless local law enforcement signs a secret "quota agreement" which insures a minimum number of arrests and sentences, thus necessitating very tough enforcemnt and numerous fake charges or "charging up" to get jail time. This is a complete violation of the rule of law and the Constitution.
It is time for the Feds to keep their nose out of states rights issues. Many states now want to legalize medical marijuana and decriminalize small amounts of marijuana possession and use, all under the usual laws requiring competency while driving a motor vehicle just like alcohol. And of course the hemp plant even though it cannot be intoxicating, is well known to provide healthy food products and cheap fiber for paper and clothes and rope, which would boost the American farm economy quite significantly, providing new jobs and a boost to many state economies. Basically Pot is a tenth amendment states rights issue and folks must wake up and get the feds off the states and our backs. If pot was legally grown, used, taxed and regulated like alcohol, the cartels would collapse and tax revenues would increase quite significantly. Besides, if folks aren't hurting anyone, it should be nobody's business what they consume.
Thus illegal narcotics trafficked in under the drug war, including Vietnam War (Air America), under Iran Contra (Mena Ark and Freeway Ricky Ross) benefited from making drugs illegal which raised the price and kept the market strong. LBJ made sure lots of welfare funds were appropriated in his Great Society program and he promised that almost all the money could be recovered by drug sales to the inner cities and then used by Intel for covert black ops (off the books) financing. Numerous former FBI, CIA, DEA have come forward and corroborated this publicly including the great American Heros Bradley Ayers, Celerino Castillo, Michael Levine and some who desire to stay in the shadows but did contact Senators and congressfolks.
Marijuana is a major cash crop in California and growers who pay backsheesh are basically left alone by the police and USG. Their only problems are the criminals and cartels who try to steal their crops. But with the users that's a different matter. They are often abused and needlessly arrested by police, even when causing no problems or using pot for medical reasons by prescriptions from a doctor.
Now here is another fact most cannot fit into their heads. Private prisons are a huge multi-billion dollar industry that competes successfully with Chinese and Mexican labor. Non violent offenders of marijuana laws and victimless crimes are easy to manage and usually productive assemblyline workers. One private prison group won't build and operate a new prison unless local law enforcement signs a secret "quota agreement" which insures a minimum number of arrests and sentences, thus necessitating very tough enforcemnt and numerous fake charges or "charging up" to get jail time. This is a complete violation of the rule of law and the Constitution.
It is time for the Feds to keep their nose out of states rights issues. Many states now want to legalize medical marijuana and decriminalize small amounts of marijuana possession and use, all under the usual laws requiring competency while driving a motor vehicle just like alcohol. And of course the hemp plant even though it cannot be intoxicating, is well known to provide healthy food products and cheap fiber for paper and clothes and rope, which would boost the American farm economy quite significantly, providing new jobs and a boost to many state economies. Basically Pot is a tenth amendment states rights issue and folks must wake up and get the feds off the states and our backs. If pot was legally grown, used, taxed and regulated like alcohol, the cartels would collapse and tax revenues would increase quite significantly. Besides, if folks aren't hurting anyone, it should be nobody's business what they consume.
by vonissk on 28 September 2012 - 05:09
You go Preston!!
by beetree on 28 September 2012 - 13:09
Yeah, and I bet Arkansas is a real happening place, too.
by Keith Grossman on 28 September 2012 - 14:09
"The war on drugs has been a farce from the start and actually a war against the people."
Finally, something about which Preston and I can agree!
This book is a great read on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Drug-Crazy-into-This-Mess/dp/0415926475
Finally, something about which Preston and I can agree!
This book is a great read on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Drug-Crazy-into-This-Mess/dp/0415926475
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