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Title: Legal Weed is Killing Cartels and Corporate Media Is Trying to Say that’s a Bad Thing
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dr ... marijuana/#S9Avr63JZ9Ayf2hk.99
Published: Jan 4, 2017
Author: Jack Burns
Post Date: 2017-01-05 10:27:10 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 22105
Comments: 82
The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado has led to some interesting developments in the war on drugs. According to a video segment on Fox News, seizures of marijuana flowing out of Colorado into neighboring states has risen from 58 in 2008, to 394 in 2015. This indicates Colorado has unwittingly become an exporter of legal weed, found to be illegal in many adjoining states. Sitting in for Fox News’ Shepherd Smith, Gregg Jarrett asked FNC reporter Alicia Acuna if neighboring states were fighting a losing battle. Acuna responded by saying 8 states already have recreational marijuana, and another couple dozen states have some form of medical marijuana at work. Mason Tvert, of the Marijuana Policy Project, told FNC, “If anything, what’s happening is no different than it was before. People are still using marijuana, it’s just that they’re more likely to be using marijuana that didn’t come from a Mexican drug cartel.” According to FNC and University of San Diego professor David Shirk, that fact has now been confirmed. It seems, as marijuana proponents asserted, the Mexican cartels are getting out of the illegal marijuana trade. Shirk says the cartels are turning their backs on marijuana in favor of other “more predatory criminal activities” such as, “kidnapping, extortion, larceny…stealing petroleum from petroleum lines,” Shirk stated. FNC reported what proponents have been saying for years. If you make marijuana legal, the illegal, criminal elements, such as Mexican drug cartels, will find other means to sustain their income. However, it is important to note that the reason these cartels exist in the first place is because of the drug war. Attempting to claim we need the war on drugs to keep the cartels from kidnapping people is like saying we need people to murder each other so police can have a job to do. Had drugs not been illegal in the US, the cartels would have been extremely hard pressed to amass the money and power they now have. Rest assured, however, that kidnapping and larceny are not nearly as sustainable as the drug industry as it is much easier for politicians to look the other way on drug smuggling than it is for them to ignore children being stolen from parents. That’s why, rather than kidnap people, the Mexican cartels are still capitalizing on the American drug war. One such way the Mexican drug cartels have reportedly upped the ante is to produce a drug which is much more addictive than just heroin alone. They mix heroin with Carfentanil, which “is a synthetic opioid so strong that just a few granules the size of grains of table salt can be lethal. Since mid-August, roughly 300 people in at least four states have overdosed on heroin linked to Carfentanil and the less powerful compound fentanyl,” Time reports. If heroin were decriminalized in the US, overdoses would plummet and so would its use. This is not an assertion, it is fact. One positive coming out of Colorado’s legalization of marijuana is the fact that the drug task forces which were previously engaged in going after marijuana, can now turn their attentions to going after the organized criminal element such as the cartels, which have no regard for the patient seeking medicine for whatever ails them. FNC concluded their marijuana segment by saying President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have a problem with medicinal marijuana but added he does not approve of recreational marijuana. Whether or not Trump will allow the continuation of progress in the legalization of marijuana is yet to be seen. Certainly, Colorado will put up a fight if the newly named Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeks to overturn CO’s legal weed business as it’s now providing millions of dollars to help fund the educational system in that state. The FNC segment confirms what TFTP has been saying for months now, legal weed does more to stop the cartels than the official war on drugs. As we reported to you in March, “in the past seven years (seizures of marijuana at the Mexican-American border have dropped) from 4 million pounds in 2009, to just 1.5 million pounds last year.” Poster Comment: Another ancillary benefit of legalizing marijuana. Who would've thought it?
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#3. To: Deckard (#0)
The cartels in Mexico will just increase production of methamphetamines.
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You not only continually publish yellow journalism articles, you now post a yellow meme of lies….have you no shame? LIE #1: Former Speaker of the House [Dennis Hastert] faces 6 months in jail for the raping little boys. Hastert did not face 6 months for raping little boys, he faced 5 years for sexually molesting, not raping, young adult high school boys. [Look up the definitions of sexually molest and rape]. LIE #2: Single mother [Shona Banda], faces nearly 30 years in prison for treating her disease with cannabis. Banda is not facing 30 years in prison for treating her disease with cannabis. Banda was charged with endangering a child, distribution or possession with intent to distribute [intent to distribute is based the large amount of marijuana] a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She's facing up to 28 years in state prison. She faces five marijuana-related charges, including three felonies. Shona Banda uses marijuana, and makes no bones about it. Her son challenged drug war orthodoxy during an anti-drug class at school and inadvertently said that his mom “smokes a lot.” The Department of Children and Families and the Garden City police raided Banda's home and reported, "approximately 500 grams of suspected marijuana, multiple marijuana smoking pipes, three ‘vaporizers’ that were actively manufacturing cannabis oil and multiple other items related to packaging and ingestion of marijuana were seized from the residence." You against the plea bargain? I am okay with it because I see no reason to spend 15 million dollars and take up to a year trying to get a conviction on decades old evidence [60s and 70s] to spend on an old man who will probably die in prison and the taxpayers are charged much more to pay the expensive medical care for him. Furthermore, Hastert was fined $250,000 and sentenced him to two years of supervised release after leaving prison. Hastert must register as a sex offender. In the case of Shona Banda….she should definitely get the sentence prescribed by law upon being found guilty by a jury of her peers, or a plea bargain deal. Banda is an “in your face” marijuana activist who, against the laws of Kansas, publicly admits violates the laws and uses cannabis and cannabis oil for treatment of her Crohn’s disease. She has even authored a book about it: Live Free or Die: Reclaim Your Life…Reclaim Your Country!
Oh - that's what he did? He didn't rape them? Sexually molesting a minor IS just as bad as rape, and if the victims were minors that certainly falls under the category of "statutory rape". You and whitey - always defending the indefensible. In the case of Dennis Hastert….definitely, YES. He has suffered a stoke, has a spinal problem, and is confined to a wheel chair. When sentenced in the plea bargain to 1 year and 3 months, rather than the 5 year maximum….the judge ordered him to spend the time in the prison hospital. Once again - the "Just Us" system is praised by Gatlin. Yet you want to see Shona serve a virtual death sentence for treating her illness with a non-government approved medicine.... Bizarro World! the Garden City police raided Banda's home and reported, "approximately 500 grams of suspected marijuana, multiple marijuana smoking pipes, three ‘vaporizers’ that were actively manufacturing cannabis oil and multiple other items related to packaging and ingestion of marijuana were seized from the residence." 500 grams is equal to around 90 grams low-THC cannabis oil. And you two freaks would be happy sentencing her to death for treating her debilitating disease with something that offered relief and a chance to live a somewhat normal life! You and whitey are real assholes.
If a minor is sexually molested….the charge will be “sexual molestation.” You know, you are pretty dense sometimes….well, make that all the time.
#39. To: Gatlin (#38)
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Yes, but the minor must be raped for the charge to be “statutory rape.” Still defending perverts I see. Do you even know what "statutory rape" means?
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#5. To: redleghunter (#4)
His crew flew two laps of a 1,000 kilometer circuit between Edwards and Yuma, establishing six new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) speed records at an average of 1,708.82 kilometers per hour (1,061.81 miles per hour).
I was stationed with Major Deutschendorf at Carswell for a year before my crew was transferred to the B-58 Wing at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana.
#6. To: Gatlin (#5)
#31. To: Deckard (#6)
Is this justice?
In the case of Dennis Hastert….definitely, YES. He has suffered a stoke, has a spinal problem, and is confined to a wheel chair. When sentenced in the plea bargain to 1 year and 3 months, rather than the 5 year maximum….the judge ordered him to spend the time in the prison hospital. 
#35. To: Gatlin (#31)
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Hastert did not face 6 months for raping little boys, he faced 5 years for sexually molesting, not raping, young adult high school boys.
#38. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#35)
Sexually molesting a minor IS just as bad as rape …
Not according to the law. …. if the victim is a minor and raped, that certainly falls under the category of "statutory rape".
Yes, but the minor must be raped for the charge to be “statutory rape.”
Replies to Comment # 38. …. if the victim is a minor and raped, that certainly falls under the category of "statutory rape".
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