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Title: Media Shamefully Links Ohio Massacre to Weed When it Should be Blaming the War on Weed
Source: Blacklisted News
URL Source: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Medi ... on_Weed/50751/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Published: Apr 27, 2016
Author: Justin Gardner
Post Date: 2016-04-27 09:02:46 by Deckard
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Views: 4274
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Authorities are sharing few details of their investigation into the appalling murder of eight family members in Pike County, Ohio. Autopsy reports confirm that the victims all died of gunshot wounds, and several pieces of evidence have been sent to the Bureau of Investigation for analysis.

There was one piece of information, however, that government was quick to release to the public—the existence of cannabis growing facilities at three of the properties. The plant is still illegal in Ohio, although a ballot measure for the legalization of medical cannabis use has cleared its first hurdle.

The victims are 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their three children, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr., 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden and 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden; Christopher Rhoden Sr.’s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; their cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden, and 20-year-old Hannah Gilley, whose 6-month old son with Frankie was unharmed.

Two other children, Hanna Rhoden’s 4-day-old daughter and Frankie Rhoden’s 3-year-old son, also were unharmed.

The fact that the victims grew cannabis and probably sold it to others will undoubtedly play into the hands of drug war crusaders. Some in the media have already picked up on the narrative, dutifully echoing government spokesmen.

The opening paragraph of an article titled “Mexican cartels have used Pike County for pot grows” appearing at Cincinatti.com reads:

“The remoteness of Pike County’s wooded countryside makes it a perfect place for Mexican cartels trying to grow marijuana stateside.”

Although there is no link whatsoever to the brutal Mexican cartels and the Rhoden family, and no actual evidence is offered of Mexican drug cartels operating in Ohio, this media outlet feels fine wielding such a red herring.

The article goes on to talk about three past cases of large cannabis grow operations in Pike County that were “related to some kind of organized crime,” although no details were offered. Cincinatti.com even asserted that extracting oil from cannabis is as prone to explosions as methamphetamine labs, and these “shatter” labs are on the rise.

About 200 cannabis plants were found inside some of the homes of the Rhoden family victims.

The most important thing to remember is that there is nothing wrong with growing a therapeutic plant that is legal for medicinal use in 23 states. And, if the Rhoden family sold cannabis to others, there is nothing inherently violent or victimizing in the voluntary exchange of a dried plant.

Despite this, law enforcement and media are pushing a narrative that serves the interest of perpetuating the war on drugs. Simply mentioning the possibility of Mexican drug cartels being involved is enough to sway the minds of citizens, especially with a vote on legalizing medical cannabis possibly on the horizon.

Mexican cartels are notorious for having tortured and killed thousands of people in recent years as they operate the black market for drugs. The fact that government prohibition of drugs is the creator of this vicious black market is becoming increasingly known to all, and the momentum to change course is growing. This is the point that the narrative pushers refuse to acknowledge.

Mexico’s own president, Enrique Peña Nieto, recognizes the folly of the drug war, which is why he helped initiate the recent UN special session on drugs. The meeting turned out to be a disappointment, but Peña Nieto set the tone for the future, saying:

“So far, the solutions [to control drugs and crime] implemented by the international community have been frankly insufficient. We must move beyond prohibition to effective prevention.”

Former Colombian president, who also hails from a country mired in the drug black market, said that the UN’s goal of a “society free of drug abuse” is “unrealistic, totally naive, almost stupid.

The growing of 200 cannabis plants by the Rhoden family could have nothing to do with “organized crime,” much less the Mexican variety, as it was suggested by law enforcement and parroted by Cincinatti.com and CBS.

Violence originates from the black market and cops who facilitate the drug war, not from the growth, use and sale of a therapeutic plant.

In fact, cannabis growers like the Rhodens are defying the drug war in prohibitionist states like Ohio for the sole purpose of helping others. Medical cannabis provides a miraculous treatment to children suffering from epileptic seizures, along with the ability to treat a vast array of other ailments.

Desperate parents looking to cure their children, or veterans of war who cannot treat their PTSD with other means, or any number of other patients will assuredly seek out the right medicine. Such was the case with Cyndimae Meehan’s mother, who had to become a criminal in Connecticut for her epileptic daughter before moving to a state with medical cannabis.

Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine admitted he has “no idea” whether a Mexican drug cartel is behind the Piketon murders. He has mixed feelings on cannabis, saying that legalizing recreational use would be “setting up kids for failure” (even though teen cannabis use in Colorado has declined) but does not oppose medical use.

Dewine certified a petition for a medical cannabis ballot measure that could appear in November. If approved by voters, the constitutional amendment would mean:

“Adults could grow, buy, and use marijuana if a physician recommends marijuana for a qualifying medical condition such as cancer, seizure disorders, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Minors could use marijuana with written permission of a parent or guardian.

Approved patients could buy and possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and grow up to six plants or designate another adult to grow for them.

The first 15 commercial growing licenses would be for large-scale growers who pay a $500,000 application fee, but then there would be an unlimited number of licenses available for small- and medium-scale growers.”

Although it would represent some progress against the immoral war on drugs, in many Ohioan minds the amendment would not go far enough. By giving a little bit of “freedom,” authorities can pre-empt or at least stall any further dismantling of government prohibition. Real reform would mean putting an end to criminalizing people for voluntarily using substances in their own body.

There is not much hope that media and government drug war crusaders will abandon their hints that the Rhodens were caught up with notoriously violent foreign drug cartels. There is even less chance that they will inform the public that their own primitive, failed prohibition of drugs is to blame for these cartels.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

"And, if the Rhoden family sold cannabis to others, there is nothing inherently violent or victimizing in the voluntary exchange of a dried plant."

8 dead in Ohio and they write this bullshit about "nothing inherently violent". Here. Play the song twice:

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   9:27:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: misterwhite (#1)

8 dead in Ohio and they write this bullshit about "nothing inherently violent".

YOU have to be on drugs to think that marijuana is responsible for those murders.

Either that,or you need to be on drugs.

I guess you think GM is responsible for drunk driving deaths when it was a GM car involved?

You don't have a single actual thought in your pointy little head,do you,Buckwheat?

BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!

ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.

sneakypete  posted on  2016-04-27   9:36:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#0)

"The most important thing to remember is that there is nothing wrong with growing a therapeutic plant that is legal for medicinal use in 23 states."

If you're growing in one of those 23 states. Ohio isn't among them. Meaning there's everything wrong with growing it.

“Adults could grow, buy, and use marijuana if a physician recommends marijuana for a qualifying medical condition such as cancer, seizure disorders, or post-traumatic stress disorder."

The issue will be on the November ballot and already they've added a ton of other "medical conditions" including "pain" and "nausea". In other words, there are no limits.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   9:42:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: misterwhite (#1)

Here. Play the song twice:

I bet you cheered when government troops killed the 4 protestors at Kent State.

Lick those jackboots paulsen!

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

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Deckard  posted on  2016-04-27   10:02:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Deckard (#0)

there is nothing wrong with growing a therapeutic plant

Just ignore the corpses

Roscoe  posted on  2016-04-27   10:20:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Deckard (#4)

"I bet you cheered when government troops killed the 4 protestors at Kent State."

Not at the time. I was an anti-establishment student at the time, attending a college not far from Kent State. I drove down with a bunch of fraternity brothers to visit after the shooting.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   10:44:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: misterwhite (#6)

I was an anti-establishment student at the time

Interesting.

At what point in your life did you become the boot-licking government sycophant that you are today?

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2016-04-27   11:02:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: misterwhite (#1)

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was related to prohibition, much as this one is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine's_Day_Massacre

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates including a mechanic of the North Side Irish gang led by George "Bugs" Moran during the Prohibition Era.[1] It resulted from the struggle – between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone – to take control of organized crime in Chicago.[2] Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.

Pinguinite  posted on  2016-04-27   11:10:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Pinguinite (#8)

"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was related to prohibition, much as this one is."

And I cared equally about both incidents.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   11:23:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: misterwhite (#1)

8 dead in Ohio and they write this bullshit about "nothing inherently violent".

Which part of "inherently" did you not understand?

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-04-27   12:10:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: ConservingFreedom (#10)

"Which part of "inherently" did you not understand?"

I understood 'inherently' to be one big, fat weasel word. The kind you use all the time.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   12:27:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: misterwhite (#11)

I understood 'inherently' to be one big, fat weasel word.

Some free education for you:

inherent [in-heer-uh nt, -her-] adjective 1. existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering

www.dictionary.com/browse /inherently

For example, trade in the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol involved significant violence when that drug was illegal, but to a negligible to nonexistent degree now that the drug is legal - so violence is not inherent to the trade in the drug alcohol.

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-04-27   12:34:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: misterwhite (#9)

And I cared

Well bless your little caring heart.

U don't know me  posted on  2016-04-27   13:29:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: ConservingFreedom (#12)

For example, trade in the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol involved significant violence when that drug was illegal, but to a negligible to nonexistent degree now that the drug is legal - so violence is not inherent to the trade in the drug alcohol.

So violence would be inherent in the illegal trade of marijuana. Yet the author says it isn't.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   13:33:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: misterwhite (#14)

So violence would be inherent in the illegal trade of marijuana. Yet the author says it isn't.

The author didn't say "illegal", sneak.

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-04-27   13:38:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: ConservingFreedom (#15)

For example, trade in the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol involved significant violence when that drug was illegal, but to a negligible to nonexistent degree now that the drug is legal - so violence is not inherent to the trade in the drug alcohol.

So violence would be inherent in the illegal trade of marijuana. Yet the author says it isn't. --- misterwhite

So violence would be inherent in the illegal trade of marijuana. Yet the author says it isn't.

The author didn't say "illegal", sneak. --- ConservingFreedom

You're being far to fair to just say that misterwhite is a mere "sneak"..

He's an out an out nasty master of agit-prop, and will write ANYTHING to spread his anti-constitutional agenda.

-- violence is not inherent to the (drug) trade ---

tpaine  posted on  2016-04-27   13:57:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: ConservingFreedom (#15)

"The author didn't say "illegal", sneak."

But it is illegal and the author is ignoring that inconvenient fact when claiming there is nothing inherently violent "in the voluntary exchange of a dried plant".

Meaning his weasely statement is irrelevant.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   14:02:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: misterwhite (#17)

But it is illegal and the author is ignoring that inconvenient fact when claiming there is nothing inherently violent "in the voluntary exchange of a dried plant".

Wrong, because illegality is likewise not inherent in that exchange.

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-04-27   14:09:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: ConservingFreedom (#18)

"Wrong, because illegality is likewise not inherent in that exchange."

That's why the use of the word "inherent" is a weasel word. That exchange IS illegal. You can't pretend that away and then make statements based on that fantasy.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-04-27   14:26:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: misterwhite, conserving freedom, Y'ALL (#19)

misterwhite (#17) --- But it is illegal and the author is ignoring that inconvenient fact when claiming there is nothing inherently violent "in the voluntary exchange of a dried plant".

Wrong, because illegality is likewise not inherent in that exchange. --- ConservingFreedom

That's why the use of the word "inherent" is a weasel word. That exchange IS illegal. You can't pretend that away and then make statements based on that fantasy. --- misterwhite

That exchange IS NOT illegal, according to our Constitution, and verified by the FACT that States are legalizing.

You can't pretend that away.

tpaine  posted on  2016-04-27   14:38:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: misterwhite (#19)

pretend that away

Pathetic straw man.

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-04-27   15:05:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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