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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: 23771
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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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
How about going after the people illegally smuggling marijuana from Colorado to the surrounding states?
Why would that drug addict loving special Olympics stain want to do that? Decktard is so liberally self important, that he doesn't feel he needs to obey ANY law he disagrees with. He's the smartest, most import PAULTARD he knows. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
The cartels in Mexico will just increase production of methamphetamines.
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"Last Friday, the state of Kansas charged Banda with five felony counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, manufacturing Tetrahydrocannabinol, an oil extracted from marijuana, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of child endangerment." I hope she gets all 30 of those years.
Yet, your "boy" Hastert raped kids and got a slap on the wrist. I guess that's why they call it the "Just US" system. And you're totes jelly.
You're a bully.
Hastert was neither charged nor convicted of "raping kids". He pled guilty to structuring bank withdrawals. He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison, two years' supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. You're thinking of the guy who was blackmailing Hastert for $3.5 million -- a federal crime for which he got off scot-free.
Because I believe in law and order? Then change the law.
Oh - you mean he didn't do it? You're pathetic. It is certainly an assertion.
You break the law and so do I. Morals are superior to the law. If the are true morals as defined by me. Not because i'm so smart or superior. I'll just tell you the truth of what right and wrong is. Do you ever disobey laws you think are stupid? I do.
Oh. Is that the new standard? Whether or not we think he did it? Well, just remember that the next time SWAT breaks into a drug house and finds no drugs. Then I get to ask you -- you mean there weren't drugs there at one time?
Which would be according to your morals. This, coming from one who thinks it's OK to kill all Palestinians. Hell, all Arabs.
Which are true morals. There isn't your morals or my morals. There are just morals. Moral and immoral. Some dumb people either lie or have deluded themselves. But there truly is a right and a wrong a moral and an immoral.
Actually I said all Muslims. Because that is self defense. And i'm not totally serious anyway. But I do think it would be just to have the government kill any Muslim. By muslim I mean ones that totally believe the Koran. That think it is their command to kill infidels. That are willing to do it. That is what a muslim is as defined by the Koran. Some people might call themselves muslim like some people call themselves christian. But they really aren't.
Hitler believed in law and order. I'm not saying you are Hitler, not even close. You just defend immoral things and hide behind the law. 30 years is excessive. It is immoral to sentence someone to 30 years for what she is sentenced to. Your lame well change the law is just that lame. You can't just change the law.
He admitted to the crime. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday admitted to sexually abusing teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach in a Chicago suburb before his career as an elected official. Struggling to stand in federal court Wednesday, 74-year-old Hastert gripped his walker, approached the microphone and said that he "mistreated" some of his wrestlers and apologized. "They looked to me, and I took advantage of them," Hastert said as he awaited his sentencing after pleading guilty last fall to breaking federal banking laws in a hush-money case. "I apologize to the court and to the people of the United States." Judge Thomas Durkin sentenced Hastert to 15 months in prison, a $250,000 fine, along with two years of supervised release on the condition that he get sex offender treatment. Prosecutors had recommended a six-month sentence. Durkin called Hastert a "serial child molester" and said he must not contact any of his victims. Why not? They couldn't charge him and it reduced his sentence to 15 months from a possible 5 years. Why did the blackmailer get off scot-free?
Hitler also believed in exterminating Jews, saying they were less than human. I'm not saying I believe that, not even close. "30 years is excessive." For five separate felonies?
Fine. You're entitled to your opinion. Just don't set yourself up as some kind of moral authority.
Just don't set yourself up as some kind of moral authority. I do know right and wrong. If Muslims say they are going to kill you, then you have a right to kill them first through your representative government.
First it was all Arabs. Then all Muslims. Now we're down to radical Muslims. And that makes you moral.
It was never Arabs. It is still all Muslims. You are only a muslim if you believe the Koran. If you believe the Koran then you are commanded to kill MR. WHites.
OK. So you believe in the slaughter of 1.6 billion Muslims. And that makes you moral.
You have a reading comprehension problem. There are not 1.6 billion muslims as I defined them. You actually have the same view as me on this. Yes you do. Yes you do I said so.
Your view of letting them run rampant leads to this. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...e-shot-one-dead-shooting- Ft-Lauderdale-Hollywood-Airport.html
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!
I hope she gets all 30 of those years. I am I am reading your post after I posted #31. I am in agreement with you for the reasons I stated in my post.
30 years is excessive. It is cruel and unusual punishment imo.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." -_ Thomas Jefferson. *** Shona is determined to seek all remedies available to her under the law, including a possible civil lawsuit in federal court against Kansas state officials. It would assert her constitutional right to use cannabis to treat her Crohn’s disease. Bills have been introduced in the Kansas legislature to allow the medical use of cannabis, but have never advanced. A narrow bill allowing low-THC cannabis oil for treatment of seizures is having a difficult time getting past drug war fanatics in the chamber. This is the kind of primitive mindset that Shona is fighting now and has fought since the introduction of her book in 2010. Cannabis works for her illness, and it works for countless others in various ways. The Free Thought Project has reported extensively on the many therapeutic uses of cannabis that are being ever more confirmed by medical science. Shona suffered with Crohn’s disease for eight years, eventually becoming bed-ridden and having to walk with a cane. She underwent 15 surgeries and had “every organ removed that can be removed” from her body. In 2007, she watched a documentary called Run From the Cure by Rick Simpson, and realized that the power to cure herself was within reach. Shona began using a vaporizing machine to make her own cannabis capsules, which she took three times a day. Within weeks, she was “completely changed” and was able to resume a full life with her family. She felt compelled to write a journal, and that turned into the book Live Free or Die. I hope she gets all 30 of those years. The five charges levied against her by the state of Kansas could amount to more than 30 years in prison, which would essentially be a death sentence, as she would be deprived of the treatment that cures her disease. 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. Yet, your "boy" Hastert raped kids and got a slap on the wrist. I guess that's why they call it the "Just US" system Hastert was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months. The maximum sentence he could have received under the law for sexual molestation was 5 years. Would you rather the state spend millions of dollars and waste one year time to get the additional 3 years and 9 months added on his time….or offer the plea deal? The tax payers will spend a huge amount of money to have him treated daily for the 1 year and 3 months he will spend in the prison hospital. wWhy should they pay triple that amount when he is probably going to die anyway in prison? You make no sense in your arguments.
You make no sense in your arguments. You could make an even greater argument over the womans 30 year sentence. If Hastert did it with minors it is rape. Statutory rape.
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.
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? Then why was Hastert not charged with “statutory rape” instead of being charged with “sexual molestation?” There is a difference ...
Nope, just clarifying the law for you. Yep….you obviously don’t. Do you know the difference between “statutory rape” and “sexual molestation of a minor?”
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"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"
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
(Edited)
How about going after the people illegally smuggling marijuana from Colorado to the surrounding states?
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
#4. To: All (#3)
#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)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#7. To: Deckard (#6)
#8. To: misterwhite (#7)
(Edited)
I hope she gets all 30 of those years.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
Hastert raped kids
#10. To: misterwhite (#7)
I hope she gets all 30 of those years.
#11. To: Deckard (#8)
"Yet, your "boy" Hastert raped kids and got a slap on the wrist."
#12. To: A K A Stone (#10)
"You're a bully."
#13. To: misterwhite (#11)
Hastert was neither charged nor convicted of "raping kids"
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#14. To: Deckard (#0)
If heroin were decriminalized in the US, overdoses would plummet and so would its use. This is not an assertion, it is fact.
#15. To: GrandIsland (#2)
#16. To: Deckard (#13)
"Oh - you mean he didn't do it?"
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
"If the are true morals as defined by me. I'll just tell you the truth of what right and wrong is."
#18. To: misterwhite (#17)
Which would be according to your morals.
#19. To: misterwhite (#17)
This, coming from one who thinks it's OK to kill all Palestinians. Hell, all Arabs.
#20. To: misterwhite (#12)
Because I believe in law and order?
#21. To: misterwhite (#16)
Oh. Is that the new standard? Whether or not we think he did it?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#22. To: Deckard (#21)
(Edited)
"He admitted to the crime."
#23. To: A K A Stone (#20)
"Hitler believed in law and order. I'm not saying you are Hitler, not even close."
#24. To: A K A Stone (#19)
"But I do think it would be just to have the government kill any Muslim."
#25. To: misterwhite (#24)
"But I do think it would be just to have the government kill any Muslim." Fine. You're entitled to your opinion.
#26. To: A K A Stone (#25)
"If Muslims say they are going to kill you ..."
#27. To: misterwhite (#26)
"If Muslims say they are going to kill you ..." First it was all Arabs. Then all Muslims. Now we're down to radical Muslims. And that makes you moral.
#28. To: A K A Stone (#27)
"It is still all Muslims."
#29. To: misterwhite (#28)
OK. So you believe in the slaughter of 1.6 billion Muslims. And that makes you moral.
#30. To: misterwhite (#28)
#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. 
#32. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#7)
"Last Friday, the state of Kansas charged Banda with five felony counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, manufacturing Tetrahydrocannabinol, an oil extracted from marijuana, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of child endangerment."
#33. To: Gatlin (#31)
#34. To: misterwhite (#7)
the state of Kansas charged Banda with five felony counts
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#35. To: Gatlin (#31)
(Edited)
Hastert did not face 6 months for raping little boys, he faced 5 years for sexually molesting, not raping, young adult high school boys.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#36. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#8)
I hope she gets all 30 of those years.
Yet, your "boy" Hastert raped kids and got a slap on the wrist.
He did not “rape little boys.” He “sexually molested young high school boys.” Sexually molest is bad enough, but rape is atrocious. What he did was terrible, don’t use inflammatory rhetoric to bolster your position.
#37. To: Gatlin (#36)
Hastert was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months. The maximum sentence he could have received under the law for sexual molestation was 5 years. Would you rather the state spend millions of dollars and waste one year time to get the additional 3 years and 9 months added on his time….or offer the plea deal? The tax payers will spend a huge amount of money to have him treated daily for the 1 year and 3 months he will spend in the prison hospital. wWhy should they pay triple that amount when he is probably going to die anyway in prison?
#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.”
#39. To: Gatlin (#38)
(Edited)
…. if the victim is a minor and raped, that certainly falls under the category of "statutory rape".
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#40. To: A K A Stone (#37)
If Hastert did it with minors it is rape. Statutory rape.
If Hastert did it with minors it is rape. Statutory rape
#41. To: Deckard (#39)
Still defending perverts I see.
Do you even know what "statutory rape" means?
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