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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
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Views: 23820
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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#35. To: Gatlin (#31)
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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?”
Nope, he did not. Under the law….he “sexually molested” them. Had he “raped” them….he would have been charged with “statutory rape.”
Statutory rape is sexual activity in which one of the individuals is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior. In statutory rape, overt force or threat is usually not present. Statutory rape laws presume coercion, because a minor or mentally handicapped adult is legally incapable of giving consent to the act. The term statutory rape generally refers to sex between an adult and a sexually mature minor past the age of puberty. Sexual relations with a prepubescent child, generically called child sexual abuse or molestation, is typically treated as a more serious crime. Keep defending that POS pervert Hastert. You're one disgustingly sick old man. Oh, that’s your point? And you are going to ignore the fact that “multiple marijuana smoking pipes, three ‘vaporizers’ and multiple other items related to packaging and ingestion of marijuana not needed to make cannabis oil were seized from the residence." And you also going to conveniently ignore that the fact that Shona Banda “smoked weed everyday with her son, Joshua Banda, and his girlfriend, Tequila Mader? This is from the testimony of her other son, the 11-year old one. How conveniently “decent” of you … Oh, “the poor little woman was ONLY trying to make a little bit of cannabis oil to treat her illness.” BULLSHIT! The woman fully deserves what punishment the jury decides she should have …
Oh, Wikipedia….huh? You go cherry pick and use Wikipedia for the definition you want to find. But you should to the legal dictionary for the definition of statutory rape. Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age. The criminal offense of statutory rape is committed whenan adult sexually penetrates a person who, under the law, is incapable of consenting to sex. Minors and physically and mentally incapacitated persons incapable of consenting to sex under rape statutes in all states. These persons are considered deserving of special protection because they are especially vulnerable due to their youth or condition. There you go, pal. If Hastert had committed “statutory rape” he would have been charged with “statutory rape.” He did not commit “rape.” He “sexually molested” the boys and he was charged with “sexual molestation.” Do you know what Hastert actually DID to the boy, the one who made the charge? You should know before you make a malicious charge….shouldn’t you? Of course … Edit: Hyperlink above is not working:
Definition of statutory rape, from the legal dictionary: Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age. The criminal offense of statutory rape is committed whenan adult sexually penetrates a person who, under the law, is incapable of consenting to sex. Minors and physically and mentally incapacitated persons incapable of consenting to sex under rape statutes in all states. These persons are considered deserving of special protection because they are especially vulnerable due to their youth or condition. There you go, “Princess.”
Yet you continue to defend a perverted POS who screwed boys while a wrestling coach. Your sense of morality and decency are all messed up. Thomas Jefferson never made this statement, you asshole. You really stop to blindly grabbing something off the internet and posting it as Gospel. In doing so, you are continuing to show yourself to be an idiot. Stop, at least sometimes, and do some fact-checking to determine the validity of what you post.
He never screwed boys, he sexually molested boys. There is a legally defined difference….you know that by now, I have pointed it out to you. I am not defending him, I am showing you to be the idiot you are for not knowing what you are talking about. Your sense is all messed up....in fact, you have none.
No. If I disagree with one, I'll try to change the law... or, like with the NYS SafeAct, I left the state and took my guns with me...and I'll spend my NYS pension in another state. Fuck Cuomo. He just cost NYS several million dollars due to his insolence. You can't see the slippery slope associated with picking and choosing what laws you agree with? The dude in Florida, today, thought the same way as you. He didn't feel murder laws were morally right... so he killed 5 people at the airport. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
http://thefederalistpapers.org/founders/jefferson/top-ten-fake-thomas-jefferson-quotes
Good grief, are you freaking serious?: WTF Do you think he did with them you arrogant defender of perversion? Good grief, are you freaking serious? WTF Do you think he did with them you arrogant defender of perversion? The prosecutor said Hastert fondled the boys and performed oral sex on them….that was by legal definition, “sexual molestation” and not “rape.” If Hastert had performed sexual intercourse with them in the anus….that would have been “rape” by legal definition and also “statutory rape” by legal definition because of their ages. The prosecutor never said or charged that happened. So, asshole, listen up…I will tell you one more time: He never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys. YES! “Good grief, I am freaking serious!” What Hastert did was bad, bad….terribly bad. But he did not “rape” the boys as the charge on your yellow meme states. You obviously have great difficulty understanding all of this….so I will repeat if to you for maybe the third time on this thread. Definition of statutory rape, from the legal dictionary. Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age. The criminal offense of statutory rape is committed when an adult sexually penetrates a person who, under the law, is incapable of consenting to sex. Minors and physically and mentally incapacitated persons incapable of consenting to sex under rape statutes in all states. These persons are considered deserving of special protection because they are especially vulnerable due to their youth or condition. There you go, Sport….that should finally clear all of this up for you.
We know ... you disgusting PIG; you are well known to agree with yukon's blow jobs as a minor thing.
You do know that sexual molestation charges were never filed and will never be filed against Hastert….and you do know why, right? Tell me why …
You do know that only banking charges were filed against Hastert….and you do know why, right? Tell me why …
Awh, I wanted him to argue with me and go to where he copied it to declare that as an authoritative source, so I could bitch slap him some more with the truth. Maybe he will step in his shit again….and I can still do it. We shall see …
"...oral sex with a minor”. Oral sex is not sex? Thanks for clearing that up Bill Clinton The prosecutor said Hastert fondled the boys and performed oral sex on them…. Oh - and you really think that's all he did? It's what he admitted to. The guy is a perverted, sick, child molester, and you want me to have sympathy for him? Tell me why … Plea deal and he is a member of a protected class - not a mundane. You really think if Joe Six-Pack coerced kids into sex he would have gotten a lenient sentence like the one Hastert got? The "Just Us" system at it's finest. That is correct: “He never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys.” Yes, dummy…oral sex is sex. But oral sex is not sexual intercourse….according to the legal definition. “Screwing” is sexual intercourse….oral sex is not sexual intercourse. He [Hastert] never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys. Bill Clinton is a lawyer, he knew EXACTLY what he was saying when he said: “I never had sexual intercourse with that woman …” By “legal definition, he DID NOT. He was spinning….just as you always do. But he was legally correct. Oral sex is NOT sexual intercourse….oral sex is not “screwing.” He [Hastert] never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys. WHAT” There YOU said IT; MOLESTER! He sexually molested the boys, he did not screw them….he did not have sexual intercourse with them. He did not rape them as your yellow journalism meme states. No, I don’t want you to feel sorry for the guy. I want you to recognize what legally happened, use the correct legal terms to make the CORRECT charges…..not sound like some old eighteenth century biddy. Oh - and you really think that's all he did? It's what he admitted to. And BTW....never attribute another FALSE QUOTE to Thomas Jefferson AGAIN.
...sexual molestation charges were never filed and will never be filed against Hastert….and you do know why, right? Tell me why … Plea deal and he is a member of a protected class - not a mundane. See, you don’t know what you are talking about. You don’t even know the facts here….none of them. There was NO plea deal for Hastert….there were NEVER any sexual molestation charges filed. He was never charged with sexual molestation because the statute of limitations had expired on any possible sexual molestation charges. NO PLEA DEAL….GOT IT NOW? Really “Princess,” don’t you feel severely embarrassed? You should. You have just finished making a complete ass of yourself on this thread….You never even knew what charges were and were not brought and why. For you, it is the just the “U” in “dUmmy….”U” at your finest. Have you NOW finished making a complete ass of yourself….AGAIN?
It looks like he's gone into his oft used pretend it never happened mode.
It never fails to amaze me the depths you will sink to in your convoluted effort to defend perversion, especially when it occurs within the ruling class or its enforcers.
lol ~ there must be a public park you can camp in for 60 days, piss and shit all over it while you've quit your job.... to bitch about people with more money than you. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Right. The Conspiracy Plan Fact Evasion Zulu 3 Mode....oft used by reptilian humanoids when they feel “demons” are hounding them with truth.
Deckard, Do you see how these imbeciles suck up to each other?
"Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's medical leadership does not support the use of 'medical marijuana' in people with IBD."
And, according to testimony from her 11-year-old son, Shona Banda “smoked weed everyday with her 18-year-old son Joshua Banda and his girlfriend Tequila Mader".
Aren't Dickhard and suckeroo just made for each other?
The statute of limitations had expired. Hastert was neither charged nor convicted of raping or molesting kids. He pled guilty to structuring bank withdrawals and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison, two years' supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. During sentencing, the federal judge pressured Hastert into admitting he molested the boys. I would have told the judge it was none of his business -- and it wasn't. But Hastert faced a maximum of 5 years in prison, and probably thought that discretion was the better part of valor.
Well, she had to smoke the pot to suppress her gag reflex so that she could swallow all the pills.
Maybe they need to take the pot in suppository form.
Geez Louise. They put those in a .38 spl and shoot them up their ass?
In no way did I ever defend Hastert’s perversion. What he did was repulsive. He should have been sent to jail for sexually molesting “at least 4” young adult boys in high school. But unfortunately his heinous acts were not discovered until after the statute of limitations had expired. You started this discussion by posting a lie.. You posted the meme that stated: You had to know that was an outright lie because you hawk news sources and could not have seen factual news of the charge and sentencing. I will repost the summation originally posted by misterwhite, a wise man distinguished for his great knolwledge, sound judgment and a sage philosopher whose wisdom you should carefully listen to as he presented the factual truth in hope that you can finally comprehend where you went wrong and how idiotic you have been during the discussion on this thread. During sentencing, the federal judge pressured Hastert into admitting he molested the boys. I would have told the judge it was none of his business -- and it wasn't. But Hastert faced a maximum of 5 years in prison, and probably thought that discretion was the better part of valor. You tried at one time to close out the thread by once again presenting….a what? Another flat out lie….a spurious quote you fictitiously credited to Thomas Jefferson. It is spread all over the internet that the quote you posted has never been found in any of Thomas Jefferson's papers. The best deduction to be made is that perhaps it is a paraphrase of Jefferson's statement in the Declaration of Independence, "...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...." Such a paraphrase is really stretching it and would be taking some radical liberties with the original version. Deckard, There is no one crazier outside an insane asylum than you. Your bizarre statements prove this to be true.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestHastert 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)
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…. 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?
#42. To: Deckard (#35)
He didn't rape them?
#43. To: Gatlin (#41)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#44. To: Deckard (#35)
500 grams is equal to around 90 grams low-THC cannabis oil.
#45. To: Deckard (#43)
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Statutory Rape –
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/statutory+rape .
#46. To: Deckard (#39)
Do you even know what "statutory rape" means?
Statutory Rape –
#47. To: Gatlin (#44)
The woman fully deserves what punishment the jury decides she should have …
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#48. To: Deckard, A K A Stne, misterwhite, Roscoe (#34)
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." -_ Thomas Jefferson.
#49. To: Deckard (#47)
Yet you continue to defend a perverted POS who screwed boys while a wrestling coach.
#50. To: A K A Stone (#15)
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Do you ever disobey laws you think are stupid? I do.
#51. To: Gatlin (#48)
#52. To: Gatlin (#49)
He never screwed boys, he sexually molested 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.
#53. To: Deckard (#52)
He never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys.
It is not what I think Hastert did with them, it is that the prosecutors said, based on the testimony of the boys, in the filing….that Hastert’s known sexual acts against Individual A and other accusers consist of “intentional touching of minors’ groin area and genitals or oral sex with a minor”. Statutory Rape –
#54. To: Gatlin (#53)
YES! “Good grief, I am freaking serious!”
#55. To: Deckard (#53)
#56. To: Deckard (#55)
#57. To: Roscoe (#51)
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#58. To: Gatlin (#53)
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He never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the 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.
#59. To: Gatlin (#55)
...sexual molestation charges were never filed and will never be filed against Hastert….and you do know why, right?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#60. To: Deckard (#58)
He never screwed the boys, he sexually molested the boys.
"...oral sex with a minor”.
Oral sex is not sex?
Thanks for clearing that up Bill Clinton Thanks for clearing that up Bill Clinton
The guy is a perverted, sick, child molester, and you want me to have sympathy for him?
The prosecutor said Hastert fondled the boys and performed oral sex on them….
It’s what the boys SWORE to in their affidavit….it is not what he admitted to.
#61. To: Deckard (#59)
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Prosecutors noted the statute of limitation on any sex-abuse charges have long since expired, making banking charges the only ones they could pursue.
The "Just Us" system at it's finest.
#62. To: Gatlin (#57)
Awh, I wanted him to argue with me and go to where he copied it to declare that as an authoritative source, so I could bitch slap him some more with the truth. Maybe he will step in his shit again….and I can still do it. We shall see …
#63. To: Gatlin (#61)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#64. To: Deckard (#63)
when it occurs within the ruling class
#65. To: Roscoe (#62)
It looks like he's gone into his oft used pretend it never happened mode.
#66. To: Deckard, tater (#65)
#67. To: Deckard (#34)
#68. To: Deckard (#34)
"Shona began using a vaporizing machine to make her own cannabis capsules, which she took three times a day."
#69. To: Gatlin (#65)
#70. To: Gatlin (#31)
#71. To: misterwhite (#68)
#72. To: misterwhite (#67)
"Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's medical leadership does not support the use of 'medical marijuana' in people with IBD."
#73. To: Roscoe (#72)
#74. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#63)
It never fails to amaze me the depths you will sink to in your convoluted effort to defend perversion, especially when it occurs within the ruling class or its enforcers.
Former Speaker of the House faces 6 months in jail for raping 5 little boys.
The statute of limitations had expired. Hastert was neither charged nor convicted of raping or molesting kids. He pled guilty to structuring bank withdrawals and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison, two years' supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." -_ Thomas Jefferson.
#75. To: Roscoe (#69)
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Aren't Dickhard and suckeroo just made for each other?
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