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?
#21: Deckard To: misterwhite (#16)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 12:59:26 Reply Private Reply
#22: misterwhite To: Deckard (#21)
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?
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-06 13:25:14 Reply Private Reply
#23: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#20)
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?
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-06 13:34:29 Reply Private Reply
#24: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#19)
Fine. You're entitled to your opinion.
Just don't set yourself up as some kind of moral authority.
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-06 13:36:22 Reply Private Reply
#25: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#24)
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.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 13:42:39 Reply Private Reply
#26: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#25)
First it was all Arabs. Then all Muslims. Now we're down to radical Muslims. And that makes you moral.
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-06 14:05:49 Reply Private Reply
#27: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#26)
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.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 14:07:54 Reply Private Reply
#28: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#27)
OK. So you believe in the slaughter of 1.6 billion Muslims. And that makes you moral.
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-06 14:16:08 Reply Private Reply
#29: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#28)
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.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 14:22:31 Reply Private Reply
#30: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#28)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...e-shot-one-dead-shooting- Ft-Lauderdale-Hollywood-Airport.html
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 14:26:56 Reply Private Reply
#31: Gatlin To: Deckard (#6)
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."
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.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!
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 14:29:47 Reply Private Reply
#32: Gatlin To: misterwhite, Deckard (#7)
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.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 14:33:54 Reply Private Reply
#33: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#31)
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 14:35:02 Reply Private Reply
#34: Deckard To: misterwhite (#7)
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." -_ Thomas Jefferson.
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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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 14:39:53 Reply Private Reply
#35: Deckard To: Gatlin (#31)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 14:44:17 Reply Private Reply
#36: Gatlin To: Deckard, misterwhite (#8)
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.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.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 14:45:46 Reply Private Reply
#37: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#36)
You could make an even greater argument over the womans 30 year sentence.
If Hastert did it with minors it is rape. Statutory rape.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-06 14:55:24 Reply Private Reply
#38: Gatlin To: Deckard, misterwhite (#35)
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.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 14:57:35 Reply Private Reply
#39: Deckard To: Gatlin (#38)
Still defending perverts I see.
Do you even know what "statutory rape" means?
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 14:59:52 Reply Private Reply
#40: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#37)
Then why was Hastert not charged with “statutory rape” instead of being charged with “sexual molestation?”
There is a difference ...
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 15:12:19 Reply Private Reply
#41: Gatlin To: Deckard (#39)
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?”
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 15:16:05 Reply Private Reply
#42: Gatlin To: Deckard (#35)
Nope, he did not.
Under the law….he “sexually molested” them.
Had he “raped” them….he would have been charged with “statutory rape.”
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 15:21:00 Reply Private Reply
#43: Deckard To: Gatlin (#41)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 15:29:23 Reply Private Reply
#44: Gatlin To: Deckard (#35)
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 …
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 15:41:11 Reply Private Reply
#45: Gatlin To: Deckard (#43)
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.
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:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/statutory+rape .
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 16:13:51 Reply Private Reply
#46: Gatlin To: Deckard (#39)
Definition of statutory rape, from the legal dictionary:
There you go, “Princess.”
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 16:24:10 Reply Private Reply
#47: Deckard To: Gatlin (#44)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 17:01:08 Reply Private Reply
#48: Gatlin To: Deckard, A K A Stne, misterwhite, Roscoe (#34)
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.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 17:41:42 Reply Private Reply
#49: Gatlin To: Deckard (#47)
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.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 17:47:37 Reply Private Reply
#50: GrandIsland To: A K A Stone (#15)
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.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-06 18:02:14 Reply Private Reply
#51: Roscoe To: Gatlin (#48)
Roscoe posted on 2017-01-06 21:08:59 Reply Private Reply
#52: Deckard To: Gatlin (#49)
Good grief, are you freaking serious?:
WTF Do you think he did with them you arrogant defender of perversion?
Deckard posted on 2017-01-06 21:09:05 Reply Private Reply
#53: Gatlin To: Deckard (#52)
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.
There you go, Sport….that should finally clear all of this up for you.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 22:42:12 Reply Private Reply
#54: buckeroo To: Gatlin (#53)
We know ... you disgusting PIG; you are well known to agree with yukon's blow jobs as a minor thing.
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-06 22:45:35 Reply Private Reply
#55: Gatlin To: Deckard (#53)
Tell me why …
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 22:53:01 Reply Private Reply
#56: Gatlin To: Deckard (#55)
Tell me why …
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 23:05:53 Reply Private Reply
#57: Gatlin To: Roscoe (#51)
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-06 23:15:03 Reply Private Reply
#58: Deckard To: Gatlin (#53)
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?
Deckard posted on 2017-01-07 02:20:46 Reply Private Reply
#59: Deckard To: Gatlin (#55)
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.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-07 02:24:50 Reply Private Reply
#60: Gatlin To: Deckard (#58)
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.
It’s what the boys SWORE to in their affidavit….it is not what he admitted to.And BTW....never attribute another FALSE QUOTE to Thomas Jefferson AGAIN.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-07 05:03:34 Reply Private Reply
#61: Gatlin To: Deckard (#59)
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?
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-07 05:41:53 Reply Private Reply
#62: Roscoe To: Gatlin (#57)
It looks like he's gone into his oft used pretend it never happened mode.
Roscoe posted on 2017-01-07 06:46:43 Reply Private Reply
#63: Deckard To: Gatlin (#61)
Deckard posted on 2017-01-07 08:08:35 Reply Private Reply
#64: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#63)
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.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-07 08:12:35 Reply Private Reply
#65: Gatlin To: Roscoe (#62)
Right.
The Conspiracy Plan Fact Evasion Zulu 3 Mode....oft used by reptilian humanoids when they feel “demons” are hounding them with truth.
Gatlin posted on 2017-01-07 08:56:02 Reply Private Reply
#66: buckeroo To: Deckard, tater (#65)
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-07 09:10:00 Reply Private Reply
#67: misterwhite To: Deckard (#34)
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-07 09:56:09 Reply Private Reply
#68: misterwhite To: Deckard (#34)
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".
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-07 09:59:43 Reply Private Reply
#69: Roscoe To: Gatlin (#65)
Roscoe posted on 2017-01-07 10:28:28 Reply Private Reply
#70: misterwhite To: Gatlin (#31)
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.
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-07 10:28:45 Reply Private Reply