Yeah,huge problem!Legalize it stupid.War on drugs?How about war on tobacco and other more dangerous legal drugs?What hypocrites!!
How alarmed and angry would Americans be if they knew armed foreign nationals are protecting Mexican marijuana cartels growing pot on U.S. soil?
Well, get angry -- it's happening.
This is just one more ugly manifestation of our porous borders allowing potential terrorists, gang members and thugs virtually unfettered access to our country. Mexico's pot growers are a new brand of criminal for law-enforcement authorities to contend with.
As if it's not awful enough that illegal aliens are growing bounteous fields of unlawful marijuana in our nation, they're doing it in the most magnificent wilderness areas of the U.S. -- and polluting our national forests and parks to a dangerously sickening degree. The residue of toxic chemicals necessary to grow the pot is what's doing the environmental damage, says the U.S. Forest Service.
California's 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest is the hardest hit, with up to 700 grow sites found in the past two years. Sites have also been found on federal wilderness lands in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. The cartels, which are reportedly protected by armed thugs, some of whom may be veterans or active members of Mexico's armed forces, use rat poison and weed and bug sprays that are banned in the U.S. to kill deer, bears and other wildlife that endanger their pot plants. U.S. taxpayers spend millions every year to find and uproot the pot-growing operations, but no money is budgeted to clean up the polluted mess.
There's been a move in Congress to provide clean-up funds, which is all well and good. But it makes more sense to clean out the cartels and their thug protectors before any mess is made.
What's our military for, if not to repel aggressors?
Then we should seal off the borders, also using the military if necessary. We wish we could say this kind of action was in the works, but we can't. It won't happen until the American people get angry enough to demand it. If Mexican pot cartels polluting our national parks and killing our wildlife doesn't get us angry enough, then what will?
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Yeah,huge problem!Legalize it stupid.War on drugs?How about war on tobacco and other more dangerous legal drugs?What hypocrites!!
Yes, productivity in the US is WAY TOO HIGH! Legalize pot and increase our amotivation!
Yeah let's become isolationists again...how'd that work out before FDR, Wilson? Oh yeah let's just bus our troops back into the great outdoors so they can bust some vegetation that helps clean the air and if legal could become the number one paper substitute and save millions of trees.... but let's just keep wasting billions on a trillion dollar industry we made into an empire by continuing the policy of making pot smoking a crime....what costs more? The housing of pot smokers incarcerated or taking the criminal element out of it altogether? Keep holding that Reagan party line....JUST SAY NO to unfair pot laws...
If pot is illegal then tobacco should be a death penalty offense. Ooops I forgot is already is. hee,hee,hee.
Hey, who'll take care of our yards if we don't let them grow their pot? Come on, we need the roofers. Pot's okay. They're just hard working Democrat voters trying to pick up a little extra spending money. Don't be so hard on the Mexicans, they're saving the American economy.
The city should give free pot to the Cherry Tree neighborhood to calm their angst. All the coke and meth has them all hopped up so a little apathy would be good. I know they are apathetic about working but we need to culture this mentality towards other subjects too.
Since they're destroying national parks, it sounds like they're Republican voters. PT: How about trying to post something intelligent for a change instead of the the same tired old cr*p?
Maybe we can talk local mexican growers to offer free pot to Cherry Tree-ya know give back to the area. We can call it a medical marijuana treatment program. Nah, just kiddin. I think this article is just sour grapes. The local growers don't like the competition and they just want to get rid of the mexican growers.
Probably Cain and his ilk with their "tree" farms-wink, wink. hee,hee,hee.
Republicans are naturally "stoned" so they wouldn't get off anyways. I think it is the Dem mind that seeks the altered state of stonedom-trying to escape Reps. It is these rare times of Dem stonedom that both are so funked up they can actually communicate with each other. Fascinatin stuff-like watch the Geico gecko.
Well I tried. Funny stuff. I should be a comedian. I could use a partner-anyone interested. We could be Biz and Bong!
Most people are on drugs prescribed to them for depression, anxiety, and other mental issues. The war on drugs is a war of oppression against the poor. I can call my Dr. and get Valiums. The insurance even buys the pills. Why can't anyone with the cash go buy the drugs they want? Tobacco alone kills hundreds of thousands a year. Alcohol kills thousands of INNOCENT people a year in car crashes. The war on drugs is hypocrisy in it's most identifiable form.
Good try Biz, I try once in a while, but humor does not seem to be appreciated on here. Hate and name calling seem to be the "thing". BTW, I think pot should be legal. The tax on that alone might pay for the new baseball stadium that RC seems to desparately need.
The savings realized by ending the drug war, when combined with the revenues raised by taxing legalized drugs, would be massive. Lower crime rates, remove income from organized crime, quit persecuting black males who comprise over 75% of those incarcerated for drug crimes.
BTW, Under a legalized drug law, anyone dealing in controlled substances without a license would be subject to minimum 30 yrs, straight time. Legalize use, keep illegal distribution laws. Can you imagine: companies similar to RJReynolds or Anheiser Busch, only the new companies would be producing legal drugs? The exporting revenue would be huge!
right wing radicals. wow!!
Parents rush to get their kids hooked on drugs for ADD, ADDHD,ICANTCONTROLTHISLITTLEHEATHEN at an early age. Then we're supposed to teach them drugs are bad? "No Johnny, the drugs your parents can't afford are good, but the ones they can afford are illegal". Does anyone not see the hypocrisy?
Should be inhaled...
Yes Jake, let's stop the logging. All those rural loggers can just find another job.
Legalize it.
Most of those "rural" loggers(like there are urban loggers) have already lost their jobs due to the housing industry collapse
fd, I am not an expert, no. Just trying to point out that for every action there is a reaction. If you know for a fact that it is being done irresponsibly, then I will yield to your knowledge of the situation.
God creates cannabis. Man makes booze, meth, heroin, xanax, steroids, ... etc. Who do you trust?
Cannabinoid research has been a boom to the pharmaceutical companies as many new drugs emerging are a product of that research. The endocannabinoid system is widespread throughout the body in brain, kidney, immune system, etc. THC just mimics a natural product of the body which binds to the cannabinoid receptors. Cannabis has medicinal use, makes the best rope known to man, the oil has hundreds of uses as food, fuel, etc. It is shame that lies and myth has made this product illegal.
I always get a laugh when I heare people crying that the gov't should do more to protect our borders. The US gov't doesn't care about it's citizens.
Pofwe: I'm finally starting to like you!LOL
They can't legalize pot, because the medical community can't come up with a way to justify its use for people who suffer no problems. They also haven't been able to create a "breathilyzer" test for THC. They have enough Rants about old people and women drivers. Could you imagine the stoned driver. Everyone going 25 mph. Nothing would get done, and who would care? Break times at work would last 4 hours, and the snack machines would have to be stocked after every break.
Workplaces can still declare themselves drug free. just because it's legal doesn't mean you can use it where it's prohibited: just like tobacco and alcohol.
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