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Cannabis Lovers Embrace Stupidity
Weekend Libertarian ^ | May 6, 2011 | B.P. Terpstra

Posted on 05/06/2011 5:46:28 PM PDT by AustralianConservative

“He might look rather pleased with himself in this picture - but it's likely he regrets posing for this snap now,” reports the Mail Online, UK. “For when police raided the home of drug dealer Darren Ellis, 35, they found this photograph of him holding up his stash of cannabis.”

Also, in stupidity-related news, the Herald Sun, Australia, reports two “women are due in court today on cannabis possession charges after one of them repeatedly set off a metal detector at an airport in New Zealand, allegedly leading to the discovery of foil-wrapped cannabis in her bra.”

Talk about stupid: “The woman, 52, had 50g of the drug in 28 individually wrapped packages in her underwear, police told The Southland Times.”

Not to be outdone, however, one father-of-three “growing cannabis worth almost £9,000 in his attic, had bought the equipment with a £750 crisis loan meant for furniture, a court heard.” The UK’s Lancashire Telegraph reports, “Terence Graham, 30, who is on benefits, had 12 plants and a hydroponic system in the loft space when police raided his home in New Market Street, Colne, last September.”

Yet, cannabis lovers, I’m told, aren’t stupid. They’re just misunderstood.

Woodstock Alzheimer’s

The hard medical research informs us that brain issues and cannabis love to walk hand in hand, unfortunately.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brain; cannabis; crime; oxford
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To: blueunicorn6
Every drug dealer and user should be made to carry around the head of a decapitated Mexican for a year. Then, after a few years, when they quit having the night screams, they’ll better understand the idea of cause and effect.

I'd say that every Harry Anslinger wannabe should do the same and get the cause and effect firmly implanted in their mind. Then they should ask themselves how many decapitations have occurred over the legal tomato trafficking business.

41 posted on 05/06/2011 7:30:19 PM PDT by ninonitti
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To: TaxPayer2000

Thousands of years of being an alcohol based culture worked out pretty well for western civilization, thousands of years of being cannabis based has made the cannabis based world, (such as the Arabs) seem weird, grubby and off a degree, just like pot heads that we all know.

Often times you can see a kid instantly take on the way of the cannabis brain worm when he starts using pot, like a pod person, he becomes different from the normal as he melds into the matching personality of the others that use pot.


42 posted on 05/06/2011 7:38:47 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: A CA Guy
PTSD Nightmare Cure by VietnamVet1968

MARIJUANA AND PAIN AND SPASM FROM A SPINAL INJURY

Other Stories.

As far as recreational use goes it's just another vice for most people. I tolerate cannabis smokers easier then I do a drunk. Especially a stupid drunk. I wish they had a booze pre-employment test for chronic drunks...Maybe I'd quit hiring so many.

Do you, perhaps, get drunk often?

43 posted on 05/06/2011 7:56:05 PM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: A CA Guy
You drug war zealots are not only out of your damn minds, you're useful idiots for Big Government. Drugs are bad!!!! Give us as much power as you possibly can and we'll protect everybody from drugs!!! Never mind about those blatant infringements on the Constitution, and pay no attention to the number of dead innocents from our no-knock raids. We didn't know we had the wrong address when we tossed the flash-bang in.

How is that escalating drug war working out for us? Are we safer from the scourge of drugs now that government has such power? If you answer "yes", then you haven't been paying attention. How did our country survive for one hundred and fifty years or so before Big Daddy Government made drugs illegal and started protecting us from ourselves?

Some of you guys need some serious schooling on the nature of cause and effect. Oh, and on the US Constitution.
44 posted on 05/06/2011 8:16:34 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Mariner

Jamaica fine island for dat, mon!;)


45 posted on 05/06/2011 10:10:04 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: fr_freak

“Some of you guys need some serious schooling on the nature of cause and effect. Oh, and on the US Constitution.”

Oh so that’s why leftwing socialist Europeans and liberal Californians embrace the “US Constitution.”

First, of all this is an international issue.

Second of all, and in any case, where in the US Constitution does it say taxpayers must fund potheads addicted to welfare?

Third of all, are you aware how much of a tax burden drug addicts are? Give them a moral lesson, not some good cop who is keeping scum off our roads.


46 posted on 05/06/2011 10:17:13 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: KDD

Wow the old two wrongs make a right argument. Now that’s stupid.


47 posted on 05/06/2011 10:18:47 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: AustralianConservative
First, of all this is an international issue.

Second of all, and in any case, where in the US Constitution does it say taxpayers must fund potheads addicted to welfare?


Hey, guess what. We in the United States of America are quite content to let other countries handle their issues as they see fit. In our country, however, we have a set of fixed laws and a Constitution which limits the power of our federal government. I know a lot of foreigners don't understand that concept and think that it is just fine and dandy for their big government to ask its subjects to bend over for every whim and fancy that crosses their bureaucratic minds, but Americans, the real ones, don't take kindly to a bunch of know-nothing politicians telling them how to run their own lives. So, I'll be damned if I care that you think this is an "international issue" that entitles every ignorant yahoo in the world to dictate domestic policy to the US. Ruin your own country, bub.

Quite frankly, you reflect poorly on Australia.
48 posted on 05/07/2011 1:40:57 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Excuse me: With have American drug addicts acting up here. You would of course deny the international implications just as you deny the medical evidence. Time to let go of Woodstock dude.


49 posted on 05/07/2011 1:51:56 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: Echo4C
The best part about potheads is that they think everyone is a pothead.

Yes, and all their conversations eventually come back to babbling about weed and how it's better than alcohol. I have noticed that potheads are expecially bad at mathematics. Regular weed smoking must fry the brain cells that do computations with numbers and symbols and such. Potheads are also dangerous. They will smoke pot while abroad in countries that have strict penalties for drugs (like Korea)... and claim they "aint hurtin nobody it's jest a bit of herb". If they get caught, though, all their non-pothead friends would get arrested, interrogated and probably deported... by why should the fate of friends worry a pothead?

50 posted on 05/07/2011 2:16:03 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: AustralianConservative
The hysterics and histronics spit out by drug warriors sound almost like satire these days. Florida will probably legalize medical cannabis this year joining 36 other States that have already done so. Bet that just chaps your a** doesn't it.


51 posted on 05/07/2011 4:40:51 AM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: A CA Guy
“Death penalty for drug dealers and confiscate all wealth associated with users.”

Cops already carry a “throw down” gun for people they shoot that are unarmed - maybe after you have your way they will carry a “throw down” joint.

“Nice place - it would sell well at auction - and supply us a good X-mas bonus - throw down the joint!”

52 posted on 05/07/2011 4:45:21 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: AustralianConservative
Wow the old two wrongs make a right argument. Now that’s stupid.

I'll tell you what is stupid...The same Supreme Court reasoning that gave the government the ability to persecute cannabis users also gave the government the power to legalize abortion. It is the same law that attempts to regulate our right to keep and bear arms. Since you are not from this country I can understand that you do not know our Constitution or anything at all about about the bastardization of the Commerce Clause. American have traded their freedom for a little pottage. Such ignorance on the part of some self proclaimed "conservatives" is simply disgusting.

53 posted on 05/07/2011 5:26:18 AM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: KDD
National Review

Weed Whackers
The anti-marijuana forces, and why they're wrong

54 posted on 05/07/2011 5:40:54 AM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: KDD

Again, why are you using the two wrongs make a right argument? Actually, I have studied the U.S. Constitution, and brain imaging technology applies to all humans.

Also millions of Americans agree with me, judging by voting records.

Where is it written that potheads can drive and kill families? Or that potheads have a right to social security payments? I must have missed that in the Constitution.


55 posted on 05/07/2011 6:58:18 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: KDD

How surprising: A pro-drug enabler using toys to make a point. I prefer brain imaging technology.

By the way, even the Netherlands is reversing back after its failed drug experiments. History isn’t on your side.


56 posted on 05/07/2011 7:01:57 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: A CA Guy
Death penalty for drug dealers and confiscate all wealth associated with users.

What about the families, too? Shouldn't we be killing them and bulldozing the house? Shouldn't we be killing the dogs and children of people who lived next door to them, too? NO PUNISHMENT IS TOO SEVERE!

57 posted on 05/07/2011 7:04:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: A CA Guy
These lost liters need to be stopped.

Are you high? Yer high right now, aren't you?

58 posted on 05/07/2011 7:09:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: A CA Guy
There is a pass ti users and we are losing genrations of especially young boys.

People who are high cannot spell, and their grammar is awful. Are you high?

59 posted on 05/07/2011 7:11:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: AustralianConservative

Are you high? You sound high.


60 posted on 05/07/2011 7:12:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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