Posted on 03/08/2009 6:15:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The last time I went to Mexico was with Ed Gillet round about 1995.
I’d enjoyed a dozen or so excursions with him, but the writing was on the wall when we were stopped at a government road block, and upon search the owner of one of the other vehicles in the convoy had 9mm ammunition in his glove compartment.
With our sea-kayaks on-board, It wasn’t hard to tell who was together.
Every one in the group got extorted - “How much money do you have”?
Ed was the guy that paddled a sea-kayak from Monterey to Hawaii back in ‘87; Huevos as big as ostrich eggs, but even he stopped going down there a couple of years later.
A Republic is a system of government, characterized by the rule of law - and when the Law stops ruling, the Republic no longer effectively exists.
Observe Wall Street.
Where’s LEO?
The blame is on us.
What is this crap about providing an original of one’s birth certificate?
So you can prove you’re a “natural-born person”
I’m pretty sure you go directly to jail if you bring a gun into Mexico.
If they had required it on my original permit application, it would be a different story. I suspect that some dweeb has taken this action, maybe without legislative support. I am planning to go in with the renewal forms and ask them to show me the statute empowering them to require it.
You are so right, not to mention the STINK of marijuana. We drove up to Julian recently and practically gagged waiting in line for Mom's apple pie ~ the stink was everywhere.
Anyone wanting to legalize drugs has got to be a pothead (or worse) themselves. It's insane.
People on just marijuana would be robbing and killing for money for drugs? What? I have worked in the criminal justice system for many years. I have worked as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. I have never seen a case where someone just on marijuana robbed and killed to get money to buy more pot. That's just preposterous. Some people will steal for anything. They'll steal cigarettes, steal to buy booze, and they'll steal to buy pot. But those who would do that are just thieves, a tiny minority. Most all the crime marijuana causes is related to the fact it is illegal. It's just not a drug that leads to a lot of crime.
People will sell their bodies for drugs like meth or cocaine or heroin. Many will steal to get those drugs, constantly. The addiction to them are so powerful and overwhelming people become absolutely desperate to get more.
On on the whole gateway drug thing, the only thing that makes pot anymore of a gateway drug than booze and tobacco is the fact that it is illegal and all those other illegal drugs come through the same channels as pot. We should legalize pot and have it sold through licensed shops that would be no more likely to sell cocaine, meth or heroin than your average liquor store. The Mexican cartels would lose out on the loin's share of their income and it would actually be harder for them to move their other drugs because so much of that stuff is pushed right down through the same suppliers who sell pot. Pot sellers often sell other drugs, drugs that in many cases come from the same people up the distribution line, especvially when we are talking about Mexican pot supplied by Mexican drug trafficking organizations because those guys are supplying most of the meth and heroin and cocaine that is consumed in this country along with something like half the pot that is consumed here. They smuggle many thousands of tons of pot in every year and on top of that they piggy back in several hundred tons (almost the entire amount consumed here) of those other drugs. Legalizing pot and having it be sold through licensed shops would dramatically reduce pot smokers exposure to these other drugs and make it harder for the cartels to reach end consumers with these drugs. That's what we need to do.
Excuse me, but it sounds like you are a pot smoker.
One who does not smoke pot would never advocate what you propose.
“Excuse me, but it sounds like you are a pot smoker.
One who does not smoke pot would never advocate what you propose.”
Bull. There are plenty of us who don’t smoke pot who see that we are causing more harm than good trying in vain to keep up the ban. You know, if you look at recent polls on attitudes about marijuana legalization you would see that now over 40% of American adults support regulating marijuana similar to alcohol. These aren’t all pot smokers. Not nearly that many smoke pot.
Sorry, but I don’t believe for a minute that non pot smokers favor legalizing the drug.
Druggies lie. Genuine ex-druggies do NOT favor making it more available.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Here is a link to results from a Rasmussen poll done in February where 40% were for legalizing marijuana, 46% were against, and the rest were undecided: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/february_2009/40_say_marijuana_should_be_legalized
I can't find a link to the January 2008 CBS/New York Times poll that had 41% for legalization and 52% against, but here is an article that talks about it: http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2009/3/2/support-legalization-marijuana-increases/
A recent Zogby poll had 58% of the people in your neck of the woods, the West Coast, supporting legalization. Nationwide, according to that poll, 44% supported legalization while 52% opposed it. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1510744/to_legalize_and_tax_marijuana.html?cat=17
http://www.canorml.org/news/zogby2.html
I am not a liar. I am not a druggie. I am one of the growing number of people who believes that we are causing a lot more harm than good keeping marijuana illegal. I can understand why you would be opposed to legalizing marijuana. I don't mind when people disagree with me. I do not, however, like be called a druggie or a liar.
I was with the County Attys in San Diego for many yrs. until I ret.
I have a clue about the legal system
Good for you.
Your past postings betray your drug history.
So what is your point?
Go away and never post to me again, lady. I have no time for people like you.
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