Yeah. That's great. Oh, and also slavery, sex trafficking and chemicals harmful to humans and wildlife.
You potheads have much to be proud of.
Just be carefull you don't accidentally stray onto a marijuana grove. Because you won't stray back out.
Wait a minute. Why am I warning you? I ought to give you a map of all the groves here in Northern California and encourage you to visit them. Unannounced.
No. Forget the map. Just go for a drive here in the Yuba Foothills or up in Siskiyou County. If you come across a road that's been chained off, don't worry about it. Just go around it or get out your bolt cutters and open it back up.
Congrats again on your wonderful victory.
Just be carefull you don't accidentally stray onto a marijuana grove. Because you won't stray back out.
Funny, that doesn't happen with legal grows, only black market ones made possible by the very war on (some) drugs that you support.
Congrats again on your wonderful victory.
Almost forty years of a failed effort from your side. Over a plant that is less harmful than booze.
I have correlated rise in 18-30yos weed smoking with the loss/desire of cooking skills. And driving cars. And dulled, boring brains. It’d be different if society were realizing another renaissance out of the ‘freed’ minds, but we’re harvesting flabby, skilless bumps-on-logs couch potatoes.
I was going to say that that grtove there in the photo looks like up the road from us. There are a lot of grows around here in Butte County...ilegal grows I might add as the county does allow personal grows! Five acres and you can have a 5 foot by 10 foot plot. Reasonable for personal use. I always joke with the Mrs. that I am going to grow the Devil Weed....but never get around to it. Don’t know where to find the seeds!
No kidding. Durango, CO, used to be my favorite vacation spot. Ever since CO legalized drugs, it (along with the entire state) has become inundated with addicts, homeless, aggressive panhandlers......
They even go into motels/hotels and knock on room doors asking for a place to spend the night.
And these idiot stoners on FR think that's a good thing.
Sure. As long as some self-righteous mob wants to throw someone in prison for merely possessing something, go for it, say many so-called nanny-staters "minimal government conservatives". It is to laugh.
And of course, we must also have the ever-expanding Police State that necessarily goes with enforcement of Contraband Law.—asset forfeiture, search which lack probable cause, no-knock warrants, increased violence at both the street level and by militarized police, and in general widespread trampling of Unalienable rights.
Threatening someone with prison for possessing one of God's own creations? A plant? What a joke. And the petty Drug War fascists have the unmitigated gall to call that Liberty?
Prohibitionists were dead wrong when they criminalized alcohol—which is hands down the worst drug on the face of the earth—worse than all other drugs combined—and they remain dead wrong about the entire idea Contraband Law in general.
Actual crime exists when someone's rights are infringed upon via force, fraud, or negligence—not just because some nanny-state zealots decide that trampling the Constitution and basic tenets of Liberty would make imposing "law and order" more convenient.
Arbitrary Law is illegitimate on its face, and is the doorway to Tyranny. Once it's tolerated—by either side of the political spectrum—it becomes equally justifiable by the other side. That's why allowing it to flourish invariably results in increasing loss of Liberty for everyone.
Those who believe in Authoritarian shortcuts (whether well-intentioned or not) are forcing others to choose whose version of Tyranny is most palatable: Left wing flavor or Right wing flavor—as if those are the only choices.
No thanks. I'll take door number three, Monty: the animating contest of Freedom; I'll take actual Liberty—warts and all—with all of its annoyances, inconveniences, and challenges, instead of demonstrably failed and shortsighted policies of over a century Prohibitionist shortcuts, which have exacerbated the problems as opposed to solving them.
Education, rehabilitation, and compassion are the answers—not incarceration. That's right: the only thing worse than decriminalization is the Tyrannical situation that exists now. Not to mention the fact that decriminalization has the minor advantage of actually being Constitutional, and consistent with the timeless principles of American Liberty...
Wait a minute. Why am I warning you? I ought to give you a map of all the groves here in Northern California and encourage you to visit them. Unannounced.
Some folks apparently learn nothing from history. You could have said exactly the same thing about folks distilling liquor during the 20s. It wasn't a problem before prohibition, and it wasn't a problem after prohibition. I don't see the local Budweiser and Miller distributors shooting it out over territory these days. Must be the media suppressing it or something.
Once it's just another crop, what you are describing will be history, just like the gin-runners of the 20s. Pot should be completely legalized and sold just like tobacco and alcohol.