Marijuana has many useful uses. I have fibromyalgia pain in this arm, and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana
He's obviously mistaken. That substance has no medicinal use and its death toll every year of ZERO makes it highly dangerous unlike caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and sugar. Fucking seriously, I saw a PSA on TV that had preschoolers playing around with flavoured blunt wrappers, ciggies, etc., to make the point about how companies target young children with their chemical products. Have the fucktards that produced that self-righteous strawman of a commercial ever set one foot in a liquor store?
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Nixon stopped short of granting clemency, which would have seen Mizanskey freed directly. In a statement Friday, he said: 'my action provides Jeff Mizanskey with the opportunity to demonstrate that he deserves parole'.
Go fuck yourself, Jay. The initial charges were fucking bullshit. God forbid people get drugs besides nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
41 years ago, Lucifer whispered into Nixon's ear, and like Dick did every time, he listened. Over one TRILLION dollars and over half a million bullshit incarcerations later, we're still at it because it seems everyone in DC skipped the 1920s chapter of American history in high school.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Heroin-related deaths quadruple in the past decade, and I know at least one of them.
"Everything we see points to more accessible, less-expensive heroin all over the country," Frieden said of the joint report by the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which analyzed national survey data on drug use from 2002 to 2013.
The report found that nearly all people (96 percent) who use heroin also use multiple other substances, and that the strongest risk factor for heroin abuse is prescription opiate abuse.
What a resounding success this initiative has been. Certainly warrants pumping billions of wasted dollars into it which might otherwise be used catching the real asshole drug dealers, dudes like this prick. However, since he pushes product out of a corner office instead of a street corner, it took way, way longer to get to him.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Heroin has killed more people in Jersey than car accidents.
According to data from the state health department, the heroin-related death rate in the Garden State is now higher than suicide, homicide, car accidents, AIDS and is on par with cirrhosis of the liver.
Surely we just need to pump more money into this failing war on drugs.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Mexico maybe ready to prove its feds are 10,000 times smarter than ours, meaning roughly 100 IQ points. Unfortunately, there are some lobotomized individuals trying to point out how this won't work.
"I don't think there's any sense that if we take marijuana away from them, that will incentivize them to move into other areas," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "I think they're already incentivized to move into as many areas as they can."
That's right, Ethan. Because we all remember how organized crime kept bootlegging well into the '40s. Fucking tool.
"I see no reason for (the cartels) to continue to have marijuana as a significant percentage of their business once large-scale legalization is achieved," said Alison Holcomb, one of the architects of marijuana legislation in Washington state.
Of course not. Because the profit margin on legal weed is nowhere close to what it is on illegal coke, meth, smack, acid, designers, ad nauseum. That's looking past the real money -- racketeering, extortion, prostitution, large scale robberies, and such.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Wednesday's landmark Supreme Court ruling would allow four people to grow and consume the plant for recreational use in a country ravaged by a decade of drug violence, but any nationwide legalization of marijuana is likely years away.
And people bitched about the Ohio law limiting it to 10 farms.
(Yes, I assume that's a typo)
At any rate, legalization is the way to go. I would expect cartel violence to spike, as the same cartels would be competing for smaller markets, but the cartels to diminish somewhat.
My (20 year old) memory is that pot wasn't exactly expensive to begin with. I bought half a pound for $20 once.
It still depends on how it is legalized. Too restrictive or taxes too high and there will still be a black market, just as there is for cigarettes. The more important difference is it would severely curtail the destructive War on Durgs, which is he real reason to do it.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act, introduced Wednesday, is modeled after a bill first proposed by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) in 2013, which was reintroduced this year as the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act.
That implies we regulate alcohol intelligently, which is not something I'm prepared to say. That's also excessive because if anything it should be less regulated because it's not as dangerous.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Waseso said that crocodiles would be better at preventing drug traffickers from escaping prison as they could not be bribed -- unlike human guards.
That's the sort of idea you can only come up with while high.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Waseso said that crocodiles would be better at preventing drug traffickers from escaping prison as they could not be bribed -- unlike human guards.
That's the sort of idea you can only come up with while high.
Doing some stuff in Spain once I asked what a certain fenced off area was... the dude I was with said that was their high security prison. Apparently it was all underground and if the inmates rioted, they would be flooded and drowned.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
That's more of a nuclear option. You aren't half drowning them every day to maintain order.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Mexico thinking about easing up on bud enforcement.
just as mafia groups and bootleggers gave up on illicit moonshine after Prohibition ended in the United States, Mexico's drug gangs would have little interest in a legal marijuana market, especially if it lured in reputable pharmaceutical and tech firms.
"I am not so optimistic to think that a cannabis business in Mexico would not encounter opposition or violence from the cartels. However, their profit margins are being eroded daily, monthly and yearly by the continued expansion of medical and recreational marijuana programs in more and more U.S. states."
Except for fucking retard states like Iowa and Oklahoma. How badly do cartels want to maintain a monopoly on chems and therefore keep them illegal?
However, even Mexico's established medical industry can operate under constraints.
Mikel Arriola, the head of health regulator Cofepris, said until last year, Mexican doctors only wrote a few dozen morphine prescriptions a month as their home addresses appeared on them and they feared their access to the drug may attract criminal attention. "They were scared."
Doctors don't even want access to shit lest the baleful eye of the underworld settle upon them.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
55 years ago today, a small number of assholes fucked over the rest of the world with an international treaty. Decades and untold hundreds billions of dollars later, negative progress has been made. This also laid the groundwork for Dick Nixon to declare war on drugs, though I'm sure he was looking out for the best interests of <s>the country</s> his administration.
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
— John Ehrlichman, Nixon White House Domestic Affairs Advisor, on the War on drugs in a Harper's Magazine interview in 1994
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."