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[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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these guys were distributing, likely to the school she was elementary school teacher of.... so hurting no one? nah.

Who gets hurt by pot? How many people die from pot each year?

 

[jzahner1]

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about them staying out and contributing to society is the best option. Just administer random drug test, police visits and the such for the rest of their lives. We spend so much money every year to keep the big bad weed smokers in jail, when really they need to be out there working and paying taxes, with most of their freedoms taken away. Ly ike I wouldn't allow them to drink beer, step on school campuses, 40 hours mandatory community service each month for 30 years.<div>
</div><div>If they miss the community service without prior approval by the sheriff, then they spend that time in custody until they make up the time.</div><div>
</div><div>The money we save on them not being in jail will pay for the extra sheriff staff needed to manage these losers.</div><div>
</div><div>I was partly kidding about killing them on the second strike, but I bet people would take notice to the punishment.</div>

 

[Johnson85]

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2 presumably otherwise standup members of the community, with jobs, paying taxes, go to jail and live off our tax dollars for the rest of their lives, along with ruining the lives of their family.

Seems like a no brainer: pot laws are retarded. I personally can't stand potheads, but my god, they're only hurting themselves.

.... but that's a crapload of pot to buy just for their own use. i know a pot head (actually 3 of them), they have "breakfast"... "snack after lunch".... 4:20 break.... and one after dinner. they wouldn't go through that much.

these guys were distributing, likely to the school she was elementary school teacher of.... so hurting no one? nah.

3rd and 4th graders using all their disposable income to buy some drugs?<div>
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[Johnson85]

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And don't use the analogy of speeding ... it's not the same thing. It's more comparable to prohibition laws.

Oh, well I feel much better now. I was worried we were doing something 17ing stupid for a second there.

 

[jamdawg96]

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1. That's way too much weed to own for "medicinal" purposes. That said, I'd rather fund this guy's pockets than the murdering drug lords south of the border who make billions of dollars off of Americans each year.<div><div>
</div><div>2. Laws against marijuana are, to say the least, extreme. Is this guy (even as a repeat offender) worse than drunk drivers? Finance pirates? Armed robbers? Child molesters? I doubt it, but you'd be surprised at sentence lengths for some pot dealers compared to those who commit more threatening offenses.</div><div>
</div><div>3. Even though I think the laws are illogical, logic suggests he should have moved elsewhere if it meant that much to him.</div><div><div>
</div><div>4. While smoking isn't healthy, it's much safer than most drugs, including alcohol... the numbers don't lie. But like anything we put in our bodies (pills, booze, food) it can be abused and deteriorate the overall productivity of one's life. Like most problems we have in the world today (pregnancy, drugs, obesity) education/awareness is what we should focus on.</div><div>
</div><div>5. As far as personal use goes, I liken it to a bourbon on the rocks after a hard day's work. Or a sixer of beer on a Saturday. Just something to take the edge off (with no risk of a hangover). It's helped my creative drive when used in moderation. It's turned me into a total bum when used too much.</div><div>
</div><div>6. To make it relevant to the original post: someone needs to photoshop his "garden" behind them.</div> </div> </div>

 

[thf24]

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Marijuana laws are modern day prohibition. They take something that's in demand and relatively harmless in moderation (much less so than alcohol) and illegalize it, leading to the creation of a violent criminal element to produce and distribute it. I won't argue that there aren't sometimes negative consequences for individuals who abuse it (just like alcohol), but I'll argue any day that society as a whole would be better off if it were legal.

 

[BCash]

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Or are you regurgitating propaganda ******** that's been shoved down everyones throats. Pot doesn't lead to using hard drugs, human nature does. I smoke pot regularly, yet I've never moved on to harder drugs and have never really considered it. Why? Because I don't want to. Smoking cigarettes leads to...guess what? DEATH. CANCER. But I would bet you'd be pissed about liberal big government telling people they can't smoke cigarettes.

And since when do we outlaw something which LITERALLY NO ONE ON PLANET EARTH has been verified to die from its usage, because it MIGHT lead you to try something which MIGHT kill you. Why don't we outlaw cars since driving them leads to thousands of deaths each year? Or with your (the governments) line of thinking, let's outlaw BJs becaus they might make you want to have intercourse, which might give you an STD that could kill you?

Apologies for the rant.

 

[RocketCityDawg]

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Somebody close to them, perhaps?

Were they using black lights or fluorescents to stimulate plant growth inside, perhaps hydroponics?

Someone I once knew grew some amazingly large plants inside his apartment about 40 years ago.
But not 150 of them. That's dealing, dude.

 

[BlankStare]

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<div>....And here i thought that "FreeDawg" referred to a hipster-doofus sense of "enlightenment" that is often exhibited by young, naive college kids who take pot WAY too seriously.</div><div>
</div><div>So, did you get busted in Stark or what?</div>

 

[elmsurfer1]

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make billions of dollars and kill thousands every year. Alcohol lead to harder drugs, worse judgement and death. Pot has never killed a soul.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

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...the Government wants pliable, easily manipulated people who'll do whatever the government dictates. The last thing Big-Government types want is a population that works hard and thinks for themselves.

The legalization and availability of Pot is similar to why the old Soviet Union made vodka cheap and available- to anethesize the public to their bleak, desolate lives.

Marijuana, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

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...members of the community.

 

[jamdawg96]

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The drugs the government would use to easily manipulate society are already legally for sale. And they're making **** loads of cash from it. It's called prescription pills.<div>
</div><div>Pot is the drug of choice for rebels. Not the ones in Oxford, who prefer cocaine, the ones who protest all over the country and ****. Rebels, hippies, progressives. People who realize it's utterly stupid that our government would rather incarcerate millions of non-violent offenders while supporting the Mexican drug lords instead of castrating real criminals and regulating a cash crop more useful than tobacco.</div>

 

[futaba.79]

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Chris McNeil. As I recall, he's no different than a 9/11 terrorist in your eyes.

 

[1msucub]

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Aside from the incredible insight offered offered by Hump, I appreciate it. As I said in the original post, I'm not preaching.....just curious. The main reason I was never interested was simply fear of punishment and my belief that it's wrong, a point I didn't feel was necessary to make in the original post. I've just never really been around it, and was just interested in your answers.
Village, you make a good point, sarcastic or not. My answer is that sex between spouses isn't illegal, I suppose....... I do NOT want to turn this into a religious thread......was honestly just curious, that's all.

Edited to add: I failed the reply tutorial. Idiot.

 

[ckDOG]

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Largely driven off of the fact that we spend so much money incarcerating so many non-violent criminals for cannabis-related crimes.

I'd be more worried about the drugs big pharma shoves down American's throats then something that grows in dirt.

 

[lanceharbor7]

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sanity can be restored to drug laws. Especially in an *** backwards state like Mississippi.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

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....they want people who either don't care whatsoever, or are sooo scared of government that they think they're omniscient. Notice there's no big push to legalize cocaine, meth, or any other drugs that are considered "uppers" (I include tobacco in this group because nicotine is an "upper").<div id="isChromeWebToolbarDiv" style="display:none"></div>

 

[OneParticularHarbor]

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<span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">I do not and have never</span> smoked, <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">drank</span>, injected, inhaled anything along the line of drugs or <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">alcohol</span> of any type.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

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That argument doesnt make the least bit of logical sense. You do realize that pot is currently being kept illegal by the government, and the legalization push is being made by the most anti big gov groups, right?

 

[jakldawg]

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just based on the piles of money that gets thrown their way. I get the impression she's opposed to legalization.<div><span> <span id="temp-0"> </span> </span><span> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kFgrB2Wmh5s?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowScriptAccess="never" ></embed> </span>
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[1msucub]

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<span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">I do not and have never</span> smoked, <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">drank</span>, injected, inhaled anything along the line of drugs or <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">alcohol</span> of any type.

Nice, Harbor. Gotta admit I laughed.

 

[o_LandDawg]

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could be his twin in that pic

 

[SixtonPackerish]

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Is hydroponic marijuana more potent than soil grown? What makes this four pounds so expensive? Or has pot gone up that much in price?<div>
</div><div>Natchez arrest</div>

 

[ckDOG]

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Why pot? If the government wanted some sort of chemically induced populace, they'd have done it already via legal means: prescriptions or chemicals in our water and food supplies. Virtually nothing we put in our bodies gets there before going through some government regulated entity. If they want hazed out lemmings, they don't need cannabis to do it.

If the government pushes for legalization, it's because it's harm to humans is in the same ballpark as alcohol/tobacco, would provide a new revenue stream (gotta fund the ridiculous spending!), and clear out a ton of space in our overcrowded/underfunded prison system.

 

[olemissbydamn]

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Hydro isn't necessarily more potent. Potency is determined by the strain and the growing conditions.

Advantages to hydro:
Better growth rate
Faster harvest
Easier to stabilize PH
Less maintenance
No pest or weeds in growing medium
More control over growing medium
Don't have to be repotted due to growing root system
Less water to grow

That $55,000 quoted in the article is an example of cops lying to sensationalize the story.

 

[SixtonPackerish]

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Didn't think it was that much an ounce now or very few would be able to afford it. Thanks.

 

[sleepy dawg]

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He was around 30 years old, and I think she was around 14. He was found guilty, and spent around 2 years in jail...

Another guy that I graduated highschool with was convicted for 2 counts of manslaughter and for killing 2 people while driving intoxicated. He got 20 years per person.... It just doesn't add up.

 

[DAWG61]

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is infinitely worse than Marijuana. Look up the % of violent crimes committed when the perpetrator is under the influence of alcohol. It'll scare you. I don't smoke but I do think it should be made legal and sold by the government. The money should go to reducing our debt. How much money and jobs would this create for the USA? It would save taxpayers billions by not flooding our jails with weed offenders also and the money being spent on weed wouldn't go to drug traffickers. It would cycle back into the economy. Violent crimes committed during drug buys would be reduced as well. I'm really not sure at all why alcohol is allowed yet Marijuana isn't.

 

[EmoryBellard]

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A gateway to digging half a pizza out of the garbage at 2am and drenching it in ranch dressing.

In seriousness, I've had pot several times. I personally don't enjoy it (prefer booze), but no one will ever convince me pot is 1/10th the destructive force on our culture that alcohol is.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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Everyone who smokes pot gets scarred for life, whereas people eventually get over molestation or having a parent killed by a drunk driver.

 

[FlabLoser]

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A gateway to digging half a pizza out of the garbage at 2am and drenching it in ranch dressing.

In seriousness, I've had pot several times. I personally don't enjoy it (prefer booze), but no one will ever convince me pot is 1/10th the destructive force on our culture that alcohol is.

Booze is my gateway drug to food binging. I'd better never touch a J (never have).

 

[EmoryBellard]

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With bud, its more like "I HAVE TO HAVE _____ RIGHT 17ING NOW!!!11!!!" And then it's the BEST thing you've ever had.

 

[Mullenation]

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because it is classified as an illegal drug. It's a mental thing especially inadolescence. Doing one illegal substance(weed) and saying "Hey this is fun I like this" can lead to maybe trying out other "harder" illegal substances because they are technically classified the same. A decriminalization at the federal level would greatly reduce this stigma imo.. or at the very least remove it as a freakin schedule 1 substance (same as heroin, cocaine, and meth!)

 

[fishwater99]

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The USA can not and will not win the war on drugs. Marijuana is less harmful to you than alcohol, it's a fact.
The problem is that in MS it is illegal and the Mr. Monroe is an idiot to have that many plants growing in a neighborhood in Madison, MS.
Move to Colorado or California is you want to commercially grow the dank.
I still can't believe the denied him bond, that's just crazy. FYI..Don't get caught in Madison county with any drugs...
I am not advocating the use of marijuana or any other drugs, but we are ***-backwards here in MS.

 

[FreeDawg]

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please tell me you are not a FBI profiler because if you are America is 17ed. I did get a laugh though

 

[DerHntr]

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can you imagine how much better Stans would have been able to recruit?