Ok So I was wrong about these bills being finished. When the sub-committee ‘tabled’ the bill, it just means that the sub-committee wasn’t going to vote on it. So the bills now go back to the full house for a vote. Now is the time to be emailing your delegates. You can get all the email addresses for the Courts of Justice on my previous post here. Email them, call them, and show up to their office. If you’re tired of sneaking around, now’s your time to speak up about it. Without your delegates knowing what you want, how can you complain when you don’t get what you want?
So the subcommittee on crime is meeting. I’ve tried to find a feed on it without any luck. As far as I know they started at 3pm EST. And Delegate Morgan had quite a few bills ahead of him. Once I know something, I’ll let you know.
Holy crap! 5.3m plants were destroyed @ a value of $2,000, just in California. California is at rock bottom with their economy, the Govenor of the state calls for ‘debate’ yet no one still does anything.
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The newcomers to the business are typically restricting their practices to fields of around 80 plants – that’s tiny compared to the mega cultivation seen in California where 5.3m plants were destroyed last year up from 4.9m in 2007. But at around $2,000 a plant, that still provides a good living in Appalachia.
By the way I did the math, and it’s over 10b. That’s huge! and that was in 2007. Imagine what it is now. All that money going to waste into a system that’s failing us, and killing us slowly everyday. As drug usage goes up, so will the need for funds to combat it. SOMETHING ILLEGAL CANNOT BE CONTROLLED.
Now the only thing I dont like about the Colbert Show is that whenever I see something on it, Colbert jokes it, which I know it’s his thing, and I love him for it! Infact I loved how he approached the idea of marijuana in his questioning, does he smoke? Will we ever know? Interesting idea, celebrities that are Ok with marijuana, stay tuned.
I read this article, and I usually read the comments. Another anti-drug person blasts “potheads” and tells us to get jobs. Little does that close-minded person know, there’s millions of us. People he/she hasn’t thought about. Even if that post was a joke, dont you feel that 70 billion dollars is a big expense we have to pay as taxpayers?
I’ve been saying this stuff for years! The government has tested it, they aren’t stupid, it all boils down to money. Greedy & Crooked public officials make too much money off the drug war now, as long as it’s profitable for them, they will keep on doing it, and prohibition will continue to yank away our constitutional rights.
This man, Kevin Drum, doesn’t or hasn’t ever smoked, he looked at the facts, and there you have it. Kevin touches on many of the main points in legalization.
At one point Sen. Mccain asks the ex-police officer if he would legalize Meth, he responded with something to the effect of “I think we should give people help for drugs, not pay to lock them up. ” We spend over $20,000 a year on one prisoner.
