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.
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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.
via Americans grow cannabis to beat the recession | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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.
Stumbled across this interview with Bill Maher and Brad Pitt they talk about different things, but the thing that stands out the most is that Brad admitted to smoking marijuana, and rolling the most perfect joints that Bill Maher has ever seen, really great interview, Go Brad!
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This isn’t the original video I made this post with, but HBO of course claimed the last one as their property, and youtube took it down, so I did another search, and found it again 
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.
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A LEAP spokesman said “Nothing which is illegal can be controlled.” to the Billings Gazette. A very true statement.
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Al Capone profited heavily in the alcohol prohibition. By making something illegal, you’ll already have someone wanting to profit off of it. If you were to make Pepsi illegal, someone would be selling them, and tripling, or quadrupling the price. Thus creating a black market, thus leading to violence. Could you imagine being a victim of a drive-by shooting over some Pepsi? When the US government doesn’t know how to deal with a problem, they make a law, thus filling up our prison system with non-violent offenders. Which cost the American Taxpayers about $22,000 a year per inmate.
Full article is here: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_8b22bcd8-83b3-11de-97bb-001cc4c002e0.html
So interesting thing happened to me at the DMV a few days ago, I found out my license was expired, I didnt even realize it. So I go to DMV, get in line behind one of the local police officers in my area. He glanced at me, and nodded as to say hello. So we’re waiting in the long DMV like and started talking, I asked him how he felt about James Webb and wanting to go over our drug policy. He felt that its bad either way we go. For instance, alot of businesses, clinics, and such need that revenue to stay open. He feels if they legalize drugs that it would hurt us financially before it would help us. He also went on to say that he’s seen more hurt, and death from Alcohol, than all the other drugs combined. When will our goverment listen to it’s ‘law keepers’ drug policy is not working, we need to rethink our strategy. The fact of the matter is, there’s too much money to be made while drugs are illegal.
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.
Ok here it is, stumble it, digg it, facebook it, etc.. read up on this. The Sen. Barney Frank introduced this bill.
Congress Introduces HR 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act | CommonDreams.org.
Well there would be a raise in packaged twinkies for sure. This is where we all need to be in America. Check it out.
