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The Negatives of Marijuana by swamibu
Despite Seattle's herb-friendly reputation, there sure have been a lot of highly publicized marijuana arrests lately. Every time we refresh the local news sites it seems there is a new headline about an even larger scale bust. KIRO 7 has even started calling them "marijuana raids"--which is so Prohibition Era of them.
Apparently, the latest pot bust is even more exciting because the arrest came through a Crimestoppers citizen tip. According to KIRO's report on the arrest, two Lakewood brothers were arrested on Friday after police discovered "more than 200 marijuana plants, several pounds of marijuana ready to sell and a total of $256,000...61 firearms were found, including several assault rifles and a large number of hand guns."
The brothers—William and Guy Henry—remain in jail on charges of unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance and unlawful possession with intent to distribute.
When we read this, we thought, nothing about those 61 weapons in the charges? We know (unless it is for medicinal purposes) you can't legally have one pot plant in Washington--but can anyone have 61 guns, including assault rifles? 61 weapons is just three weapons short of being able to arm a US Army Platoon with two weapons each. But what they're worried about are the marijuana plants? Does that seem backwards to anyone else?
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Owning guns is not illegal. Oddly, it's protected by the Constitution. Too bad marijuana doesn't have the same status.
You're right about the constitution OddJob and I am sure the fore-fathers are thrilled to see how that amendment has been interpreted.
Machine guns for everyone!
Yes Please.
I'm sure the Founding Fathers would have never imagined that hemp would be illegal.
Taxed, probably, but not prohibited.
I doubt they thought that people would ever willingly disarm themselves in the face of approaching state tyranny either.
here here ruffhauser
The right to keep arms is the only thing keeping the government at bay. That's why the founding fathers put that right in the Constitution. THEY WERE VERY WISE MEN!
IT'S TIME TO REMOVE ALL THE POLITICIANS THAT PROMOTE PROHIBITION. To much government is killing us all! Where are all the sick pot smokers? Where are all the people with tiny little brains that have shrunk from smoking pot? Where is the gateway that no more pot smokers travel through than any other group of the general population? PROHIBITION never works it just CAUSES CRIME & VIOLENCE. The USA spends $69 billion a year on the drug war, builds 900 new prison beds and hires 150 more correction officers every two weeks, arrests someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds, jails more people than any nation and has killed over 100,000 citizens in the drug war. In 1914 when there were NO PROHIBITED DRUGS 1.3% of our population was addicted to drugs, TODAY 1.3% of our population is STILL ADDICTED TO DRUGS BUT THERE’S WAY MORE DRUG RELATED CRIME AND VIOLENCE BECAUSE OF THE HUGE PROFITS PROHIBITION GENERATES. DRUGS TODAY ARE MORE POTENT, MORE READILY AVAILABLE AND LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THEY WERE IN THE EARLY 70’S WHEN RICHARD NIXON STARTED THE WAR ON DRUGS. The only way to control drugs is to REGULATE THEM AND END THE PROFITS AVAILABLE TO CRIMINALS just like ending alcohol prohibition did. There’s only been one drug success story in history, tobacco, BY FAR THE MOST DEADLY and one of the MOST ADDICTIVE drugs. Almost half the users quit because of REGULATION, ACCURATE INFORMATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT. No one went to jail and no one got killed. But what about the kids?... PROHIBITED DRUGS ARE WAY EASIER FOR KIDS TO GET THAN REGULATED DRUGS! The drug war is a failure, the epitome of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Everyone should DEMAND their Constitutional rights ARE honored. The right; to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property, to be protected from having your property taken by the government without due process of law and without just compensation, to confront the witnesses against you, to be protected from excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, to vote and many others have been denied to millions of Americans in the name of the drug war.
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