Pot Politics

[JackLuis]

Hey AC!

I found this and thought that the comments beneath it interesting as well.

Feds threaten Oakland over plan to license marijuana farms

Actually they made the statement in regard to the first proposal for Oaksterdam's Plan to grow Pot in mass.

Federal prosecutors have told the city of Oakland, California, that they will prosecute pot farmers operating under the city's planned marijuana licensing scheme.

A letter from US Attorney Melinda Haag said the city's ordinance, which city council passed last year, breaks federal law and opens marijuana growers to prosecution.

But after city lawyers suggested the plan could violate federal law, the ordinance was shelved. It was this ordinance that Haag commented on in her letter, but city councilors say a new version of the law, which caps the size of each farm at 50,000 square feet, may escape prosecution.

That's because, as Haag noted in her letter, federal authorities don't pursue ill people who consume marijuana when allowed under state law. Under California law, marijuana can be cultivated by sick people with prescriptions or their "primary caregivers."

I think this should have been titled something like, "Oaksterdam adjusts to Federal Pot Pressures," Then the story would have been a constructive force rather than the divisive way it come over.

It's good info, but the slant obscures the facts.

 

[1sickbastard]

Stupid war on drugs...

Pot need to be removed as a schedule one narcotic.
Freakin' Dupont doesn't need the help proctecting nylon sales anymore & the USA could generate $50 BILION in taxes on the production & sales.

In addition, this would cut off one of the major source of funds for the drug cartels.

Not to mention $15 Billion in enforcement money that could go towards whatever!

 

[Bebeslut]

Pot need to be removed as a schedule one narcotic.
Freakin' Dupont doesn't need the help proctecting nylon sales anymore & the USA could generate $50 BILION in taxes on the production & sales.

In addition, this would cut off one of the major source of funds for the drug cartels.

Not to mention $15 Billion in enforcement money that could go towards whatever!

Never happen: pot is too useful a straw man for both the right and the left (the left that has been elevated to office; the rest of the left knows better.)

 

[1sickbastard]

Never happen: pot is too useful a straw man for both the right and the left (the left that has been elevated to office; the rest of the left knows better.)

I know, but a guy can dream...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Pot need to be removed as a schedule one narcotic.
Freakin' Dupont doesn't need the help proctecting nylon sales anymore & the USA could generate $50 BILION in taxes on the production & sales.

In addition, this would cut off one of the major source of funds for the drug cartels.

Not to mention $15 Billion in enforcement money that could go towards whatever!

There is nothing good about the war on pot. There may be some benefits, but I don't know of any. It's Prohibition all over again, and the only people who gain from it are the drug gangs who make a lot of money satisfying the need and the prison guards unions who have guaranteed jobs keeping a million or so basically harmless people in prison for pot offenses.

I think it's probably worse than Prohibition, because it has been going on longer than that farce did.

 

[1sickbastard]

There is nothing good about the war on pot. There may be some benefits, but I don't know of any. It's Prohibition all over again, and the only people who gain from it are the drug gangs who make a lot of money satisfying the need and the prison guards unions who have guaranteed jobs keeping a million or so basically harmless people in prison for pot offenses.

I think it's probably worse than Prohibition, because it has been going on longer than that farce did.

And prohabition didn't erode the civil liberties of the citizenry either

 

[mynameisben]

There is nothing good about the war on pot. There may be some benefits, but I don't know of any. It's Prohibition all over again, and the only people who gain from it are the drug gangs who make a lot of money satisfying the need and the prison guards unions who have guaranteed jobs keeping a million or so basically harmless people in prison for pot offenses.

I think it's probably worse than Prohibition, because it has been going on longer than that farce did.

It's a game American politicians play. They use pot busts to show America they can win a war. Some war, somewhere. Never mind that for every drug bust they hype up in the media there are 50 more successful smugglings that never get caught. What's important is that they can gather video "proof" they are fighting for you, for a better America. Failed busts are never aired.

The War on Drugs takes the heat off of the other senseless wars America wages, where thousands of young men die in wars that nobody wants, halfway around the world.