Marijuana

[ZooGardens]

the united<br />international city<br />of the republic.

No this isn't a website about Somalia's wild west Bakaara Market in "Mogadishu" led by Adid's warlords nor is it Kimbo Slice's favorite abandoned building to con people out of their lives in.

This is a website about a society...

An no you wouldn't get to own American Pitbulls, Stafforshire Terriers, Rottweilers, Any kind of Shepherd dogs, Dobermans, Boxer dogs, Bulldogs, Mastiffs, Cane Corsos, Presa Canarios, Dogo Argentinos, Dingoes, Wolves, or anything mixed with Dingoes or wolves, or anything on that list.

You also wouldn't get to own Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My! hahahahaha



No you wouldn't get to own guns....

Beware of dog signs, or signs that threaten to shoot people are also illegal.

And you don't here... nor would you there... get to be addicted to, or use recreational substances and/or certain activities and functions...
Before you are reasonably assumed... to be a fully developed, mature, decently educated adult who is out of school and is self supporting... or is old enough to fit that description.

No... 10 year old children don't get say that don't want a flu vaccine, a hepatitis vaccine, a MMR vaccine, tetanus vaccines, stitches, casts, eye drops, or surgery... etc etc.

No... Old men with 30 years experience as a businessman doesn't get to tell some 15 year old girl how much he claims to love her.


And no you wouldn't get to just turn 18 and go hop in a car and decide to go take a little spin...you need a license and learn how to drive.


And no you wouldn't get to just walk into a sex worker's office and go give her your HIV... you need her instant tests, and background check, and a condom.


No you don't get to go take MMA, become a 300 pound battering ram and bust people up and con people out of their lives.. You need a license and you can only fight in the RING against other equally trained, 300 pound battering ram peers of yours.



No you wouldn't get to just open up a business and advertise your chicken wings and sell people rat legs disguised as chicken wings..
You need a license and inspections and keep your business a certain way...

And You also wouldnt get to have 100 % german white old men working there either... you open up and become the economy, you serve the economy and provide opportunity.


And you're going to pay taxes for your house... $600 a month per $10,000 in selling value, we're not raising a bunch of dummies because you want to hate us all.




Thank you.

 

[aaronleland]

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[Indofred]

Marijuana, dope used by dopes.


I believe all drug dealers should face a firing squad, regardless of the drug or quantity.
Anyone with any illegal drug should have to prove they aren't dealing, not the state prove they are.
If they have it, it's their own fault.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - lock `em up an' throw away the key...

U.S. court hands second Canadian life sentence for pot smuggling
Tuesday 26th January, 2016 - The second of two Canadian men convicted of running a multimillion-dollar marijuana-trafficking operation has been sentenced to life in prison

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 42-year-old Gaetan “Gates” Dinelle of Cornwall, Ont., was sentenced in federal court in Syracuse for running the operation that smuggled about 10 tonnes of pot across the U.S. border in northern New York.

Prosecutors say Dinelle and 45-year-old Michael “Mickey” Woods, also of Cornwall, were the leaders of a marijuana-smuggling ring that operated from 2005 to 2008 and made more than $10 million in profits in a single year.

After couriers smuggled the pot across the border it was delivered to buyers throughout the eastern U.S. Both men were convicted in July. Woods was sentenced to life imprisonment on Jan. 14. Dinelle was sentenced last Thursday.

U.S. court hands second Canadian life sentence for pot smuggling

 

[waltky]

Granny says dey oughta make marijuana bullets to fire atta jihadis an' goofyize `em so dey can't fight...

Senate Committee Renews Medical Marijuana Provision in VA Bill
Apr 15, 2016 | Senate lawmakers on Thursday once again signaled to the Veterans Affairs Department they want VA doctors able to talk to patients about use of medical marijuana.

By a 20-10 bipartisan vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to the military construction and veterans legislation allowing agency doctors to make recommendations to vets on the use of medical marijuana -- something they can't do now even in states where cannabis prescriptions are legal. "We should be doing everything we can to make life easier for our veterans," Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, said in a statement. "Prohibiting VA doctors from talking to their patients about medical marijuana just doesn't make sense. The VA shouldn't be taking legal treatment options off the table for veterans."

Medical marijuana is being prescribed in some states for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, even though its effectiveness remains questionable. The legislative amendment was sponsored by Merkley and Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, who successfully got the same amendment through the committee in November, only to see it stripped from the bill by House lawmakers a month later. The latest language still has to be considered by the full Senate and then be sent once more to the House for approval.

Marijuana is measured in 3.5-gram amounts and placed in cans for packaging at the Pioneer Production and Processing marijuana growing facility in Arlington, Wash.​

The VA won't comment on the lawmakers' actions on medical marijuana, but its website quotes a report by2 Marcel Bonn-Miller of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, and Glenna Rousseau of the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, dismissing marijuana as useful in treating veterans. "Controlled studies have not been conducted to evaluate the safety or effectiveness of medical marijuana for PTSD," the report states. "Thus, there is no evidence at this time that marijuana is an effective treatment for PTSD. In fact, research suggests that marijuana can be harmful to individuals with PTSD."

The federal government in 2014 approved a study on medical marijuana to be conducted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based nonprofit research center. But the research hasn't yet been completed.

Senate Committee Renews Medical Marijuana Provision in VA Bill | Military.com

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Vets Group Blasts Obama for 'Neutrality' on Proposed GI Bill Cuts
Apr 15, 2016 | The head of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is criticizing President Barack Obama for his unwillingness to oppose planned cuts to the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

Paul Rieckhoff, founder and chief executive officer of the organization, known as IAVA, on Thursday called on all lawmakers and the president to say where they stood on House legislation that will cut in half the housing allowance for students attending college on a parent's GI Bill. The move could mean a loss of anywhere from a few hundred dollars to upwards of $2,000 a month, depending on where the child attends school. "This is extremely disappointing to hear from our commander in chief," Rieckhoff told Military.com on Friday. "You cannot be neutral on a moving train. We need him to stand strong. He stood with us when we passed the GI Bill in 2008. We need him to stand with us now in defending it. "This is a no-brainer for the President," he added.

In response to Military.com's request for the president's position on the proposed cut, White House spokeswoman Ruvin Hallie said, "We'll decline to comment on this." Rieckhoff and representatives from other veterans groups rallied on Capitol Hill with half a dozen Democrat lawmakers who already have pledged to fight the cut, among them Reps. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, all of whom are Iraq War veterans.

The cuts in the housing allowance are being used to fund other veterans programs, including improvements to postnatal care for female veterans, expanded K-9 therapy for veterans suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder, the reauthorization of the VA work-study program and removal of the cap on VA home loan guarantees.

But critics, including lawmakers at the event, slammed the move, saying it amounts "robbing Peter to pay Paul." None of the speakers oppose the new or expanded programs, but believe Congress should come up with the money from elsewhere. Rieckhoff said that Obama, as the grandson of a World War II veteran, knows the importance of the GI Bill. "He's always been an ally and we hope he'll be an ally again" on this, he said.

Vets Group Blasts Obama for 'Neutrality' on Proposed GI Bill Cuts | Military.com

 

[waltky]

The DEA has decided to keep marijuana on the Schedule One list of the most dangerous controlled substances...

DEA Declines Request to Reclassify Marijuana, Citiing Its 'High Potential for Abuse'
August 13, 2016 – The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has declined two petitions to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), noting that cannabis “does not have a currently accepted medical use.”

“Using established scientific standards that are consistent with that same FDA drug approval process and based on the FDA's [Food and Drug Administration] scientific and medical evaluation, as well as the legal standards in the CSA, marijuana will remain a schedule I controlled substance,” Chuck Rosenberg, DEA’s acting administrator, said in his August 11 letter to petitioners. Marijuana “does not have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, there is a lack of accepted safety for its use under medical supervision, and it has a high potential for abuse,” Rosenberg stated. “If the scientific understanding about marijuana changes – and it could change – then the decision could change,” he added.

Bryan Krumm, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in New Mexico who says he uses cannabis to treat patients suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, petitioned for marijuana to be removed from Schedule I in 2009. Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee also petitioned for rescheduling of marijuana in November 2011. Current Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo took over the petition after winning their gubernatorial elections. Their petition called for the drug to be reclassified from Schedule I to Schedule II to allow it to be used in medical treatments.

According to DEA, “Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” DEA also considers schedule I to be the most dangerous controlled substances, with “potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.” Besides marijuana, Schedule I drugs include heroin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Schedule II drugs, which can induce “severe psychological or physiological dependency,” include opiods and barbituates such as adderall, cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, ritalin and vicodin.

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[waltky]

Don't smoke pot - ya liable to end up homeless...

Colorado Police Chief Links Pot, Homeless
March 15, 2018 - Pueblo Police Chief Troy Davenport said Wednesday that his officers are being told by homeless people regularly that they have come to Colorado for marijuana and some specifically to Pueblo because of the climate.

Disputing study, Davenport says his officers regularly see the connection Pueblo Police Chief Troy Davenport said Wednesday that his officers are being told by homeless people regularly that they have come to Colorado for marijuana and some specifically to Pueblo because of the climate. "They come to either extensively get jobs in the marijuana field or as it ends up, most of the time to just get marijuana," Davenport said. The chief disputed a study by Colorado State University-Pueblo's Institute of Cannabis Research, saying it did not include the information he has had relayed to him from officers pertaining to homelessness and poverty. The study said Black Hills Energy's disconnection of service to thousands of power users was a key -- if not the key -- reason for the local homeless problem. Black Hills strongly disputed that conclusion, pointing out that the overwhelming majority of those accounts disconnected were reconnected, and that the factors for homelessness are varied.

Davenport said the department was not contacted for that portion of the study, but was contacted in other areas, including the section on crime and cannabis. Researchers analyzed the results of 20 interviews with city patrol officers in June regarding their personal experiences confronting crime in the era of legal cannabis. Davenport said his department needs to have a better way of tracking information about the possible connection between homelessness and the legalization of marijuana in Colorado. "We are observing directly from talking to people that many people who are homeless came here so that they could get marijuana legally," Davenport said. "On top of that, I think that a situation has been created where people can grow marijuana here and it's a very high quality because they don't have to worry about it being confiscated or busted by law enforcement."

Police Chief Troy Davenport​

Davenport said he is seeing cases in which people are shipping large amounts of marijuana out of state to other locations due to the markup that they can get. "Our narcotics officers have several cases where the postal service is called or FedEx is called because of a suspicious package and it indeed is large amounts of marijuana being shipped to other destinations and they get large amounts of markup on it," he said. Davenport said homeless people also tell officers that they come to Pueblo for other reasons. "Our climate probably has something to do with it. Sometimes the perceived -- and I would emphasize perceived -- low cost of living is another reason and other benefits that they can get," Davenport said. "Sadly, sometimes there are people that end up homeless for other reasons. I don't think that we can close our mind on those people who fall on difficult times and end up homeless, but what we are observing directly is that there is a cause an effect between marijuana and homelessness."

Davenport said collecting data on the link is difficult, but the conversation about it is frequent and consistent. "We do collect data and we are cognizant of the fact that we need to do a better job of collecting marijuana-specific data. We can tell you how many we have charged, but that number has probably dropped because it's legal," Davenport said. "How do we document something that we don't do because it's legal? How do you quantify the resulting negative effect of positive effect if there isn't?" Davenport said he thinks the department can brainstorm how it can better collect that sort of social data. "And maybe the police department is not the best place for that. Maybe a social service agency of some kind is the better place," Davenport said. "People may arguably be more open with people not wearing a badge."

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