[VIDEO] ~ Portugal legalizes ALL personal drug usage, Usage and crime drop instantly

[Oddball]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

 

[Oddball]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Do you think drug traffickers accustom making big money in an illegal trade would just go straight? or would they just find another high paying illegal activity to engage in?

They'll have no choice in the matter.

OTOH, they could also raise the drug cartel equivalent to the Kennedys.

 

[CurveLight]

I assume we take the reporting in this clip as unquestionable facts eh? No way it could be a biased source at all.

I checked a couple of other sources and found consistent results. You have something that shows contrary conclusions?

 

[ABikerSailor]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Do you think drug traffickers accustom making big money in an illegal trade would just go straight? or would they just find another high paying illegal activity to engage in?

I can guarantee that all the pot dealers would put down their guns. Why? Simple, they can now sell their product to companies like the cigarette companies rather than carve off areas of operation via gang war.

Chances are, when the other dealers of stuff like meth, cocaine and heroin (which should remain illegal in my opinion), would follow suit and become pot farmers.

And yes, the DEA would still have something to do.

As far as my personal opinion about it? I'd rather follow the advice of God when He told Adam and Eve "if it grows out of the ground, you may have it". It was also reiterated to Moses on Sinai.

Oh yeah.........the Holy Anointing Oil of the Kings of Israel, God's Chosen People? One of the ingredients was cannabis oil.

It was also used medicinally as well as for pleasure, there is archaeological evidence of this.

 

[Oddball]

And yes, the DEA would still have something to do.

Yeah, they could go out and get real jobs too.

Everybody wins.

 

[CurveLight]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Do you think drug traffickers accustom making big money in an illegal trade would just go straight? or would they just find another high paying illegal activity to engage in?

You don't legalize drugs to push dealers into tax paying jobs.

 

[ConHog]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

Based on my life experiences with them. Meth dealers , for example, are poorly educated , lazy motherfuckers. They will barely be welcome at McDonalds let alone a job that would pay them the equivalent of what they are making selling drugs, they won't just give up that income.

By the way to the person who claimed the Mormons started Las Vegas Bugsy Segal. That's all I have to say.

 

[Oddball]

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

Based on my life experiences with them. Meth dealers , for example, are poorly educated , lazy motherfuckers. They will barely be welcome at McDonalds let alone a job that would pay them the equivalent of what they are making selling drugs, they won't just give up that income.

By the way to the person who claimed the Mormons started Las Vegas Bugsy Segal. That's all I have to say.

So what?

Let the poorly educated, lazy m-effers go out and perpetrate a real crime with real a victim, and see how badly they want to live a life of crime.

As it is now, all the "criminals" dealing drugs are doing is supplying something that others willingly want to buy....A much more morally rational motivation than the politicians and police state bureaucrats who keep the failed policies in place.

 

[ABikerSailor]

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

Based on my life experiences with them. Meth dealers , for example, are poorly educated , lazy motherfuckers. They will barely be welcome at McDonalds let alone a job that would pay them the equivalent of what they are making selling drugs, they won't just give up that income.

By the way to the person who claimed the Mormons started Las Vegas Bugsy Segal. That's all I have to say.

Really Cum Hog? Quick piece of advice for you......wikipedia is your friend........

The first reported visit to the valley by someone of European descent was Raphael Rivera in 1829.[3] Las Vegas was named by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party,[4] who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. In the 1800s, areas of the Las Vegas Valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas or meadows (vegas in Spanish), hence the name Las Vegas.

John C. Frémont traveled into the Las Vegas Valley on May 3, 1844, while it was still part of Mexico.[5] He was a leader of a group of scientists, scouts and observers for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On May 10, 1855, following annexation by the United States, Brigham Young assigned 30 missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by William Bringhurst to the area to convert the Paiute Indian population to Mormonism. A fort was built near the current downtown area, serving as a stopover for travelers along the "Mormon Corridor" between Salt Lake and the briefly thriving colony of saints at San Bernardino, California. However, Mormons abandoned Las Vegas in 1857. Las Vegas was established as a railroad town on May 15, 1905, when 110 acres (44.5 ha) owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, was auctioned off in what is now downtown Las Vegas. Among the railroad's most notable owners and directors were Montana Senator William A. Clark, Utah U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns and R.C. Kerens of St. Louis.[6] Las Vegas was part of Lincoln County until 1909 when it became part of the newly established Clark County. The St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church near 4th and Bridger in downtown was founded in 1910.[7] Las Vegas became an incorporated city on March 16, 1911 and Peter Buol was the first mayor.

Las Vegas started as a stopover on the pioneer trails to the west, and became a popular railroad town in the early 1900s. It was a staging point for all the mines in the surrounding area, especially those around the town of Bullfrog, that shipped their goods out to the rest of the country. With the proliferation of the railroads, Las Vegas became less important but the completion of the nearby Hoover Dam in 1935 resulted in the growth of residents and tourism. The dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of the city, also formed Lake Mead, the US's largest man-made lake and reservoir. Today, tours are offered into lesser known parts of the dam. The legalization of gambling in 1931 led to the advent of the casino-hotels, for which Las Vegas is famous. Major development occurred in the 1940s. The success of the city's early casino businesses was owed to American organized crime. Most of the original large casinos were managed or at least funded under mob figures Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky or other mob figures at this time.[8] The rapid growth of this gambling empire is credited with dooming Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other major gaming centers in the 1950s.[9]

With the arrival in the late 1960s of businessman Howard Hughes, who purchased many casino-hotels, as well as television and radio stations in the city, legitimate corporations began to purchase casino-hotels as well, and the mob was run out by the federal government over the next several years. The constant stream of tourist dollars from the hotels and casinos was also augmented by a new source of federal money. This money came from the establishment of what is now Nellis Air Force Base. The influx of military personnel and casino job-hunters helped start a land building boom which, as of today, has leveled off a bit.

Though Las Vegas's gambling revenues have been surpassed by Macau, the Las Vegas area remains one of the world's top entertainment destinations.[10][11]

Las Vegas, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try again you pasty faced penis puffing pansy.

 

[fyrenza]

Oh, MANG!

All I've read is the frickin' TITLE and I'm

ROFLMFAO!!!

Wut a shock.

 

[ConHog]

How do you know that?

Based on my life experiences with them. Meth dealers , for example, are poorly educated , lazy motherfuckers. They will barely be welcome at McDonalds let alone a job that would pay them the equivalent of what they are making selling drugs, they won't just give up that income.

By the way to the person who claimed the Mormons started Las Vegas Bugsy Segal. That's all I have to say.

Really Cum Hog? Quick piece of advice for you......wikipedia is your friend........

The first reported visit to the valley by someone of European descent was Raphael Rivera in 1829.[3] Las Vegas was named by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party,[4] who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. In the 1800s, areas of the Las Vegas Valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas or meadows (vegas in Spanish), hence the name Las Vegas.

John C. Frémont traveled into the Las Vegas Valley on May 3, 1844, while it was still part of Mexico.[5] He was a leader of a group of scientists, scouts and observers for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On May 10, 1855, following annexation by the United States, Brigham Young assigned 30 missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by William Bringhurst to the area to convert the Paiute Indian population to Mormonism. A fort was built near the current downtown area, serving as a stopover for travelers along the "Mormon Corridor" between Salt Lake and the briefly thriving colony of saints at San Bernardino, California. However, Mormons abandoned Las Vegas in 1857. Las Vegas was established as a railroad town on May 15, 1905, when 110 acres (44.5 ha) owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, was auctioned off in what is now downtown Las Vegas. Among the railroad's most notable owners and directors were Montana Senator William A. Clark, Utah U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns and R.C. Kerens of St. Louis.[6] Las Vegas was part of Lincoln County until 1909 when it became part of the newly established Clark County. The St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church near 4th and Bridger in downtown was founded in 1910.[7] Las Vegas became an incorporated city on March 16, 1911 and Peter Buol was the first mayor.

Las Vegas started as a stopover on the pioneer trails to the west, and became a popular railroad town in the early 1900s. It was a staging point for all the mines in the surrounding area, especially those around the town of Bullfrog, that shipped their goods out to the rest of the country. With the proliferation of the railroads, Las Vegas became less important but the completion of the nearby Hoover Dam in 1935 resulted in the growth of residents and tourism. The dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of the city, also formed Lake Mead, the US's largest man-made lake and reservoir. Today, tours are offered into lesser known parts of the dam. The legalization of gambling in 1931 led to the advent of the casino-hotels, for which Las Vegas is famous. Major development occurred in the 1940s. The success of the city's early casino businesses was owed to American organized crime. Most of the original large casinos were managed or at least funded under mob figures Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky or other mob figures at this time.[8] The rapid growth of this gambling empire is credited with dooming Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other major gaming centers in the 1950s.[9]

With the arrival in the late 1960s of businessman Howard Hughes, who purchased many casino-hotels, as well as television and radio stations in the city, legitimate corporations began to purchase casino-hotels as well, and the mob was run out by the federal government over the next several years. The constant stream of tourist dollars from the hotels and casinos was also augmented by a new source of federal money. This money came from the establishment of what is now Nellis Air Force Base. The influx of military personnel and casino job-hunters helped start a land building boom which, as of today, has leveled off a bit.

Though Las Vegas's gambling revenues have been surpassed by Macau, the Las Vegas area remains one of the world's top entertainment destinations.[10][11]

Las Vegas, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try again you pasty faced penis puffing pansy.

Who gives a shit who walked their first? We were talking about who founded Las Vegas the gambling mecca, not who walked on a certain piece of land.

Might as well credit the Cherokee Indian Shits With Bears for "founding" Las Vegas

LOL and Maggie wonders why I'm not as civil as I was when I first came on the board..................

 

[blu]

We're not Portugal, if they jumped off a bridge would you follow them down?

Go read a book on logical fallacies please.

dont waste time on him

 

[ABikerSailor]

The reason Las Vegas was founded, was because the Mormons didn't want all the heathens running through their town drinking and carrying on while they were building the Hoover Dam, so they sent them to Las Vegas to do their sin.

Fuck off you goddamn pedant, go please purists, you sperm burping gutter slut Cum Hog.

 

[blu]

You libertine liberal commie pinkos! You want to ruin America!

Next thing you know they'll be saying cigarettes should be legal and then EVERYONE is going to smoke a pack a day. Goddammit. Don't they understand that the GOVERNMENTS GOTTA PROTECT PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES?! Can't they realize that the only reason people don't do drugs is because they're illegal!? Goddammit. Arghh!!! Grrrrrhhgghhhhh...... uhh....

if only drugs were illegal then no one would be able to get them as often and in what quantities as they want!

 

[blu]

I assume we take the reporting in this clip as unquestionable facts eh? No way it could be a biased source at all.

the stats are all over the place. next fallacy?

 

[blu]

No bootleggers ever decided on living another live of crime. They started the Mormon Church I think.

Wanna bet? Who do you think built Sin City Las Vegas?

That's right........Mormons.

robert de niro?

 

[blu]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

like when the mob kept bootlegging alcohol after prohibition? o yea i remember that...

 

[blu]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

because once you are a criminal you can never do anything legal again? duh!

 

[MikeK]

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

When alcohol prohibition ended the national crime rate declined dramatically. So whatever pursuits the displaced booze dealers followed the statistics do not support the theory of continued criminal activity. While some undoubtedly will follow other illegal pursuits there is no reason to believe that all or most would.

While I have no opinion on the potential legalization of all presently illegal drugs I strongly advocate the legalization of marijuana, which I believe to be relatively benign. And if marijuana were legalized the demand for it would not decline, meaning the need for experienced growers and distributors would remain constant. The major difference would be the federally mandated requirement to produce and distribute quality cannabis products, which implies the creation of a new tax-producing, jobs-producing industry.

 

[ConHog]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

like when the mob kept bootlegging alcohol after prohibition? o yea i remember that...

No they switched to other activities that were still illegal. DUH