The untold story of pot is that a good percentage of the legal pot industry is ran by folks a lot like the Mexican cartel.
There are large areas of Oregon, Washington and California where you better never be caught wandering around. The sheer number of people that have disappeared in these regions is staggering. I'm not talking about people who went there on vacation etc. and vanished... I'm talking about people who went there to live and work and their families never see them again. Never hear from them again.
My nephew about 5 years ago, had a buddy in Colorado telling him how he should come work at pot fields. So he actually goes.
He was there for about a full year before he was finally able to get out. They work them like dogs, house them in what is essentially slave shacks. Paychecks were erratic, and you were intimidated openly for even asking about it. They looked for kids who didn't have cars and had loose family connections. He was basically stuck there, with no real why of getting out.
In all told, he worked for about 6 months was only actually paid a few hundred bucks. He managed to catch a ride with one of the vendors and called his dad from outside of Denver, no money, no place to go to get a plane ticket out.
True story.
i dont doubt it. meet my nieces brother. its a shame to because he had a good head on him at one time.
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that aside, you think big weed will ever be spanked like big tobacco and big pharma? should they be? dont get me wrong, i like pot, but i feel big weed is getting a break where others havent.
Oh hell yes.
But they get a break because Marijuana is among one of the protected things by liberals.
You can't have the media talking about the health dangers of smoking marijuana AND at the same time push for legalization of it.
Marijuana is considered by many as actually MORE harmful than smoking cigarettes, because it is smoked without filters, inhaled deeply and people hold the smoke in their lungs for as long as they can.
But that topic isn't going to be raised much because, again, it doesn't fit the narrative. And narrative is by FAR the most important thing to liberals and leftist.
The very same people who want to ban cigarettes and punish tobacco companies to the hilt - are the same people who want to legalize a product just as dangerous.
This info is put out by National Institute of Health with accurate information, entitled:
More people are using the cannabis plant as modern basic and clinical science reaffirms and extends its medicinal uses. Concomitantly, concern and opposition to smoked medicine has occurred, in part due to the known carcinogenic consequences of ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Not being equally carcinogenic is only the cheep veneer that covers the “Cementer of Friendships,” because the ability of cannabis to antagonize androgen receptors means that it literally (effeminizes [italics]) male gonads. Then too, toking is an excellent way to play Russian hair-loss roulette with your familial hair genome. Bob Marley was one deceptive icon. In this respect, are you different from Mommy and Daddy, or not? You’ll find out, won’t you, Kitten.
Now did you try to rile me up or calm me down with that kitten part? Hard to know, but that’s part of the fun on this fine message board that I enjoy- not fully knowing and the fun of guessing! Haha
You are one of the posters I find unpredictable in a certain way. I mean that as a compliment. That being said….er Bulldog, I understand your negative sentiments regarding the use of marijuana. If we were to dissect the elements of the current push and pull due to states rights, voters that don’t want it in their state have the equal opportunity to just vote no. If you don’t want it in your state (if it hasn’t happened already) you as a citizen have every right to try to stop it from becoming legal. Good luck, unless maybe you live in my state which will be probably the last of all states that will vote to legalize it one day.
The federal authority should limit its authority to the following: declassify marijuana’s drug scheduled classification (currently the same as heroin).
There was a time when the legal system needed to fill its jail cells I guess, and there were plenty of pot users out there to help fill up those cells. I can 100% understand arresting anyone who has sold pot to someone under 21. Beyond that, anyone over 21 like with alcohol should have a choice about the matter, but abide by state laws or move, particularly since the health scare issues are being knocked out one by one.
Hours upon hours of police time wasted on tracking pot users when they should be doing more important jobs- depending on the state I could go into which jobs if you’d like- about how their time/focus could be spent to improve their communities.
The Mexican drug cartels rely on the illegal marijuana market to the tune of 50% of their profit margin. That’s significant, even though Mexican/Guatemalan cartels are now cooking heroin laced with fatal levels of Chinese made fentanyl, to produce a product costing much less than before due to the “boost”. There is where our government at large needs to focus-Mexican cartels have fully infiltrated in several major cities, frequently mentioned in the media without improvement, and their apparent lack of concern for openly selling . When picked up are they just released later and not deported? Yes. Or, if deported do they just sneak back in? Yes. Or are these Mexican cartel members paying off corruptive officials and ignored? Yes. Probably a combination of all of those and other factors -I need to read more. One thing is evident, because these cartels are continuing to grow in size, reportedly, they are not experiencing effective consequence as in deportation following lengthy jail sentences, with their pictures posted all over the place for citizen attention. Yet, they continue to get in and freely operate, having frequent fights between cartels even in the states now. If proactive cop time, dedicated jail time/space, and a concentrated effort made by those cities that have been infiltrated, the dynamic would change immediately. I don’t understand the hold up other than to blame the liberal cities for allowing it to happen and for it to continue.
