The Profit Motive for Arresting Marijuana Users
Here’s a fun article interviewing college students in Massachusetts about their opinions on the new marijuana decriminalization policy. Unsurprisingly, most of them are all for it, but check out this remarkably candid response from an opponent:
Ed Finch, a 20-year-old sophomore from Franklin, voted against decriminalization for a couple of reasons. One was "purely financial," he said. His father is a Boston police officer who gets a lot of overtime when he has to go to court after a marijuana arrest, Finch said.
Yeah, I guess that’s pretty cool if the drug war is paying your tuition, bro. Imagine my surprise that none of the police officers who campaigned bitterly against decrim ever mentioned how much overtime the new law would cost them. It took a college student to concede the rank selfishness that drives police to defend marijuana prohibition.
Of course, it’s not just about money. It’s also about spite:
But his other reason is based on his own experience."I was frustrated with my stoner friends. They’re obnoxious, but I put up with them," Finch said.
Well, maybe we should pass a law that says Ed Finch’s friends watch too much Family Guy and never introduce him to any cute chicks.
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redditEd Finch, you win the scuz of the day award
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 3:57amDo you realize what you sound like? What other freedoms of others will you happily sell for a buck?
Ed Finch, you win scuz.........
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 5:40pmWhat do you expect? His father is a cop so you know he's an abused child.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 6:58am DWR: Thursday, December 18, 2008
Prohibitionist Honesty/Scott Morgan has the story
We're going to take your money now.Trust us
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More than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
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Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. xDrug Czar Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
- Jack Herer/Emperor Wears No Clothes
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At DEA, our mission is to fight drug trafficking in order to make drug abuse the most expensive, unpleasant, risky, and disreputable form of recreation a person could have.
-- Donnie Marshall, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln
872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not
"No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. ....the 63% of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, HOWEVER TEMPORARY, to stamp it out."
-William L. Shirer, author;
"The rise and fall of the Third Reich" p.259
The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist 01/07/03
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.
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FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked 12/15/01
On December 6, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) prevented a privately funded, FDA approved medical marijuana study from taking place by refusing to allow the researcher to purchase marijuana from a legal source.
300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression
Cannabis v Pharmaids
Many Veterans are the Enemy in the Bush D.E.A.th War
Sam Stone came home, To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back...
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Hemp v Chemical cotton's 90 million pounds of poisons
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda,
people can be made to see paradise as hell,
and also the other way around,
to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini, December 8, 1935
contributing to the "London Sunday Express"
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Exporting D.E.A.mocracy
This is part of our global contribution. The drug war has become the preferred foreign policy approach toward controlling much of the world. We export our drug war, our tactics, and, most of all, our DEA. (Now with offices in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caldeonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kiribati, Nauru, Philippines, Burma, South Korea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Laos, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bahrain, Chad, Dijibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Western Sahara, Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Azores, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Portugal, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Spanish Enclaves (Ceuta & Melilla), Algeria, France, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.)
With that kind of presence, we insure that the rest of the world follows our lead. And if they don't toe the line in the way we want to fight the drug war, we threaten to cut foreign aid, or in the case of Venezuela, which kicked out the DEA for spying, we accuse them of allowing drug trafficking.
Most countries are hesitant to buck the system, and would rather appear eager to participate
I was wondering?
Guest Drug WarRant Archives
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Why Support Marijuana Prohibition
"We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen."
- Gen. Barry McCaffrey - Former Drug Czar (Clinton)
(so... cancer patients shouldn't get marijuana and we shouldn't use hemp for biodiesel because that might lead to some people getting high?)
Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products 04/28/00
There are two possible reasons for this action. The Czar may be responding to pressure from the "drug testing" industry, which fears that widespread use of hempseed oil might result in numerous false positives, and to other industries that feel threaten by hemp.
Audubon Magazine - Legalize It!
Cannabis sativa is a low-maintenance crop that can be used in paper, clothing, rope-even cars. So why, when it's grown in 32 other countries, is hemp still illegal in the United States?
High on Hemp
Hemp, the misunderstood cousin of marijuana, is not a drug. You can't get high on it, any more than you could by smoking three feet of cotton rope. Yet it is the single most useful plant on earth. David Monson, farmer, school superintendent and state legislator has been trying for ten years to get a federal license to grow ten acres of it. His biggest stumbling block is the DEA which refuses to reclassify hemp, currently and ridiculously listed as a drug, in order to allow the culitvation of this extraordinarily beneficial crop.
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Competition Eliminated - Mission Accomplished
Marijuana prohibition sucks!
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/20/2008 - 3:39pmLess than 5 words.
The drug war is losing a lot of credibility
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 12:49pmbecause of its sadistic war on medicinal marijuana and its moronic war against hemp. As if banning recreational marijuana isn't moronic enough. Trying to force pregnant women or mean drunks to use alcohol if they want to get high, have you really thought that one through?
Great Info & Links
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 5:34pmTo Anon. who wrote "The Ganjawar Product" comment, thank you!
police are crimnals
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 2:43pmno shit how long did it take you to figgure that out .i might ad they are the most single threat to peoples saftey .they are profit driven crimnals .
mr obama
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 12:39pmplease free us .mr obama please tear down these prison walls
police
Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 9:25ampolice have become dispicable profitters in human misery .they are the crimnals we all loath .wtf
Drug policy reform needs undercover investigators
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 12:59amIt would be nice to get some off duty police officers on hidden camera conceding the profit motive and post it on YouTube, especially while they are having their happy hour.