Hatch Adds Marijuana Grow Amendment to Immigration Bill

This dude is a diabolical dummy who wants the drug war and the immigration problems to get worse rather than better. His only interest is in pushing the police state prison industrial complex.

Senator Hatch (R-UT) is at the forefront of the prohibition scam, and has been for decades.  He’s funneled both political support and promoted participation of his Mormon church in the drug war, encouraging and enabling a vast army of recruits to do battle against a non-existent, alleged menace such as marijuana. 

Hatch has led the Senate Judicial Committee for the Republicans and presided over introduced drug reform legislation that he consistently thwarts.  He’s a climate denier, and an avowed enemy of Obama’s health care revisions that help people get good medical care.  He votes a straight Republican ticket on everything favoring the 1%, no matter how offensive or wrong the intended legislation may be.  Any money-motivated act of oppression or bigotry perpetrated against the American people, or people of foreign lands, is typically A-okay according to stormin’ Orrin.  He comes across personally as Mr. Innocent, flaunting his Mormonism in the manner of a kind of oily Mr. Rogers, but it’s only a façade created to look as if he’s motivated by good intentions.

Under normal political conditions, someone like Sen. Hatch would have been booted out of politics.  But for the fact that he represents a Rocky Mountain state mired in the 19th century, one dominated by insular and archaic cultures seeking isolation from the world, Hatch would have been forced to leave the political scene long ago.  By mere circumstance, Senator Orrin Hatch represents the worst that American politics has to offer.

"These sites are typically far from the eyes of law enforcement, where growers can take the time needed to grow potent marijuana."  

Liberty's citation showing Hatch as leading pHARMa recipient nails it, but this quote about 'potent" rises further questions.  To whom or what is potent marijuana a threat?  Users who have a long-stem one-hitter can just serve a 25-mg vapetoke (or two) instead of rolling a 500-mg HBOM joint.   That's the problem.

Once cannabis users famously learn to titrate their dosage and ELIMINATE paper rollups altogether, there's a chance that "conservative" idea will spill over among nicotine $igarette addicts and collapse the market for the maximum profit "conventional" 700-mg $igarette format-- imagine all 45 million addicted Americans continuing their relationship with nicotine but...  buying/using a tenth or twentieth as much tobacco!

Now Mormons aren't supposed to approve of tobacco anyway, but...what about Republicans?   a.  Big 2WackGo over the last few decades has generally given twice as much campaign money to Republicans as to Democrats.   b.  The Republican voter base is reportedly twenty points more anti-cannabis than the Democrat.

Talk of "potent marijuana" is a handy way to scare kids into trying "regular" tobacco instead... Zap!  Hooked for life!  Pack-a-day habit in a high tax state: $4000 a year!  (And a few decades later, the victim needs Lipitor, hospital care etc. to treat "$moking-related" diseases.) 

Yea , " those Mexicans " have plenty of time to grow potent Cannabis on Federal land . Not a cop within a 100 miles . Must be nice . Is this the best that Utah can do ? Most of that acreage Cannabis gets pollinated . That means seeds . That means less potency . The mass crops planted on Federal land is anything but top shelf material . But what does a veteran suck-up congressman know about plants ? Mormonism is a cult by the way .