volitics wrote:Paladin656 said:

I'd like to know how that works, I need some extra cash.

Don't know for sure but you'd first have to get a butch haircut, join the poh-leece force, and take a billy stick and start beating the heck out of people.

You do know he's a cop, right?

volitics wrote:Don't know for sure but you'd first have to get a butch haircut, join the poh-leece force, and take a billy stick and start beating the heck out of people.

Yeah, because thats what all cops do...

I made the below remark only in jest:

Don't know for sure but you'd first have to get a butch haircut, join the poh-leece force, and take a billy stick and start beating the heck out of people.

The grammar and composition for this remark conveyed a different meaning than I had intended:

Also, the system in general, cops included, have been making money off of pot being illegal for a long time.

The quote should have been "We have been wasting our tax resources by having to hire more policemen than necessary in order to police marijuana users."

Mmhmm.


In reality, (speaking for my own department) officers and resources are much more concerned with meth, other such "real crimes," and jail over crowding. And just cause I know it's going to be said "well if pot were legal, you wouldn't have so many in jail" I do not know one single inmate by name that is in for pot, but could point out whole chunks of people in for meth.

Paladin656 wrote:Mmhmm.


In reality, (speaking for my own department) officers and resources are much more concerned with meth, other such "real crimes," and jail over crowding. And just cause I know it's going to be said "well if pot were legal, you wouldn't have so many in jail" I do not know one single inmate by name that is in for pot, but could point out whole chunks of people in for meth.

hey paladin PM me and if u would let me know what dept you are with, because when I go back to college(my last semester), i work with the county and campus police as a part time officer.....Its nice to see another boy in blue.....

Personally I wouldnt mind weed being lagal less frigin paperwork i deal with the better. My problem and alot of other peoples problem is this damn meth, thats taking over rural tenessee, and even my county in kentucky. When im up there I also work as a voluteer firefighter, and I cant count how many times Ive seen a good house burn to the ground because of meth.

Paladin656 said

I do not know one single inmate by name that is in for pot

I believe you. Shows how out of touch with that particilar issue I am. What concerns me is shady elected officials getting elected to these public offices and then trying to line their pockets with money.

I was not thinking when I made the post about cops. I apologize for the remark.

I was not thinking when I made the post about cops. I apologize for the remark.

A little more thought before posting would seem advisable.

JC, very well said, dear.

The History Channel program about the history of drugs in general was very interesting, in that it played the issue as more of a racial one. Mexicans were the biggest pot smokers & people didn't want them around (de ja veux) so they made their recreational drug illegal as an excuse to get rid of the migrants (who worked their asses off & used the herb to chill out at the end of their long days). The other push came from the companies who used wood to make paper & saw the hemp industry as its rival. It was good business for them to demonize the plant & its effects. Made em lots of money.

In my days of working in kitchens, I noticed that the majority of the back of the house staff indulged in such activites & still worked their asses off & did an excellent job. Go eat at Ruby's, Applebee's, O'Charley's, Outback, you name it & chances are, your food was prepared & served by potheads. They work, they pay taxes, they love their families. They are a different breed entirely than meth heads. That shit is pure poison to the user & anyone living in the area where its made. Meth = evil.

As to the politics, I'm with Buttercup. There are tons of other things we need to put our energies towards fixing before we take up this argument in earnest. The system itself is corrupt & broken. Let's try to resurrect democracy before anyone tries to stick a joint in its mouth.

Hardcoregirl wrote:

volitics wrote:

The Libertarian Party wants to legalize marijuana you know.

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A Libertarian Club could lobby for the relaxation of marijuana laws and other issues of importance to the KnoxGothic community.

Its a two party system.

lol yea two party system .
seems to be a one party system if you ask me, which you didn't so I'll shut up.

I'd say our current system iz no party at all ...

The Stormstress wrote:I'd say our current system iz no party at all ...

Agreed

In my experiance Libertarians are much more conservative than your average Republican.

Pot makes people lazy, and horny.

I hope that is the reason it isn't legal. We all saw what happened when they made McDonald's legal...We are now the fattest country in the world.

Next we will be the laziest (not to say that we aren't already) and more populated than China. Not to mention poverty at the fact that people wouldn't be working.

Everything is ok in moderation, prohibition was part of a Nationwide reform that had occured during Victorianisim after the Industrial Revolution...before that it was ok for a woman to sell her body in a bar...We are a nation of trends. We move in waves just like the economy.

I can't wait to see where we go next.