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XemaSab

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6. I don't even know why Mexican pot is even a thing any more

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:38 PM

May 2012

It's already the largest cash crop in Northwestern California, which is a depressed area.

Why not legalize the stuff, tax it, and end the war on pot?

It would kill like 8 birds with one stone.

Frankly, the older I get the more I think all drugs should be legal. If I wanted to go buy any drug, from pot to meth to heroin to crack, I bet I could buy any of that stuff within a mile of my house. Hell, the guy next door grew weed last year and the house on the other side was boarded up for being a meth house.

What would ending prohibition do? Make it so I could buy any drug I wanted within a half mile of my house? BFD.

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Fifteen people beheaded in Mexico, drug gang suspected [View all] Eugene May 2012 OP

Question: Were drugs and violence interwined 50 years ago? DaveJ May 2012 #1

1962? Not that I recall except for heroin dealers fighting each other, long before cocaine was chic. freshwest May 2012 #4

You can technically grow opium in your yard XemaSab May 2012 #5

Of course, but that's no one's business anymore than growing pot at home. The violence is about.. freshwest May 2012 #9

I have always thought Alcohol to be the most dangerous drug, kills you, just slower. Insidious and crunch60 May 2012 #10

Ha, you and me, bro al bupp May 2012 #7

It's time the prohibitionists in the US had to own these atrocities. 20score May 2012 #2

Iraq and mexico guss May 2012 #3

I don't even know why Mexican pot is even a thing any more XemaSab May 2012 #6

You're so right. EFerrari May 2012 #8

they counted the ears and divided by 2... n/t IamK May 2012 #11

Also, just heard on Pacifica that 3 journalists were just killed in Veracruz flamingdem May 2012 #12

El blog del narco catalogs the atrocities on a daily basis. Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #13

Looks like you've been reading the blog flamingdem May 2012 #14

I don't know that they're growing in strength, but... Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #15

Some of the bodies had been refrigerated before they were dumped tawadi May 2012 #16