>California is set to proposes to legalize the use of marijuana? Not only for medicinal purposes but for recreational purposes too? What the heck is happening to America?
See video here.
It’s Time To Legalize Marijuana! Judge Napolitano
Under this proposal, those who are above age 21 will be able to legally grow, buy, sell and smoke marijuana. Proponents are saying that this is good for tax revenue!
Look at how an ex-judge justifies this mad proposal.
0:50 min
Senior Fox News Judicial Analysts, Judge Napolitano, gives opinion that now is the good time to “do this” (meaning to legalize marijuana). Says probation has been a dismal failure. The govt has spent US$50b prosecuting drug abusers. He says as a former judge, he is frustrated having to lock up someone who doesn’t cause harm to someone else. He also says society is in the Victorian age, but he is Libertarian and believes a person should be able to make a choice for himself – so long as that choice does not hurt anybody else.
(This ex-judge has gotta be smokin’ pot himself! So selling drugs is not hurting someone else? Just like teaching young kids how to be gay or promiscuous is not hurting someone else?)
1:40 min
Host comments that parents won’t be happy about that. Napolitano replies, that this is not going to be available for children just like alcohol won’t be available for children. Points out that it is the voters who will decide and not Legislature. So it will be the people’s choice.
2:50 min
Host comments that it is already difficult to get people not to drink and drive, so if smoking marijuana is made legal, won’t it be a another problem? Napalitano replies govt should be concerned about people making choice for themselves than about taking care of them.
Here is another link about the legalization of marijuana in California.
Marijuana legalization officially on California ballot
Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified that the petitions seeking to place the question on the ballot had more than 433,971 valid voter signatures, the minimum number needed to qualify.
If approved, the initiative would allow those 21 years and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana, enough to roll several marijuana cigarettes. Residents also could cultivate the plant in limited quantities.
Solo Bear’s Comments -
Let’s face it. America (especially California) is in deeeeeep doodoo. It has a lot of debts. As such, it is hoped that the marijuana industry would prop up the economy and to bring those tax dollars to the US. Yeah, it ain’t about free choice of the individual, Napolitano, it is about $$$$$$.
One of the reasons of this cause of economic disaster America is facing now is due to its funding of two wars it has been embroiled for nearly the whole of this decade.
As for this marijuana thingie, who do you think is one of the biggest exporters? Wanna know? Afghanistan! Yeah, so that’s why US is not willing to pull out of there. Ironically, in Afghanistan, when it was under the Taliban, the drug industry was almost dead. No thanks to the yanks, this industry is now booming.
Ooooh, what an excellent time to legalize the drug trade, no?
Here’s more news about NATO objecting to Russia’s attempt to eradicate the drug trade in Afghanistan.
NATO rejects Russian call for Afghan poppy spraying
Russia’s anti-drugs czar, Victor Ivanov, met NATO ambassadors in Brussels and proposed that NATO troops be given a U.N. mandate and an obligation to eradicate Afghan opium crops, which were killing 30,000 Russians a year.
But NATO spokesman James Appathurai said the drug problem had to be handled carefully to avoid alienating local people. He said the alliance was continuing efforts to target drug lords and drug labs, but added at a news briefing:
“We cannot be in a situation where we remove the only source of income of people who live in the second poorest country in the world without being able to provide them with an alternative.”
But, but….. wasn’t the drug trade almost got eradicated by the Taliban (yeah those uncivlized Talibans killed and lynched about anybody, no?) before the war? Those villagers still managed to make a living through other means, no?
Well, like I said, the drug money is just too good. Ooooh, look at those $$$$$$…..
In the meantime, let’s see what the US is up to as far as the drug trade in Afghanistan is concerned…
Spraying fake herbicides? Oh yes, you need to make sure that those poppies are in good condition to be shipped to the US.
US Soldiers and locals in Afghani-poppy-stan. As long as US keeps those poppy plants alive and well to feed those villagers, those nasty Talibans who outlawed drugs won’t have a stinking chance to make a come back. Yeeeee-haw!
Ah, the smell of poppies, made in America. What? Don’t you know that Afghanistan is the 51st State of America? We’ve been here nearly a decade now and no one has claimed a right against us.
