Pot seized may be medical marijuana

One gram of medical marijuana costs $15 for high grade, $13 for medium grade, and $11 for low grade. This person would have to be pretty dang rich to have this much pot and it be medical marijuana. Cmon Border Patrol. Use your brains.

High grade weed is like fine wine. Its a matter of quality and taste.

As the saying goes, "Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease".

The police and the pot laws have caused much more harm than marijuana ever could. What a waste of time and tax money...

Make chain gangs out of these criminals, make pot offenders who are arrested and sentenced do trash pick detail along the highways, weed removal, etc...

Just waiting for the Obama justice dept. to get tough on these bogus medicial marijuana laws state have passed.

Probly just sum good bud stead of dat dirt weed they use 2 seeing

Cannabis has been used to treat glaucoma for many decades, if not centuries.

Marijuana is also used by many cancer patients as a therapy for symptoms, including nausea, appetite loss, pain, anxiety and depression. According to the American Cancer Society, marijuana helps eliminate nausea associated with chemotherapy.

It is ridiculous to think that using cannabis can lead to other drugs.

Besides marijuana prohibition has been a complete and utter failure. It costs us taxpayers millions of dollars every year and prohibition hasn't achieved its intended purpose. Does this not remind you of Prohibition in the 1920's?

I have read that Mexican drug cartels operate in 230 American cities, and marijuana sales account for up to 70% of their profits in the U.S.

Just like during The Prohibition, marijuana prohibition is creating a lucrative market for violent criminals and limiting the government's ability to control and regulate marijuana.

I think that a policy of taxation and regulation would better serve America by allowing the government to tax marijuana sales, keep it away from children using a program similar to the successful "We Card" program used for tobacco sales, and hit the drug cartels where it hurts by eliminating 70% of their profits.

I shall say again, legalize it. Get officers and money on the real issues at hand.

QUOTE who="Jean Rankin"]Cannabis has been used to treat glaucoma for many decades, if not centuries.

hence the Who's song.

I can see for miles

The REAL TDK wrote:

I shall say again, legalize it. Get officers and money on the real issues at hand.

Maybe we should legalize all crimes seeing how we can't stop any of them also!

Jean Rankin wrote:

Cannabis has been used to treat glaucoma for many decades, if not centuries.
Marijuana is also used by many cancer patients as a therapy for symptoms, including nausea, appetite loss, pain, anxiety and depression. According to the American Cancer Society, marijuana helps eliminate nausea associated with chemotherapy.
It is ridiculous to think that using cannabis can lead to other drugs.
Besides marijuana prohibition has been a complete and utter failure. It costs us taxpayers millions of dollars every year and prohibition hasn't achieved its intended purpose. Does this not remind you of Prohibition in the 1920's?
I have read that Mexican drug cartels operate in 230 American cities, and marijuana sales account for up to 70% of their profits in the U.S.
Just like during The Prohibition, marijuana prohibition is creating a lucrative market for violent criminals and limiting the government's ability to control and regulate marijuana.
I think that a policy of taxation and regulation would better serve America by allowing the government to tax marijuana sales, keep it away from children using a program similar to the successful "We Card" program used for tobacco sales, and hit the drug cartels where it hurts by eliminating 70% of their profits.

Guess my eyes must be bad, every day during lunch time at the high school, there are plenty of students smoking across the streeet from the high school, Guess "we card" is a success here too....

Land Locked Sailor wrote:

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Guess my eyes must be bad, every day during lunch time at the high school, there are plenty of students smoking across the streeet from the high school, Guess "we card" is a success here too....

There was a police log not long ago of someone cited for selling/giving cigarettes to minors.

Land Locked Sailor wrote:

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Guess my eyes must be bad, every day during lunch time at the high school, there are plenty of students smoking across the streeet from the high school, Guess "we card" is a success here too....

Are you reporting it? Medical marijuana has worked wonders for my pain.

All drugs should be legal. If a woman has a right to an intrusive surgery inorder to murder her baby then she should have the right to inject her body with heroin, cocain, marijuana or anything else she desires and if she dies so be it, after all it is HER choice, a womans choice!

WARRIOR wrote:

<quoted text>Maybe we should legalize all crimes seeing how we can't stop any of them also!

I think smoking a joint or killing a person quite different. The stats on ODs due to smoking pot are rather sparse as well. But we radicals tend to think crazy thoughts. lol

WARRIOR wrote:

<quoted text>Maybe we should legalize all crimes seeing how we can't stop any of them also!

What a ridiculous statement. Is that the best you can do?

Here are the reasons marijuana is illegal:

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/drugpolicy/t...

http://www.mapinc.org/tlcnews/v07/n1238/a04.h...

I think our federal government would work better if congress got stoned.

I think our money would be better spent trying to move the pacific ocean to the east coast, and I think we could build a better mouse trap if we had a few billion to spend on developement.

all of which would produce better results than the war on drugs.

In trying to understand the "reasoning" of my conservative opposition, I had to go way back in history to the 1930s. Here is the reasoning of the times by Harry J. Anslinger:

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”

“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”

“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-ma...

Anslinger was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity — a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.

Anslinger immediately drew upon the themes of racism and violence to draw national attention to the problem he wanted to create. He also promoted and frequently read from “Gore Files”— wild reefer-madness-style exploitation tales of ax murderers on marijuana and sex and… Negroes. Here are some quotes that have been widely attributed to Anslinger and his Gore Files:

http://reefermadnessmuseum.org/chap10/GorePar...

I can see why many of you are so afraid of pot.

Your Local Liberal wrote:

In trying to understand the "reasoning" of my conservative opposition, I had to go way back in history to the 1930s. Here is the reasoning of the times by Harry J. Anslinger:
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”
“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”
“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”
“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”
“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”
“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”
http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-ma...
Anslinger was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity — a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.
Anslinger immediately drew upon the themes of racism and violence to draw national attention to the problem he wanted to create. He also promoted and frequently read from “Gore Files”— wild reefer-madness-style exploitation tales of ax murderers on marijuana and sex and… Negroes. Here are some quotes that have been widely attributed to Anslinger and his Gore Files:
http://reefermadnessmuseum.org/chap10/GorePar...
I can see why many of you are so afraid of pot.

Reasoning? That's funny since the anti crowd cannot show any valid reason why this prohibition still exists.
It's about money and control. Lobbies pay pols to keep up the prohibition thereby benefitting the folks who profit from the status quo.
Lobbies such as alcohol, pharma, textiles, big oil, private prison builders, and, of course the criminal cartels want to keep the profits rolling in. Lifting of cannabis prohibition would give these sectors competition and rob the criminals of a lot of cash. If one could go to a smoke shop/ liquor store or even grow it them selves, most would do it rather than to deal with the elements who today have a monopoly on the industry.
Your links describe perfectly the flaws in the "reasoning" given by the anti crowd.
This prohibition was built, and still exists today, because of lies, inaccuracies and propaganda.
There are two types of folks who favor cannabis prohibition:
1) those who profit from it, and 2)those who believe the ridiculous hype spewed from group number 1.

Two nights ago, YouTube ignored a question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police that won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on the Google-owned site. They did, however, find the time to get the president on record about late night snacking, singing and dancing, celebrating wedding anniversaries and playing tennis.

Stephen Downing, the retired LAPD police officer and a board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), had this to say about the site ignoring his question: "It's worse than silly that YouTube and Google would waste the time of the president and of the American people discussing things like midnight snacks and playing tennis when there is a much more pressing question on the minds of the people who took the time to participate in voting on submissions. A majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana to de-fund cartels and gangs, lower incarceration and arrest rates and save scarce public resources, all while generating new much-needed tax revenue. The time to discuss this issue is now. We're tired of this serious public policy crisis being pushed aside or laughed off."

The top-voted video question from Downing is as follows: "Mr. President, my name is Stephen Downing, and I'm a retired deputy chief of police from the Los Angeles Police Department. From my 20 years of experience I have come to see our country's drug policies as a failure and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to the Gallup Poll, the number of Americans who support legalizing and regulating marijuana now outnumbers those who support continuing prohibition. What do you say to this growing voter constituency that wants more changes to drug policy than you have delivered in your first term?" The question can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch... .

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Here's where that guy got the pot from in california!