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Deputies Find Pot Plants Tied with DHS Logo Tape

 

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EMHOUSE, Texas  --  Deputies securing a clandestine field of marijuana Tuesday found plants tied to stakes by tape bearing the Department of Homeland Security logo and the words "inspected."

 

 

It looks like the kind used by TSA to mark bags and freight that have been inspected, said Navarro County Sheriff Les Cotten. But it wasn't immediately clear if the tape was authentic or how it ended up in the field.

Deputies arrested one man who told them the tape came from the people responsible for the pot growing operation, officials said.

The find was made at a field two miles west of Emhouse and was near several homes. The marijuana plants were hidden behind a tree line some 100 yards off the roadway, Cotten said.

Officials found more than 2,000 plants, most of them growing and some being dried, said Sheriff's Capt. Elmer Tanner.

Emhouse is about 45 miles southeast of Dallas.

BLEEP the war on marijuana, I want my tax dollars back!! Wasting our tax money and misappropriating law enforcement personnel and resources should be enough to convince our national government to decriminalize the personal use, possession, and (within reason) cultivation of God's miracle weed.  Tax it, regulate it and use the multi-billion dollar industry to pay off our war debt of over $600 billion and stimulate our dying economy.

Oh, wait....that acutally makes a little sense. Nevermind.

 I can't believe the man the police arrested for growing marijuana, Dwayne Marshall Nielson, lived in my home town. Not but maybe a 7 minute car ride from my old street. Of course I never knew him, lol, I never touched pot till college. Still, I don't think I could have guessed that a pot farmer was living in Red Oak...looks like the market is gonna be a little thin soon, lol. He's probably going to be in jail for a long, long time because he was growing so much freakin weed but hey, it'll only cost about $17,000 dollars (yours, mine and our tax money) a year to feed clothe and shelter this guy for every year he spends in prison. Yes, he broke the law and will be punished in accordance with Texas state law, but if the law were changed and we could possess and grow (within reason, of course) there would essentially be no black market and *poof* no more pot farmers clogging the prison system, saving up money and space for real criminals. 

Thats just my opinion....

 Yup, some 15 million self proclaimed pot heads roam the country. And that sweet leaf will be starring in some of the summer's comedy releases featuring a few slightly befogged, yet familiar faces. This summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize nor celebrate it.

 Pot subculture is flourishing even as the government supresses real scientific research and keeps the wheels of prohibition and oppression rolling, releasing its own "studies" that mislead the public to try and convince people that its become more potent leading to, you guessed it, more "potential" (a blatantly absurd lie) health risks. And yes, it has gotten more potent, but you know what people do to compensate for good bud? They smoke less. Realistically the weed you'll find buried in the sock drawer or hidden in that little black box at that waaayyyy tip top of the closet is only between 3-5% THC. The White House bloates that figure to make the assumption that most commercial weed in the stash box  is now at over 9% THC, and some of it probably is. If you can afford to pay 25-30 bucks a gram for it. Just so you know one well rolled, average size, dubbie uses about 3/4 to a full gram, so you can do the math to figure out how much it would be to stay supplied for the week. Weed shops in the Netherlands have strains that go as high as 16% THC...and guess what, no crazies running around zonked out and stupid on weed, nope, they're functioning, tax paying, go to work everyday, people who contribute back to society even if the only way is by buying more pot in the coffee shop.

Tax it. Regulate it. Smoke it. Share it.

 Just when I was beginning to think that people couldn't get any less intelligent, I read about this. This is ridiculous, smearing hemroid creme all over your body because it dries your skin out making you look a little more built, and the ladies love it...or so they think. Besides, I wouldn't waste my time on some superficial, high maintence, party chick anyway, but thats just me and we're talking about dudes putting a-ss creme all overthemselves. I'm not sure what the club scene is like, because the idea of being in a building with 100+ other drunk people with equally horrible taste in music just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe it works, I don't know, but I certainly won't take the time to find out and would be quick to label anyone who does/would a giant BLEEP. So frat boy, sit back drink your piss water party beer, smear on your butt ointment and scope out some chicks, cause you can have it.....moron.

 I know I've been blogging about the same general subject for some time but I feel that it is a pertinent issue in light of the times we live in today. A man in Washington state died from liver complications after being denied a transplant because he had been prescribed medical pot to treat his symptoms associtated with Hepatitis C. Medical Marijuana is legal in 12 states including Washington. Polls conducted by various media networks and some independent have shown that roughly 3/4 of the American population are in favor of decriminalizing/legalizing medical marijuana. Recently, 2 bills were introduced to the House of Representatives on April 17, 2008. One (H.R. 5843) would strip away almost all federal criminal penalties for personal possession of up to 3 ounces and non-profit tranfers of up 1 ounce. The other (H.R. 5842) would bar the DEA and federal government from hassling medical marijuana patients and their providers doctors, smoke shops, etc. States will retain the right to criminalize marijuana if they so choose. I realize that there are more important things going on in the world and this country other than cannabis consumer's rights but if you take just a few minutes to think about how many billions of dollars have been wasted on marijuana prohibition for over 70 years and how the "problem" still hasn't gone away you might catch a few ideas on how your tax money could be spent more effectively. What if instead of spending billions on pot prohibition that money when into college scholarships, new schools, public transportation, road maintence/construction, food aid for natural disasters or times of crisis? You could probably write an entire book on what could be done with that money other than spending it on policies that should not be enforced and that the people do not want enforced. Write our representatives and congressmen, urge them to support these bills and stop wasting your's and the rest of our money.

I know many of you won't be as excited about this as I am but I'll say it anway. Yesterday, for the first time in almost 25 years, NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws) in partnership with Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) are spearheading the "pro-pot" legislative campaign in D.C. As introduced, NORML’s proposal would eliminate all federal penalties prohibiting the personal use and possession of up to three ounces of marijuana. Under the measure, adults who consume cannabis would no longer face arrest, prison, or even the threat of a civil fine.  In addition, this bill eliminates all penalties prohibiting the not-for-profit transfers of up to one ounce of pot.  In other words, for the first time since 1937, the possession, use, and transfer of marijuana by adults would be legal under federal law! Hopefully, with polls showing 3/4 of Americans in favor of decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana, congress will embrace facts and science over propaganda and speculation and we can finally move ahead and start utilizing marijuana and hemp the way it was for over 5,000 years before it was outlawed! This is exciting news for some, and a good excuse to roll your eyes in contempt for others but email, write, or call our other state representatives and urge them to support House Bill HR 5843! 

I was checking myfox, reading blogs and brushing up on a few current events and noticed the video with the teens getting a toddler to smoke pot. If you read my last blog " I'm right you're wrong-" you should know what my stance is regarding the legality of marijuana but what has transgressed from this video just makes me sad. Show some f*ing common sense people, seriously. Doing things like this then having the odacity to  video tape it is what gives responsible cannabis users a bad rap and keeps prohibition laws from reformation and just adds fuel to the reefer madness politcal bonfire. These were two very stupid and irresponsible teenagers who do not represent the kind of  responsible and self-aware people who do want pot decriminalized. They should be prosecuted just for being so careless. I'm not worried necessarily that smoking pot, hopefully just the once, at age 2 will dramatically affect the childs overall growth and development but I do recognize the fact that it was wrong. Pot is not bad, what is bad are the actions and characteristics of  the foolish and irresponsible who use pot unwisely

-Please, toke responsibly.