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You'd Think The Republicrat Numbskulls Would Have Better Things To Do...

H. E. Panqui

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...as to the stinking rotten gd fool 'war on drugs':.. there is no important difference between the biden and trump anal sphincters... [celebrity couple nickname: 'Bidump'] :cuckoo:

The Police State’s War on Weed and Backyard Gardens – The Future of Freedom Foundation

"...Backyard gardeners, beware: tomato plants have become collateral damage in the government’s war on drugs, especially marijuana.

In fact, merely growing a vegetable garden on your own property, or in a greenhouse on your property, or shopping at a gardening store for gardening supplies—incredibly enough—could set you up for a drug raid sanctioned by the courts....

...Surely, you might think, the government has enough on its hands right now—policing a novel coronavirus pandemic, instituting nationwide lockdowns, quelling civil unrests over police brutality—that it doesn’t need to waste time and resources ferreting out pot farmers.

You’d be wrong.

This is a government that excels at make-work projects in which it assigns at-times unnecessary jobs to government agents to keep them busy or employed.

In this case, however, the make-work principle (translation: making work to keep the police state busy at taxpayer expense) is being used to justify sending police and expensive military helicopters likely equipped with sophisticated surveillance and thermal imaging devices on exploratory sorties every summer—again at taxpayer expense—in order to uncover illegal marijuana growing operations.

Often, however, what these air and ground searches end up targeting are backyard gardeners growing tomato plants."
 

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Hmmm... spend a ton of money on equipment and resources only to find vegetable farmers or make a ton of money legalizing marijuana and taxing it. Oh, the dilemma the US federal government has!
 

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https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/magic-mushrooms/

"...Now, consuming magic mushrooms might be weird, crazy, unhealthy, dangerous, immoral, or addictive; it might even be all of those things and more — but since when is it the business of government at any level to prevent people from doing things that might be weird, crazy, unhealthy, dangerous, immoral, or addictive? That is the real issue.

We are not talking about people who sell or feed magic mushrooms to children or pass off magic mushrooms as regular mushrooms. We are not talking about people who “trip” on magic mushrooms in the middle of a playground or while driving a school bus. We are not talking about people who “trip” on magic mushrooms and harm someone else, commit some act of violence, or violate someone’s property rights. We are talking about consenting adults who consume magic mushrooms on their own property and purchased with their own money. So again, since when is it the business of government at any level to prevent people from doing things that might be weird, crazy, unhealthy, dangerous, immoral, or addictive?

Since some freedom is better than no freedom, when cities make exceptions to their drug laws to allow people within their jurisdictions to consume magic mushrooms, it is always a good thing whether or not consuming magic mushrooms is itself a good thing.

It’s the same way with marijuana. Thirty-three states have legalized the medical use of marijuana and eleven states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. When states make exceptions to their drug laws to allow people within their jurisdictions to use marijuana it is always a good thing whether or not using marijuana is itself a good thing.

But there shouldn’t have to be any exceptions made by any city or state regarding any drug. All drugs, from magic mushrooms to marijuana to cocaine to heroin should be legal for medical or recreational use regardless of the negative effects to the person using them. It is simply not the business of government to protect people from physically, mentally, or spiritually harming themselves.
 

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the failed war on pot should be ended federally in one fell swoop.
 

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Hmmm... spend a ton of money on equipment and resources only to find vegetable farmers or make a ton of money legalizing marijuana and taxing it. Oh, the dilemma the US federal government has!

We the people find that an absurd conundrum but, don't forget, the corporate opponents of legal weed are legally bribing our representatives to engage in marijuana hysteria, among other irrational things.

It's their own pockets they're concerned with, not yours and mine.
 

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We the people find that an absurd conundrum but, don't forget, the corporate opponents of legal weed are legally bribing our representatives to engage in marijuana hysteria, among other irrational things.

It's their own pockets they're concerned with, not yours and mine.

...follow the money...but in my experience the problem lies with the individual republicrat/authoritarian drug prohibitionist..['bidumpers' are certainly culpable]

...many stinking republicrat drug prohibitionists will work their holes about 'freedom' and 'liberty' and 'justice' as they facilitate the jailing, etc., of people exercising obvious unalienable rights to [and responsibility for] self-medication, ingestion, plant cultivation, etc...

...in an honest decent intelligent society 'the drug criminal' is an unjustly-treated victim... the drug pigs, et al, are the criminals... in 'bidumpland' bizarro-world is reality..
 

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...follow the money...but in my experience the problem lies with the individual republicrat/authoritarian drug prohibitionist..['bidumpers' are certainly culpable]

...many stinking republicrat drug prohibitionists will work their holes about 'freedom' and 'liberty' and 'justice' as they facilitate the jailing, etc., of people exercising obvious unalienable rights to [and responsibility for] self-medication, ingestion, plant cultivation, etc...

...in an honest decent intelligent society 'the drug criminal' is an unjustly-treated victim... the drug pigs, et al, are the criminals... in 'bidumpland' bizarro-world is reality..

The only caveat I would add to this is that it's the repubs who created the system of legal bribery that both parties now adhere to. I hold them more responsible.

In the early nineties I left the Democratic party to become an independent because so many Democratic politicians were piling on the "fiscal conservative" bandwagon, despite republican trickledown fascism being an OBVIOUS failure.

Sadly, the fascists are still more brazen and unapologetic in failure than the liberals have ever been in success.
 
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