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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:16 AM Original message |
Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests (What ARE you smoking?) |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. I haven't taken a drag from a spliff in a long time |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Not sure what a spliff is. |
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amdezurik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. big bad scary Mexicans |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. A spliff is a joint |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. A spliff is a CONE SHAPED joint; 2 demerits! nt |
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rch35 (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. where i come from, a spliff is half weed half tobacco nt |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
38. "Not sure what a spliff is." It shows, palooka, it shows. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:43 AM Response to Reply #38 |
58. I'll admit it: you are SO much cooler than me because you do drugs. |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. reefer madness for the new century |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
54. actually it is true that the forests are |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
3. "You ain't just smoking pot, bud. " |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I thought his choice of words funny, too. |
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IntravenousDemilo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
5. The message: BUY CANADIAN! |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:30 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. or grow your own |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It was "ditchweed" in Iowa. Plentiful and free. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. There's Godiva's and there's Hershey's |
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obiwan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:42 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. See response # 15. |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. Always been high and lower grades. |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 07:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Point me in the right direction and OKAY! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
73. +1 |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:52 PM Response to Reply #73 |
79. Too bad. They grow some great weed in Mexico. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. If marijuana is outlawed, only outlaws will have marijuana..... |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
76. Ambien or Oxycontin are the Republicon drugs of Choice |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
12. So the general consensus is...this is just fear mongering, and it's |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
49. Very, VERY strange reaction here on DU. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
78. I believe it's happening, and that the wording of the reporting |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
13. Gee golly willikers! |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. So which part is BS, in your educated opinion? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 10:55 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. That this is by any measure a "crisis". That a state as horribly mismanaged as CA |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:10 AM Response to Reply #31 |
46. No facts at all in your post. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:39 AM Response to Reply #46 |
57. If you had bothered to read the reply to my reply, you might have noticed that I was asked for |
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malakai2 (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:31 AM Response to Reply #31 |
53. Think hypothetically for a minute |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:35 AM Response to Reply #53 |
55. The kneejerk denial of this story strikes me as very odd. |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:48 AM Response to Reply #55 |
59. PHOTO of confiscated pollutants |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:50 AM Response to Reply #59 |
61. There are a BUNCH of photos in Post #14. But I guess they're |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:49 AM Response to Reply #55 |
60. Interesting that you do not have the intestinal fortitude to reply directly. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:53 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. The real issue is that this is happening in our parks, and it |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:10 AM Response to Reply #62 |
64. Can you say paraquat? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #53 |
63. The hypothetical is not necessary, we have a real example and real statistics available. |
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malakai2 (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 09:22 AM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Well... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #66 |
72. So, the answer is no. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #63 |
70. Oops. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #53 |
81. I live in Northern California |
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OnyxCollie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
67. Sen. Feinstein thinks Michael Mukasey is a great guy, too. nt |
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obiwan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
15. From what I have experienced, Mexican marijuana sullies your head too. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 01:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. That might be a racist statement. I think. |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. So when the USgovt encouraged farmers 2 grow hemp in WW2 they were really farming 4 Mexican cartels? |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
19. Go with Cumberland Plateau skunkweed instead. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
21. The US government could shut this down overnight by legalizing marijuana. Period. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
22. In re some of the other comments:Sadly enough the pot farms in forests are often lethally guarded... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 10:57 AM Response to Reply #22 |
32. The well known and inevitable result of prohibition. n/t |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
82. On the other hand, I worked in the forests of Humboldt County for two summers |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
23. Maybe if users were allowed to grow their own this would stop? |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 07:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Maybe. The point of this article is, beware what you're toking... |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:19 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Please provide proof of the envirnomental destruction |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:07 AM Response to Reply #35 |
43. You have to be kidding. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
75. And please provide evidence they're Mexican grow ops. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. It's always been the case that one ought to be cautious about drugs. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
24. Pesticides are not needed. It's a tough weed that grows everywhere. |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:08 AM Response to Reply #24 |
44. Yes, they are lying about the pesticides. |
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malakai2 (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:10 AM Response to Reply #24 |
47. Pesticides is a broadly inclusive word |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:05 PM Response to Reply #47 |
80. The pesticides used are probably to keep mammals away. Those are the |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #80 |
84. Actually, with peppers, it's about funguses too: |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 04:04 PM Response to Reply #84 |
85. Thank you. I am a pepper eater. I love hot things. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
25. Legalize home cultivation for personal use |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #25 |
71. personal AND commercial use -- get some cash moving in the economy again... |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
27. This is a huge problem |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
28. This is a huge problem |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
29. Uh, if CLEAN 'murricans didn't DEMAND it, those dirty Meskins wouldn't "sully" - uh, SUPPLY it!1 n/t |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. Oh good, more anti-herb propaganda. Swell. |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:09 AM Response to Reply #37 |
45. It's not anti-pot, it's anti-moron |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:18 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. As soon as you can prove it, you'll have a point. |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:25 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. It's proven in the article. Nice try though. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:39 AM Response to Reply #50 |
56. So you automatically reject EVERY AP news story as BS? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:06 AM Response to Reply #37 |
65. You ever hear Bill Hicks bit on the families that sued Judas Priest? It's like that. n/t |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
39. "I've seen the pesticide residue on the plants," said the moran. |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
40. Legalize it, and localize it |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
42. All the more reason to legalize it. |
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wolverinez (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
48. I guess no one cares about the poaching of wildlife and pollution as long as they get their stash |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #48 |
69. it's the equivalent al capone and bathtub gin |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #48 |
74. Drug addict? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:22 PM Response to Reply #74 |
83. Just because my grandma gets her morphine from a doctor... |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #83 |
86. My point, which apparently went over your head |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #48 |
77. I guess, you would think the government would do something about it. |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
51. The government is responsible for this situation |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
68. Not getting my shit from Mexico I assure you |
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