Ever so viligant in their war on drugs and the protection of citizens, the Drug Enfocement Agency (DEA) has once again gone after the worst of the dreaded pushers. No expense has been spared investigating, infiltrating and otherwise gathering incriminating evidence leading to the arrests of these vicious criminals (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290852,00.html)and seizure of their killer drugs. The members of the DEA, and their superiors involved in this highly dangerous operation are to be commended for their dilligence. Everyone can sleep more snugly knowing these villans are off the streets and facing severe punishments for their actions.

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I especially liked this paragraph.... Instead of using resources to go after drug dealers ruining neighborhoods and poisoning school kids, they're going after individuals dying of cancer and suffering from AIDS who need cannabis to have any type of appetite," Zine said.

Just legalize the stuff... sheesh.

Personally I liked this paragraph the best.

"Earlier this month, the DEA sent letters to at least 30 landlords of marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles County warning their property and assets could be seized. Agency officials said at the time the letters were not a threat."

Agent recounts Dallas pot bust near drug agency

01:27 AM CDT on Friday, July 13, 2007

By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA-TV


Marijuana plants found behind Dallas drug agency

1,100 marijuana plants seized in Richardson

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency - Dallas division
DALLAS - An undercover DEA pilot was flying his helicopter near the Trinity River when he discovered pot plants reaching as high as 12-feet tall growing not too far from Dallas' Drug Enforcement Administration office.

Camouflaged by trees, the agent said a group of plants that were a different color from the other vegetation in the area caught his eye. Even from 500 feet up, he said he knew something wasn't right.

"This is a pretty easy plant to spot right here," he said of marijuana.

DEA agents fly all over the country looking for marijuana.

"We typically, in the summer, will do marijuana eradication in different states," the agent said.

However, the agent said he was surprised to find the plants growing right in their own backyard.

"We were doing another operation and just happened to look down and saw it," he said.

Only about a hundred yards from DEA and FBI headquarters, agents found more than 325 plants.

Floodwaters along the Trinity River washed out the location, so the growers abandoned the crop.

"Someone has been watching these plants for quite awhile," the agent said.

Agents say the operation was a complicated one, with the plants arranged in plots carved out of the woods.

"They also found hoses, water, buckets, a generator and camp site," he said.

DEA agents used Dallas-Fire Rescue boats to get to the plants, which is a rare find in the middle of a city.

Agents estimated the stash's worth at about $286,000.

LOL I bet someone thought it was hilarious to plant weed right behind the DEA. :D

Only about a hundred yards from DEA and FBI headquarters, agents found more than 325 plants.....Agents estimated the stash's worth at about $286,000.

?!?!?

325 plants = $286,000.00 .............???

I can't believe it.

That's $880.00 per plant.

How many pounds do these fellows think each plant will produce....?!?!?!?

How much is one pound of pot??......$1000 dollars?!?!?!

I think the 286 thousand figure is bullshit.

?!?!?

325 plants = $286,000.00 .............???

I can't believe it.

That's $880.00 per plant.

How many pounds do these fellows think each plant will produce....?!?!?!?

How much is one pound of pot??......$1000 dollars?!?!?!

I think the 286 thousand figure is bullshit.

Well if they're stupid enough not to notice what is growing right in front of them, are we going to trust their worth assessment... I think not.

?!?!?

325 plants = $286,000.00 .............???

I can't believe it.

That's $880.00 per plant.

How many pounds do these fellows think each plant will produce....?!?!?!?

How much is one pound of pot??......$1000 dollars?!?!?!

I think the 286 thousand figure is bullshit.
You're kidding, right? If it was very good to excellent quality, it would go for at least $400 per ounce. That's $6,400 per pound. General "industrial" to mid-grade at least $100. You're looking at $1,600 per pound at the very least, that is unless you're smoking what I like to call dirt.

LOL... that wasn't even the biggest plant bust of the month. Shortly after that, they found 10,000 plants growing about 3 miles from my house. On land owned by the power company.

My question: WHY THE HELL WASN'T I NOTIFIED IT WAS THERE BEFORE THE BUST???

*grumble*

It's a no-brainer to legalize marijuana. And I don't think drug legalization should end there, either.

Why this idea doesn't have more political support, I don't know.

if it was legalized or decriminalised there would be more room in the jails for rapists, murderers, and facist pigs like bush and cheney. and it would free up courts, money, cops, money, jails, money, well , you get it. and those "criminals" wouldn't have a reason to make money off it. taxescollected from sellers of it, or growers would be put to good use instead of using tax money for stoopit shit.

i used to grow it until the nazi's around here got a wind of it and started watching me and trying to get me busted. i can tell you mandatory financial "figures" of what a plant are worth is bullshit. in all the years i had only ONE year that had a pound or more after it was dried on only ONE plant. on average i had was maybe 2 ounces per plant.

if it was legalized or decriminalised there would be more room in the jails for rapists, murderers, and facist pigs like bush and cheney. and it would free up courts, money, cops, money, jails, money, well , you get it. and those "criminals" wouldn't have a reason to make money off it. taxescollected from sellers of it, or growers would be put to good use instead of using tax money for stoopit shit.
Summed up very well. :)

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Originally Posted by primitive man
if it was legalized or decriminalised there would be more room in the jails for rapists, murderers, and facist pigs like bush and cheney. and it would free up courts, money, cops, money, jails, money, well , you get it. and those "criminals" wouldn't have a reason to make money off it. taxescollected from sellers of it, or growers would be put to good use instead of using tax money for stoopit shit.

Summed up very well. :)

Yes it was... until someone had to throw in a Bush-bash.

Definition of Primitive: crude: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.

Yep.

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Originally Posted by primitive man
if it was legalized or decriminalised there would be more room in the jails for rapists, murderers, and facist pigs like bush and cheney. and it would free up courts, money, cops, money, jails, money, well , you get it. and those "criminals" wouldn't have a reason to make money off it. taxescollected from sellers of it, or growers would be put to good use instead of using tax money for stoopit shit.



Yes it was... until someone had to throw in a Bush-bash.

Definition of Primitive: crude: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.

Yep.

I know!! WTF?? I was rather enjoying reading everybody's posts about POT. No matter what, somebody's got to throw some kind of negative in there. To answer a question on another thread title by Sparky about "why allforums is this way"......here's a good example, right here. Pointless!

Whew.....I feel better....now somebody pass the bong!

Maybe they already did, huuum?:drinktoth

The reason it's not legal is simple. The Government can't regulate it and control every aspect of it. They can't collect every red cent of tax money off of it.

Maybe they already did, huuum?:drinktoth

Well, I somehow got skipped, dammit!

The reason it's not legal is simple. The Government can't regulate it and control every aspect of it. They can't collect every red cent of tax money off of it.

Which is probably why it is better that it isn't legalized, as much as I'd like to see it legalized.

Which is probably why it is better that it isn't legalized, as much as I'd like to see it legalized.

It probably is better that it's not legal, look what the governemnt let the tobacco industry get away with putting in cigarettes which should be just tobacco. Can you imagine how they would screw up our pot.

It probably is better that it's not legal, look what the governemnt let the tobacco industry get away with putting in cigarettes which should be just tobacco. Can you imagine how they would screw up our pot.


No kidding!

It probably is better that it's not legal, look what the governemnt let the tobacco industry get away with putting in cigarettes which should be just tobacco. Can you imagine how they would screw up our pot.

Very true, yet many lessons have been learned through decades of dealing with that industry.

Let the tobacco farmers replace their crop with marijuana plants. Allow schools of agriculture to research the finest ways of growing it. Look at what's been done to improve other cash crops - corn immediately comes to mind as one that has seen tremendous advances in growth, quality and yield per acre. Might the lowly marijuana weed benefit from the attention? Would we enjoy consistency in quality and price?

Very true, yet many lessons have been learned through decades of dealing with that industry.

Let the tobacco farmers replace their crop with marijuana plants. Allow schools of agriculture to research the finest ways of growing it. Look at what's been done to improve other cash crops - corn immediately comes to mind as one that has seen tremendous advances in growth, quality and yield per acre. Might the lowly marijuana weed benefit from the attention? Would we enjoy consistency in quality and price?
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Would we enjoy consistency in quality and price?

ya, crappy quality and high price, leave the weed growing and distribution to the experts, that being the dealers.

ya, crappy quality and high price, leave the weed growing and distribution to the experts, that being the dealers.

Dealers are lousy businessmen - often unreliable and hard to reach, even when one has a "good" connection. Quality is inconsistent. There's certainly room for improvement.

I hope you are not looking for the government to improve anything.

I hope you are not looking for the government to improve anything.

The government would improve things simply by backing off. Send the kops out chasing true criminals.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/keystne3.jpg

so you think dealers would become more reliable if they were not looking over their shoulders? sorry, but they are still potheads, and by definition unreliable.

I hope you are not looking for the government to improve anything.

Nobody else is...

so you think dealers would become more reliable if they were not looking over their shoulders? sorry, but they are still potheads, and by definition unreliable.


Good dealers don't use their own products.

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Nobody else is...

except you with healthcare

except you with healthcare

Thanks for admitting the government can do that better.

:thumbs:

when did I admit that?

when did I admit that?

"Not very bright, are you? " :rolleyes:

show me where I agreed that the government can improve health care genius.

Do you have health insurance Trav?

wtf?

I repeat - Do you have health insurance Trav?

I do

I do

I should have mentioned that Medicaid didn't count.

Do you have private health insurance?

ya, whats your point?

ya, whats your point?

Do you think it has any room for improvement, or do you think your insurance is already perfect?

If not, what would YOU do to improve it?

1910: “Marihuana is the most frightening and vicious drug ever to hit New Orleans.” —New Orleans Public Safety Commission
1920s: “Makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” —H.J. Anslinger, Bureau of Narcotics
1930: “Marihuana is responsible for the raping of white women by crazed negroes.” —Hearst Newspapers Nationwide
1932: “Hasheesh goads users to blood lust.” —Hearst Newspapers
1935: “Marihuana influenced negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows, and look at a white woman twice.” —Hearst Newspapers
1937: “Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.” —Congressional Testimony, H.J. Anslinger, FBN
1938: “Marihuana is more dangerous than heroin or cocaine.” —Anslinger, Scientific American, May, 1938
1938: “If the hideous monster of Frankenstein came face to face with marihuana, he would drop dead of fright.” —Anslinger, FBN, quoted in Hearst newspaper
1937-50: “Negro entertainers with their jazz and swing music are declared an outgrowth of marihuana use which possesses white women to tap their feet.” —statements to Congress by Anslinger, FBN
1945: “More harmful than habit-forming opium, inducing fits of temporary insanity.” —Newsweek, 1-15-45
1946: “Marihuana is an important cause of crime.” —Bureau of Narcotics, Newsweek, 11-18-46
1948: “Marihuana leads to pacifism and Communist brainwashing.” —Anslinger, before Congress
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This clown- H. J. Anslinger (http://www.uccs.edu/~rmelamed/Physics%20of%20Life/Homepage/Marijuana%20and%20Racism.html)- is responsible for the incredibly stupid drug laws that have dogged our society since early in the 20th Century.

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"Marihuana leads to pacifism..."

Oh, the horror!!!
God Forbid!