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    Kony TornheiserAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:50pm

    Still, even going off what they were trying to say, it’s incredibly shitty logic.

    “youth who use marijuana are likelier than those who do not to be arrested and arrested repeatedly. The earlier an individual, the likelier he or she is to be arrested.”

    It’s similar to weed being painted as a gateway drug. Correlation does not equal causation. Yes, a 14 year old that smokes pot is probably more likely to get in trouble for other transgressions, but not because he smoked pot. I smoked pot when I was 15. I also drank. I pretty much tried to get my hands on whatever would fuck me up. I also did other dumb shit that could have gotten me arrested (and did). But if pot didn’t exist, it simply would have been something else.

    It’s truly amazing that we’re still debating whether pot should be legal. My parents are 62 year old, straight-laced conservative individuals, and even they think it’s stupid that pot is illegal. If my parents are pro-legalization, this argument is over.

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      BobbySeriousKony Tornheiser
      8/16/16 12:54pm

      I do think there is some truth to pot being a gateway drug, but not because of pot itself, but because it being illegal. Meaning I think when you cross that mental line of doing something illegal, you are more likely to do it again, and perhaps up the ante, try other illegal things and so on.

      For example, purely anecdotal, but most people I know either “did drugs” or didn’t. There was a line they either crossed or didn’t.

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      Masshole JamesKony Tornheiser
      8/16/16 12:55pm
      GIF
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    Endless Supply of CynicismAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:56pm

    The DEA Position on Marijuana, a 2011 document recently obtained by MuckRock in response to a FOIA request.

    Why is the DEA position a secret that needs to be uncovered anyway? Shouldn’t it be public information?

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      Mr.PeepersEndless Supply of Cynicism
      8/16/16 1:01pm

      Not if the administration is run by a black Democrat pretending to be progressive and against the kinds of laws that cause mass incarcerations of minorities and the poor. But we see that it's business as usual.

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      Ka Mai - New and ImprovedMr.Peepers
      8/16/16 1:04pm

      Right, that’s the reason. Obama. We all know the government was a pillar of transparency before he took office, amirite?

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:45pm

    I’m sorry, but the marijuanas are destroying our youths. Just look at what it’s done to John Mayer:

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      Sparky PolastryHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      8/16/16 12:48pm

      Haha I thought that was Johnny Depp....and Chris Klein on the left

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeSparky Polastry
      8/16/16 12:50pm

      It’s K.D. Lang and Gustave Corbet.

      DUH!

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    Sparky PolastryAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:47pm

    Wait....so, don’t smoke weed, or you’ll be arrested for shoplifting?

    Got it

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      toothpetardSparky Polastry
      8/16/16 12:49pm

      I’ve been smoking weed wrong all these years.

      GIF
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      Sobchak SecuritySparky Polastry
      8/16/16 12:50pm

      You’re entering a world of pain son. We know that these are your marijuanas. We know you stole a car. You’re killing your father Sparky.

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    BobbySeriousAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:46pm

    Yeah, and people who get drunk every day do swimmingly in life.

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      JonKneeVBobbySerious
      8/16/16 12:51pm

      Alcohol has the fortune of being regulated by the ATF because alcohol is not a drug. Or so they say.

      Sidenote: DEA lists marijuana as a “hallucinogen”. https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/facts…

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      Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman EmpireBobbySerious
      8/16/16 12:52pm

      I do alright for myself.

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    Wile_EAndy Cush
    8/16/16 1:01pm

    Legalize EVERYTHING. All the drugs.

    The War on Drugs has:

    1. Cost BILLIONS of dollars.

    2. Put a large percentage of the population in jail for non-violent crimes.

    3. Never stopped one person from getting high on the drug of their choice.

    Making drugs illegal has:

    1. Greatly increased organized crime and gang activity.

    2. Greatly increased the popularity of each drug banned.

    Make all drugs legal. Divert money from law enforcement to treatment and education programs. Cut off the funding of organized crime and gangs. Stop putting thousands of people in jail for non-violent drug related offenses.

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      Raaaaaaaadaniel ChicagoWile_E
      8/16/16 1:20pm

      I keep thinking about all the shootings in Chicago and how FUCKING FAST we can put a big stop to the gang violence by taking away that ONE WEIRD TRICK they have to making money....DRUGZ.

      Yes, control the distribution of heroin, crack, cocaine, meth, and weed and try to divert users and/or addicts of the heavier stuff into treatment programs, and WAM, there are going to be way less shootings on the South, Southwest, and West sides of my city.

      But, nah..... That would be way cheaper and more effective.

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      Wile_ERaaaaaaaadaniel Chicago
      8/16/16 1:28pm

      Exactly. Every one of those guns is an illegal one. How do they pay for them? how do they pay someone to make a strawman purchase in another state and smuggle them illegally into Chicago? Drug money.

      Why are they fighting in the first place? Turf war over who gets to sell their drugs where.

      Want to hit them with a one-two punch? Make all sex work legal too and end the need for pimps and illegal brothels.

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    OssmidAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:47pm

    I always wonder if, organizationally, the DEA and the CIA got together and were like “Hey, lets just be terrible at everything. Lets just completely fuck up everything we touch.”

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      toothpetardOssmid
      8/16/16 12:51pm

      “You’re very severe,” said the chairman, “but multiply your severity by a thousand and it will still be as nothing compared with the severity that the authorities show toward themselves. Only a total stranger could ask such a question. Are there control agencies? There are only control agencies. Of course they aren’t meant to find errors, in the vulgar sense of that term, since no errors occur, and even if an error does occur, as in your case, who can finally say that it is an error.”

      Ah, Kafka

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      crouching tigerOssmid
      8/16/16 12:58pm

      The FBI was definitely part of that conversation.

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    det-devil-ailsAndy Cush
    8/16/16 1:22pm

    Most disturbingly, jazz musicians from Uptown will come down here and start seducing our white womenfolk.

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      Darmok eats Challah at 12Nagradet-devil-ails
      8/16/16 1:35pm

      You know that Dixieland Jazz is not good for dancing.

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      det-devil-ailsDarmok eats Challah at 12Nagra
      8/16/16 1:40pm

      ‘“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., 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.” “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” - Harry Anslinger, progenitor of the modern drug war.

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    Brian, The Life ofAndy Cush
    8/16/16 12:55pm

    “We should keep weed illegal because we’ll lose budget if we don’t” - DEA

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      Pedestrian2000Brian, The Life of
      8/16/16 1:16pm

      Yep. Alternate headline suggestion,

      DEA Supports Continuing Policies that Support the Relevancy of the DEA.

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    Frankenbike666Andy Cush
    8/16/16 1:40pm

    The DEA should have NO SAY in drug enforcement policy. This should be a civilian decision only. The job of cops is to enforce the law, not write the law. In career self interest, law enforcement wants as many laws that entrap as many people as possible, and should not be given the opportunity to act in their own self interest against citizens.

    The days of the DEA getting away with this are coming to a close. They’ve gotten away with this because old people had no experience with marijuana themselves. I see a lot of old people at the collective I go to in California. By old, I’m not saying 40s and 50s, I mean 70s and 80s.

    Most are using it for pain management, some actually do have glaucoma and macular degeneration. But a few use it for depression and prefer it to pharmaceuticals, because the side effects of pot are more manageable. And some just say that getting old sucks, and when they get high they actually look outside and think “it’s a nice day to go out walking”, rather than stay inside and watch cable news on TV all day.

    Needless to say, the pharmaceutical industry is well aware of this. As is the alcohol industry, which likes depressed old people drinking themselves into a stupor.

    And the DEA draws ALL of its management from law enforcement. Their sympathies lie with the law enforcement officers that would no longer be needed once marijuana is legal and regulated (it moves into ATF territory, or ATFM as it would have to be renamed). Their whole careers have had them indoctrinated in a lie, their employers made them believe the lies.

    You cannot allow the fox to control the henhouse.


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