[Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?

[lfalen]

Forfeiture laws are unconstitutional and should be challenged.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:53:11 -0700
To: "'lfalen'" lfalen at turbonet.com, "'Tom Hansen'" thansen at moscow.com, "'keely emerinemix'" kjajmix1 at msn.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?

> Author Michael Pollan wrote a really interesting article in the center
> spread of Atlantic Monthly about 12 years ago. It was about growing those
> gorgeous P. somniferum poppies in your garden, and how the government can,
> if you grow these, legally confiscate your house with no due process
> whatsoever. In the article, Pollan points out that the government actually
> does NOT WISH TO LEGALIZE some of these inane drugs for certain peculiar and
> special reasons, one so that they can take your house away if they really
> need to do so. Specifically, the article covered Papaver somniferum, which I
> used to grow extensively... the big puffy pink one. Turns out that it is
> more or less tolerated by authorities until you start doing stuff they don't
> like (like protesting Megaloads or things like that), or if you actually
> know what it is that is growing in your garden. No kidding. The garden
> cultivars have essentially no active chemicals whatsoever to speak of, but
> you can get busted anyway.... just because you can't stop the gov from doing
> so. Catch 22 for real. P. somniferum is not to be confused with the large
> perennial Papaver orientalis that most people have around town in abundance.
> (Aside for avid gardeners: I used to get a seed catalog from Britain that
> sold Papaver somniferum under the name of P. paeonioflorum (actually a
> subvariety of P. somniferum anyway). They finally got the elbow nudge from
> the U.S. authorities so now you can't buy them any more. They had some great
> color varieties too! Darn. European society isn't as stupid and repressive
> as in the U.S. so you can grow all kinds of things over there. By the way,
> morning glory vine seeds produce a powerful LSD-like high (and nausea), but
> how come they are 100% legal to grow? My favorite variety.... "Pearly Gates"
> (for the flowers only).)
> 
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of lfalen
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 3:11 PM
> To: Tom Hansen; keely emerinemix
> Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?
> 
> I agree, it makes no sense not to. I think that this is one reason Ron Paul
> has so much support.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:36:50 -0700
> To: keely emerinemix kjajmix1 at msn.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?
> 
> > Do you realize that 60% of the Mexican drug cartel's bottom line comes
> from the sale of marijuana in the U.S.?
> > 
> > Do you really want to put a major hurt on the Mexican drug cartel while,
> at the same time, converting a stateside money-coster into money-maker,
> simple:
> > 
> > MARIJUANA . . .
> > 
> > LEGALIZE IT ! . . . . . . . . . . REGULATE IT ! . . . . . . . . . . TAX IT
> !
> > 
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> > 
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> > 
> > "If not us, who?
> > If not now, when?"
> > 
> > - Unknown
> > 
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