Marijuana bust on Greene & Cocke county line

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  The authorities don’t have any valid arguments against pot, their purpose in opposing legalization is to prevent any chinks in the armour, or cracks in the wall of prohibition. All propaganda against drug usage is false and/or misleading.

The authorities likewise don’t give a stuff about what any particular drug does. The stance that pot is a dangerous drug of abuse is only a surface excuse, propaganda for the masses. Marijuana was made illegal in the 1937 to remove a threat to the synthetic fibers made by DuPont, just as the same company has connived a ban on Freon, now that their patent on it has run out, under the pretense that it is “harming the ozone”—a claim completely without any proof whatsoever. DuPont has never had any interest in the welfare of people.

The only real function of the drug prohibition is to create a black market trade, otherwise known as “money for nothing”.
The addition of any particular drug to the prohibition is a matter of the same policies which will maintain the illegality of all drugs to the bitter end.

The drug trade is now the single biggest money operation in the US economy, and the money it produces is used to see to it that the laws will not change.

Pot isn’t even important to those in the big-money drug trade, except for maintaining a solid wall of prohibition, the same reason noted above for the uselessness of proving scientific merit for the use of any prohibited drug. Money does indeed drive these things, which is why you have no chance to change anything No one gives a minute’s notice to thoughts of “hypocrisy”. It isn’t a question of what’s “good for you” or “what’s bad for you”. Alcohol is not as good a way to create money-for-nothing as heroin and cocaine (too easy to make at home), plus it was put outside the rules by the repeal of Prohibition.

If it were not for your voting rights being taken after becoming a convicted felon we might be able to at least elect “like minded” local officials and basically ignore the"corporate government” that herds the “sheeple masses” in what ever direction is most profitable for what ever lobbyist is holding the strings.

10-15 years for a joint? Great idea! Then let’s start cutting off hands of thieves. In fact, let’s adopt the penal system of many Muslim countries. Now there is some law and order for ya! Nothing like a scared populace to keep the peace.

There is ZERO reason to blame the police for doing their jobs.If your boss told you to do something according to the current law you better do it or you are without a job and maybe face criminal charges.It is asinine to blame the police or sheriffs dept. for enforcing current law and doing their jobs,no matter how ridiculous the law.Plain stupid.
  That said,most law enforcement officers would agree with the previous post,excepting the ridiculous reference to nazi storm troopers.
They know better than the average citizen"know it all” that the most dangerous and life threatening calls they face involve ALCOHOL and NEVER marijuana usage.DUI’s,domestic assaults,etc.are never infused by marijuana usage,but you can bet the farm alcohol is involved the majority of the time.
We need to quit the blatant hypocrisy and legalize and regulate the sale and distribution of marijuana.The sooner the better.

Itsme-in countries where alcohol is not taboo and the drinking age is lower, there is less instance of alcoholism and underage drinking. Take the taboo out of it, you take away the appeal for young people. I feel the same would ring true for marijuana. Not to mention that I guarantee you that it’s much easier to get marijuana as a teenager than it is alcohol. Why? Because alcohol is regulated and therefor it is harder to get because there are laws governing its sale. Marijuana on the other hand, is not regulated and therefor those who sell it aren’t going to normally tell someone no, they’re too young. If its out in the open its under public scrutiny.

When it comes to other drugs that are no doubt harder and more damaging, the “gateway” drug theory doesn’t hold with me or many others. People who do harder drugs don’t tend to stick with pot, because its not the type of high they’re chasing-thats why they “move on”. We could use the argument “people who own guns are more likely to go out and kill people with them!“. While this is true, that doesn’t mean everyone who own a gun, nor even a majority of those who own guns, are going to go shoot someone for fun-right? Well the majority of “pot heads” are just that, pot heads. Those who choose to do other harder drugs would do so whether or not they had ever touched marijuana.

The argument that marijuana legalization opens the door for other drug legalization is only partially correct. It all a matter of commonsense, if we care to use it as a country. At the end of the day it might easier to allow medical monitoring of addicted patients and find solutions to the desire to chase the dragon, so to speak. I would much rather see my tax money going to help people get clean so they can lead a productive life than throwing people in jail where it’s almost as easy to get the drugs that put them there to begin with, creating a vicious cycle and in the end helping no one.

People in this country are sheep when it comes to drug laws-if the gov’t says its so then baaa baaa baaa. More people need to break away from the herd and think for themselves. Too many people have stopped using their commonsense and it’s atrophied their minds.

10-15 years for getting high? Yeah, someone getting stoned is totally not worth my tax money to keep their butts behind bars for 10-15. How absurd.

Why is someone getting a buzz from weed any different morally-because physically there is a huge difference, when was the last time you heard of marijuana poisoning, hmmm?-than getting a buzz from a few beers? As long as they’re not infringing on anyone else rights why should any one else give a rat’s behind? So we can see our tax dollars go bye bye because some government bully decided marijuana=bad while alcohol=hunky dory? I’d like to pass on that option, thanks but no thanks. I don’t partake, but I don’t want my tax dollars imprisoning those who do.