Weed Out The Criminals | Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency
August 31 – The hard working people at the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) are stepping up a campaign to involve the public in bringing down the many marijuana farms that are growing weed in residential areas. According to new figures the SCDEA have seized over £40 million worth of marijuana, enough to cover Parkhead, Ibrox and Hamden football stadiums.
The Government, in their latest quest to miss the point entirely, have asked the public to exercise their “natural senses” and keep an eye out for tell tale signs that a house in your street may be a front for a cannabis farm.
These tell tale signs are fairly standard, blacked out windows, condensation on the windows, Bob Marley music blaring, and my personal favourite is mentioned on the BBC website, “[sic]…another sign is when premises appear unoccupied most of the time but there are people, often of south-east Asian appearance, seen visiting late at night.” Obviously, in context it makes sense, when you know that the vast majority of people arrested in connection with these farms are Chinese or Vietnamese. The point is still being missed.
The point is this. For any Government to spend money on a campaign that has 100% chance of failing is utterly ludicrous. Raising awareness is one thing, but if you end up living next to a weed farm, or indeed you rent a property that ends up being destroyed to grow weed in, then you need only blame your Government and their inability to finally back down and admit that the only way that they have a chance of getting rid of the criminal element is to legalise the drug.
Naturally this isn’t the best solution because from our point of view because politicians are just as crooked as Chinese drug lords, but if the Government here in Scotland was at all interested in winning this “war on drugs” then they will have to back down. Legalize weed and control the quality and strength as they do in Netherlands, because that other option, trying to get citizens to stop smoking it, that option has absolutely no chance.
It is because of the out of date laws that taxpaying citizens are forced to deal with these criminals in order to buy weed. If I had a pound for every horrible flat I had been in, or every lay about drug dealer I have met I could afford to live in Netherlands where the Government takes an adult stance on drugs. However, I did not get a pound, I paid some imbecile to sit about and do nothing all day while I went to work.
All arguments are invalid. This drug is not illegal because of some low percentage of people who suffer psychosis; your Government does not care enough about you for that to be a factor. If that was the case, do you think you could walk into a shop and buy booze or cigs? Sorry to burst the bubble, but it is all made up.
It is all politics; do you think David Nutt was just kidding when he spoke out about the reasons for the illegality of weed and other drugs? He is a Neuropsychopharmacology and psychiatrist, which means he knows more about it than Kenny MacAskill, the media, you or me.
So why do we let politicians run their mouths on this subject. They do not even like to admit that they have smoked it, and always claim that they “didn’t inhale,” and people (who don’t smoke weed) think that this makes them special and worthy of an opinion on the subject. It does not. It makes them a wasteful poser.
In addition, there are too many of them and, more importantly, there are too many of them in a position to make up laws that turn me into a criminal because of something I choose to do in the comfort of my own home. However, booze, yeah, booze is great.
Henry Hunter – WorldNewsVine, Scotland
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Jillian Galloway
August 31, 2010 at 2:26 pm
$113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.
According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., they protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering thousands of innocent people.
If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can’t then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or another, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes – no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue!
To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 “foot soldiers” and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and the longer they’re able to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they get and the more our own personal security is put at risk.
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Becky Bernklow
September 1, 2010 at 6:56 am
Drugs should have been legalized a long time ago…what has taking drugs got to do with politicians? As Jillian says, it only cause violence and encourages criminal activity. If we legalize then the only harm we are doing when taking them is to ourselves, and we are cutting put dealers and pushers etc.
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Bill Harris
September 1, 2010 at 7:03 am
One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to the ongoing open season on hippies, commies, and non-whites in the war on drugs. Cops get good performance reviews for shooting fish in a barrel. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.
Rooting out the number-one cash crop in the land burns tax dollars instead of booking them. Arresting Americans for gardening empowers outlaws to take over Mexico. Political prisoner Marc Emery’s crime was to keep Madame Secretary Clinton’s promise to Calderon. Emery sold seed to American farmers, reducing U. S. demand for Mexican pot.
Prison flushes lives down expensive tubes, paid for by our descendants. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and evil prohibition. The DEA says, “We don’t need no stinking amendment.”
Nixon passed the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies, but he underestimated Schafer’s integrity. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote. Non-placebo sacraments remain prohibited to everybody else. Freedom of Religion, and the free exercise thereof under the First Amendment, applies for all Americans; protecting use of entheogen sacraments to mediate communion. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Puritans sailed to escape coerced religious conformity, only to themselves coerce conformity on Quakers. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.
Common-law holds that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the God-given rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. He paid the price cheerfully for corrupting youths by discussing the unjust hypocrisies of the powerful.
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