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05/05/2008 09:55:19 PM · #126
you can grow one plant of marijuana in your yard in Canada if you own a iguana. (so I have been told by a iguana owner)
05/05/2008 10:12:06 PM · #127
That's a new one to me... can't find anything on it, either. I'd be very skeptical though.
05/05/2008 11:58:07 PM · #128
Originally posted by BeeCee:

That's a new one to me... can't find anything on it, either. I'd be very skeptical though.

I think it's a typo, and also relates only to the sea-dwelling variety native to the Galapagos Islands -- what it really says you can grow in your yard is one mar.iguana ... ;-)
05/06/2008 03:04:48 AM · #129
groannnnn........ :)
05/07/2008 04:47:02 PM · #130
OK- this very well might be the first controversial thread that I started where the majority seemed to agree with me.

So now what to we do ... a GTG to the Senate floor?
05/10/2008 01:29:08 PM · #131
Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests -- NY Times, 5/10/08. A couple of lowlights:

1% of the adult population of the US is incarcerated -- but one in nine African-American males aged 20-34, and one in thirty-six Hispanics.

40% of drug arrests are for marijuana possession.
05/15/2008 11:06:06 AM · #132
It makes you wonder what the "War on Drugs" really means.

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests -- NY Times, 5/10/08. A couple of lowlights:

1% of the adult population of the US is incarcerated -- but one in nine African-American males aged 20-34, and one in thirty-six Hispanics.

40% of drug arrests are for marijuana possession.
05/15/2008 12:06:30 PM · #133
Big money in the war on consensual activities. (Victimless crimes)

"When crimes does pay
Indeed, his Berlin, N.J., company is part of a massive and expanding $37 billion prison economy.

There are more than 2 million inmates serving time in the United States, up from 744,000 in 1985. America has the world's highest incarceration rate, and the revolving door helps keep those prisons packed: A 2002 study by the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 52 percent of released convicts were back in jail within three years.

"All of these things are terrible, but they are good for business," says Martin Roenigk, CEO of CompuDyne (Charts), a security software and hardware provider to the corrections and homeland security markets."

//money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394995/index.htm

Can't stop now too many people are making too much cash! Make pot legal and they lose their Mercedes and 2nd home in Aspen. :-(
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