4 thoughts on “Cops intercept big pot shipment at San Marcos airport”

1. That’s like $1.5 million.

2. Congrats to the cops.
   But on the other hand the “war on drugs” has been a total failure. It needs to be ended. It is bankrupting us and is ruining a number of countries. Legalize, control, & tax drugs as we do alcohol. Prohibition was a huge failure. The “war on drugs” is much worse.

3. Ditto, Charlie … California looks like it will be the lead state in the legalize control and tax initiative … But I must remind
   EVERYONE that it is ACTUALLY an initiative of DE-CRIMINALIZATION, as PRE-WWI pharmacies all across the United States legally sold
   controlled substances across the counter, including COCAINE, HEROIN,
   and a number of OTHER outlawed NARCOTICS. The history lesson is this: the American Medical Society LOBBIED CONGRESS to pass laws
   REQUIRING prescriptions on controlled substances, at the same time
   making a number of substances ILLEGAL (Historical FACT, Jack).

   The end result is that the WAR ON DRUGS has been WAY MORE VIOLENT and DEADLY than was PROHIBITION of Alcohol … And has COST the AMERICAN PUBLIC BILLIONS OF INEFFECTIVE DOLLARS trying to put a stop to SUPPLY AND DEMAND. The only possible way to control the
   problem at this point, or at any other time, is to DECRIMINALIZE
   ALL DRUGS, CONTROL THEIR PRODUCTION, QUALITY, & QUANTITY METES,

   AND TAX THEM TO PAY FOR THE CONTROL PROCESS, which by the way would also include treatment centers for those who still end up addicted BECAUSE they have addictive personalities, NOT because the drugs are
   or are not that addictive if used in a purely recreational manner.
   Let’s not forget those OUTLAWED DRUGS which the AMA prescribes
   to patients now at will, and AT HIGHLY EXCESS PROFIT …

   SO, DECRIMINALIZATION is a slow process, even in this day of easy access to information across our society, BECAUSE doing away with
   LAWS CRIMINALIZING DRUGS WILL PUT MANY COPS & DOCTORS out of work.

   Are you aware of estimates on how much POT is growing in or coming into this country ? I believe “authorities” (ha) have pegged the
   ratio @ 100-to-1 POT making it to market more than that confiscated.

   And let me wrap this up by REMINDING EVERYONE OF ANOTHER FACT:

   POT is a naturally-growing plant, HAS MEDICINAL QUALITIES, and
   is known to produce temporary mind alteration USUALLY PEACEFUL.

   ALCOHOL is MAN-MADE, has produced MILLIONS of violent alcoholics, whom then usually need treatment by the medical profession …

   Anybody beginning to see a PATTERN HERE ?????????????????????????

4. “BECAUSE doing away with
   LAWS CRIMINALIZING DRUGS WILL PUT MANY COPS & DOCTORS out of work.”

   The “War on Drugs” (WOD) has become a huge enterprise with many who benefit from a terrible idea – that we can control illegal drugs. DEA has become a large and expensive organization and those who lead it and those who benefit from it (contractors, for example), do not want it to go away. Our legislators do not have the courage to promote the end of WOD, even in this time of deficit. Grass roots efforts (no pun intended) (and that includes the Tea Party folks) have no chance at forcing real change anymore – vested interests own congress and legislators are OK with that because it gets them re-elected.