Re: 3 garden invasions in 6 months

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

JoeRaisin wrote:
> Jim Rojas wrote:
>> I have been telling everyone I know for years that our Government
>> should allow the sale of Marijuana, and any other minor drugs through
>> normal pharmacy distribution channels. This may eliminate some of the
>> street violence for the drugs, get rid of more than half of the drug
>> dealers, and clean up the streets, and at the same time, the
>> government can collect sales tax on it all. It will empty our jails
>> for most serious criminal offenses, and put some taxpayers back on the
>> street.
>>
>> Afterall, alcohol has done more damage to this country than all the
>> street drugs combined, yet you can buy alcohol at any quicky mart all
>> over the country. Cigarettes are still for sale everywhere even though
>> we all know that gives you cancer...so what gives?
>>
>> Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc., should hand our free needles
>> and spoons to heroin addicts. Companies love giving away free blood
>> meters like it was candy, medicaid gives away $5000 scooters to anyone
>> over 50. Why not help us cut down the spread of AIDS by giving addicts
>> what the need? Or help them get off it if they really want to?
>> Methadone doesnt work, you are just trading one bad habit for another,
>> but barely legal pharmices are making a fortune on other people's
>> attempt to kick the habit.
>>
>> I say give prostitutes a street vendors business license, and they
>> will be required to carry liability insurance, and a basic medical
>> plan, just like any other business. Aren't we all considered whores in
>> one form or another in our own respective businesses?
>>
>> Many countries have red light districts. Japan has the most brothels
>> per capita in the entire world. Yet Japan collects taxes on it all.
>> Why shouldn't we do the same? These places would not exist if there
>> wasn't a huge market for it.
>>
>> Why can't I bet on professional sports at my local OTB? Are you
>> telling me the corruption already in place may get even worse? We bet
>> on horses, dogs, lottery tickets, scratch offs, bingo, etc...hell, we
>> can clean up just on soccer matches.
>>
>> Our country has lost its way. It is obvious that predatory home
>> lending practices were not the answer. Let's try something new. Tax
>> people for what the need, want, and use, no matter what their petty
>> vices are.
>>
>> End of rant for now.
>>
>> Jim Rojas
>
> If you would more rantables regarding the legalization of Marijuana -
> Here is some information on industrial hemp and all that it could
> contribute to the welfare of the world.
>
> After reading the Wiki article just imagine if we were to grow enough
> hemp to really help out in the fuel area and considering that it could
> be grown in all the unproductive areas that other plants consider
> hostile as well as a fallow year crop in productive areas, just imagine
> how much of the high protein seed cake would be left over from the oil
> squeezing - world hunger would be pretty much solved.
>
> We would no longer be getting fuel from a food crop - but food would be
> a by-product of the fuel production...

Okay - I got so carried away that I forgot to post the link.

And it wasn't for the reasons you think... ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp