Higher Potency Weed...first time offender....gets you up to 25 years in prison?

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I sent dude a longggggggggggg letter about this stupid shit. Possess Kush, or something similar in potency, and get 25 years in the pen? Seriously? Thats like saying that DUI penalties should be more severe if the person drank Hennessy versus beer or wine.

They keep preaching that BS rhetoric that weed is bad and kills you. When it comes to herb, the pros heavily outweigh the cons. And those so called "major cons" have been eliminated with the creation of the vaporizer...so now what? Liquor and Tabacco, which are both wayyyyy worser than weed, and can actually kill u in a shorter amount of time are both leagal, but weed is illegal. Instead of legalizing & taxing Americas #1 cash crop, they rather keep it illegal and continue to lock people up for multiple years on petty drug charges. The percentage of Whites, Blacks, & Latinos weed smokers are damn near leveled out, but when it comes to the percentage of non-violent prisoners that got locked up for either smokin or selling small amounts of weed, Blacks reign supreme. ....go figure! :hmm:


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Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk to push tougher sentences for more-potent marijuana
North Shore Republican to propose legislation setting penalties of up to 25 years in prison for selling 'kush'
By Lisa Black | Tribune reporter
June 15, 2009

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk will call for legislation Monday that would toughen drug-trafficking laws regarding a highly potent form of marijuana, with penalties of up to 25 years in prison for a first-time offense.

The law would target offenders who sell or distribute marijuana that has a THC content exceeding 15 percent, which is between 5 and 10 percentage points higher than average marijuana, according to Kirk's office.

THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main active ingredient in marijuana.

Drug dealers are increasingly cross-breeding plants to produce high-potency variants of marijuana, which are called "kush" in street slang when they have 20 percent THC, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curransaid.



Police have been turning up more of the high-potency marijuana in Lake County arrests, he said.

"When you amplify the strength of it, you are increasing the harm to the system," said Curran, :hmm: who supports the legislation, which would amend a federal law. "They are more dangerous behind the wheel of a vehicle. It's not a good idea to have people that messed up."

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has reported that kush sells for as high as $600 per ounce, creating the same profit potential as crack cocaine, Kirk said.

The Republican North Shore lawmaker said he plans to release more information during a news conference in Chicago on Monday, where he will be joined by representatives from the Lake County Sheriff's Department, the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and Waukegan Police Department.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-kirk-marijuanajun15,0,4381974.story
 
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Very good analogy... My ass would have been under the jail if they caught me under this bullshit standard a few years ago.

I guess driving with a bottle of Everclear in the car should mean death by firing squad...
 
Old world mentality still prevails.
This is a witch hunt plain and simple.
The facts are there and like the op said,the pro's far outweigh the con's,our government knows this this and they are just being hardheaded....or is it more than that,you decide.
Even hemp which contains at best minute traces of thc,enough to maybe get a dust mite high is overlooked as a big step in turning around our economy.
It is still lumped in with marijuana and labeled a harmful drug.:rolleyes:
Why?
One of the few conspiracies I believe that has not or will ever be truly debunked.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm

Protein in hemp or weed seeds contain one of the highest concentrations of crude protein known to man.
Over 50,000 products can be made from hemp.
http://www.panacea-bocaf.org/hempproduction.htm
Imagine the economic boost that would provide and how many jobs that would create.

Ruderalis, a variety of marijuana that can grow just about anywhere,under just about any conditions and climates,is not as well known as its fellow varieties sativa and indica.
It contains a very low percentage of thc.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3033.html
This could be grown in every state in U.S. in mass with very little cost and maintenance.

Growing hemp and marijuana would also greatly impact the environment in a positive way.
http://reason.org/news/show/1002979.html
 
Costanza said:
Very good analogy... My ass would have been under the jail if they caught me under this bullshit standard a few years ago.

I guess driving with a bottle of Everclear in the car should mean death by firing squad...
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:yes:
 
FUCKIN RETARD..

this fool wants to ban that. but what about all the so called legal psych drugs that are literally producing killers...

crazy motherfucker walking the streets lost in the sauce because of some chemical reaction side effect caused by various drugs such as prozac..

making normally passive folks bash ninjas heads in....

hmmmmm do they really care about the citizens, or just those with the biggest wallets.. like big pharmaceuticals that find marijauna a big threat and pay these talking heads like this pussified republican prick mark dirk to do their bidding.
 
Mrfreddygoodbud said:
FUCKIN RETARD..

this fool wants to ban that. but what about all the so called legal psych drugs that are literally producing killers...

crazy motherfucker walking the streets lost in the sauce because of some chemical reaction side effect caused by various drugs such as prozac..

making normally passive folks bash ninjas heads in....

hmmmmm do they really care about the citizens, or just those with the biggest wallets.. like big pharmaceuticals that find marijauna a big threat and pay these talking heads like this pussified republican prick mark dirk to do their bidding.
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Like this shit...

I tried it a few times, never again, that shit can be scary... If we're legislating based on not being able to trust people who use it, there's a whole lotta shit that needs to be banned...
 
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McClatchy Newspapers
By Michael Doyle
Monday, October 19, 2009


WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department said Monday that it would mellow out on prosecuting medical marijuana users in the 13 states in which therapeutic pot smoking is allowed.

Breaking more definitively from the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder formally directed federal prosecutors in Alaska, California, Washington and 13 other medical-marijuana states to refocus investigations on heftier targets.

"It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana," Holder said.

At the same time, Holder stressed that "we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal."

The newly clarified policy amplifies earlier Obama administration statements and puts more muscle behind them. The three-page memo sent to selected U.S. attorneys guides priority-setting for the White House-appointed prosecutors.

"The proof will be in the pudding," Dale Gieringer, the state coordinator of California NORML -- the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws -- said of the new policy directive, but "there has already been a substantial tailing off in the number of federal cases."

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama declared that he wouldn't interfere with individual state decisions to permit prescription marijuana use, and Holder previously voiced similar sentiments. Within weeks of Obama's inauguration, though, federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided several pot dispensaries in Los Angeles.

Medical marijuana raids have occurred in recent months in San Diego, San Francisco and California's rural Lake County.

This year's raids resembled earlier Bush administration DEA raids, raising alarms about whether drug enforcement policies really had changed. An unsuccessful 2005 Supreme Court challenge by Oakland, Calif., resident Angel Raich left federal authorities with the power to prosecute medical-marijuana use even in states that permitted it.

"The FDA has never approved marijuana as safe and effective for any medicinal use," the Bush administration's solicitor general, Paul Clement, advised the court in 2005.

McGregor Scott, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, said in an interview that the new guidance represented no change from the "practical policy" followed under the Bush administration.

"Without exception, the cases we accepted and prosecuted ... involved violations of both state and federal law," Scott said, adding that "(we) focused on the most egregious offenders who were making millions of dollars selling marijuana."

In California, where voters adopted a medical marijuana program in 1996, records show that 24,258 user identification cards have been issued over the past five years. Gieringer, though, estimated that the true number of medical marijuana users in the state is closer to 300,000.

In Washington state, voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998 that permits the possession or cultivation of a personal 60-day supply. It's a different system from that of California, where public dispensaries have proliferated.

"There are not the retail storefronts in Washington," noted Martin Martinez, the executive director of the Seattle-based Cascadia NORML, adding that the Obama administration appears "a little more supportive" than the Bush administration did.

The new policy memo is part of the priority-setting that happens in every new Justice Department. During the Bush administration, for instance, federal prosecutors were encouraged to pursue child pornography and immigration cases.

Now, individuals "with cancer or other serious illnesses who use marijuana as part of a recommended treatment regimen" will not be deemed worthy of prosecution, the policy memo says. Neither are "those caregivers (who) in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state law provide such individuals with marijuana."

"At least this is on paper," Gieringer said, "so perhaps it will make a difference in how (prosecutors) operate."

However, federal raids and prosecutions should continue when other potentially law-breaking circumstances exist, Holder stressed.

The unlawful possession of firearms, "excessive amounts of cash," possession of other controlled substances and questionable financial gains still might provoke prosecution. The policy appears consistent with some high-profile past prosecutions, including a case last year in which two Modesto, Calif., men were convicted of running a major pot dispensary that earned more than $4.5 million.


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