"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Clueless Skanky wrote:
> >>>There's no addiction. Whenever
> >>>I don't smoke for a week or so,
> >>>there is no withdrawal, no longing,
> >>>etc. So drop the addiction bullshit
> >>>before I have to smack you or
> >>>something.
> >>
> >>Take "The Responsible Drug User's Oath" and then
> >>ignore him, if you agree with it want to, of course.
> >>http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclop...-User%27s-Oath
> >
> > That's a very good oath and one
> > I agree with totally.
>
> Then why did you qualify #12 with what you BELIEVE (perception) rather
> than FACTS (reality)?
>
> > As for number 12 though, I can only take the info
> > secondhand that there's no violence involved in the growing.
>
> "We're definitely seeing more violence," explains Mr. Benson,
> who recently oversaw a year long, cross- border sting called
> Operation Hockey Bag, in which investigators charged 22 people
> and seized more than 400 lbs. of marijuana, along with $3.4
> million and a dozen firearms. "It's not just weapons - it's what
> we're seeing from the organization. They rule and intimidate
> from within."
>
> RCMP investigators are still sifting through the evidence,
> trying to find out what led to the killing of the four officers
> last week. The incident began as an attempt to repossess a
> pickup truck but ballooned into a larger investigation after the
> marijuana growing operation was discovered. The gunman, Jim
> Roszko, killed the officers and later turned a high-powered,
> semiautomatic weapon on himself.
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0311/p01s03-woam.html
>
> "This illegal activity feeds drug use, guns and violence in the
> province," said Algar.
>
> "Anyone who claims that grow-ops are benign simply has not seen
> what the police see in these grow homes, and has not experienced
> what we've experienced in dealing with these public menaces."
>
> Community Safety Minister Monte Kwinter echoed Elgar's call for
> more assistance from private companies and individuals in
> dealing with grow houses, which often set up in residential
> neighbourhoods with stolen electricity that poses a serious fire
> risk.
> http://tinyurl.com/aj2vk
>
> And that doesn't even touch on the fact that a lot of the pot being sold
> in Canada is imported from Mexico, where violence along the Texas border
> continues to escalate.
> http://www.cbs13kvtv.com/news/headlines/1652956.html
>
> > As far as I know, all pot in Ontario
> > is grown locally
>
> Wrong.
>
> > and nonviolently,
>
> VERY wrong.
>
> > but I can't swear to it,
>
> No shit.
>
> > as I've never been inside a growhouse.
>
> Hardly surprising, given your clueless urbanite views about agriculture
> in general.

Time to hold a vote. All those who
think Usual Idiot should himself
imbibe in something relaxing so
that he won't be so uptight and
annoying, raise your hands.


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