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Marijuana growers are dangerous terrorists

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:30 pm
by Ryoki
http://redding.com/news/2007/jul/13/dru ... s-warning/
The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.

John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort.

"Don't buy drugs. They fund violence and terror," he said.
Awesome, such bewildering complete and utter madness :olo:
This guy reminds me of Dr. Bloomquist from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I didn't even know they made this particular type of human anymore... thought his kind went extinct back in the early sixties.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:41 pm
by scared?
u see...everything bad according to the govt is now al qaeda...unless ur a moron like rook...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:56 pm
by Grudge
ffs

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:59 pm
by Grudge
also, funny thing how since the US "liberated" Afghanistan from the Taliban, the opium growers are flooding the world's drug markets with an abundance of cheap heroin

go USA!

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:05 pm
by scared?
heroin is freedom juice...thats different...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:14 pm
by Ryoki
About the heroin: plans for buying the stuff up and reselling it to medical companies, or simply buying up supply and destroying it has been floating around since the invasion. I can't grasp why they don't act on it.

Instead they go around and burn the occasional poppy field and antagonize random dirtpoor farmers. Idiots.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:16 pm
by scared?
cmon dumbo...they are using the poppy to fund the wars and black projects...duh...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:20 pm
by Ryoki
I don't know about that to be honest.

But i have entertained the thought of the coalition not effectively handeling the situation to create excuses for remaining in Afghanistan indefenitely.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:22 pm
by scared?
why wouldn't they? they have been doing it for 30 years...all of a sudden they would stop? for osama?...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:28 pm
by Ryoki
It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.

Think of all the tedious goddamn micromanagement you'd have to go through. You'd have to buy off everyone, defend your drugstooge's territory, make sure everything runs smoothly and for what exactly? A couple of billion? There's a lot more money to be made in embezzeling reconstruction effort funds and selling oil transport rights to multinationals, surely.

*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:37 pm
by Fender
Ryoki wrote:It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.
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*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.
Heroin can easily be a $100 a day habit.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:39 pm
by Ryoki
Wise man say: The bestest criminal is he who makes it appear legal!

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:39 pm
by Tsakali_
Fender wrote:
Ryoki wrote:It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.
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*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.
Heroin can easily be a $100 a day habit.
yeah but not for long

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:42 pm
by scared?
heroin is bigger than ever in the usa...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:43 pm
by Ryoki
Fender wrote:Heroin can easily be a $100 a day habit.
But the US is about the furthest away from the Opium line. May take a while before the inflation sets in.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:46 pm
by scared?
its a small world now...and there r these things called ships...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:50 pm
by Fender
Tsakali_ wrote:yeah but not for long
What's that supposed to mean? You can't physically maintain that level? Prices are going up? Down? Make sense.

I have a buddy that did it at about that level for 4 years. He's been on methadone for nearly 2 years now, but I think he's ramping down his dosage.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:51 pm
by seremtan
perhaps al-qa'eda should fly a plane loaded with ganj into a building so when it goes up everyone will get terrorist munchies

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:52 pm
by obsidian
They haven't crushed the opium trade in Afghanistan because there is little or no other form of employment for the locals. The U.S. should be the one handling the matter, building the country back up but because they decided to invade Iraq before actually fixing things in Afghanistan first, they now have their hands full. The coalition forces just don't have manpower and resources to do what they need to. The U.N. is now a crumbling useless relic of what it used to be.

I'm not saying that there aren't possibly other reasons why they haven't fixed the Middle East by now. Especially given the amount of war profiteering going on with Iraq. The powers that be are sucking it all up.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:54 pm
by Tsakali_
Fender wrote:
Tsakali_ wrote:yeah but not for long
What's that supposed to mean? You can't physically maintain that level? Prices are going up? Down? Make sense.

I have a buddy that did it at about that level for 4 years. He's been on methadone for nearly 2 years now, but I think he's ramping down his dosage.
i just don't see anyone on tha shit be productive in any level. I suspect that they would simply run out of resources to continue that type of lifestyle...I'm not talking about the well off who are progressively destructing their good fortune.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:03 pm
by Fender
His productivity did suffer quite a bit. That's one of the reasons he left his job here. Even after he cleaned up, people still had the perception that he wasn't a good resource and he had to move on to get a clean slate.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:19 pm
by i think i am
lol inflation in the drug market. heroin is still huge. every drug has a market and the drug world isn't run like the real world.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:15 pm
by Duhard
So I'm a dangerous terrorist?...lol time to grow up kiddos, there were things going on in this world long before you were born...14 years ago..

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:15 pm
by Hannibal
ffs "Alesia". Caesar just took a massive dump in the afterlife.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:16 pm
by Dr_Watson
coke needs to make a comeback so the "drug czar" can back the fuck off of weed.
soon as i can get my hands on some seed i'll certainly join the turrorists. unfortunately the canadian border isn't as porus as it used to be, so quality supply has been dwindling around these parts.
most of the local grow is "lifestyle" hippie shwag. >:E

at any rate... if the ONDCP wants to attack anything, they should really wise up and go after meth.
that shit is pure evil.