Oh boy, there goes the weed supply... again...

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almost all the houses are owned by someone in the Nguyen family, crazzzy. they had a nice business going it looks like
 
It says in one of those pics that 1,000 plants are worth $4 million. That means that 250 weed plants go for $1 million. Yea, my ass. I love how off all of their estimates really are.
 
I think the police do "street value" estimates based on selling the drug in it's smallest quantity......ie they'd take that quantity and estimate it based on prices for an eighter (or 3.5g)

something like that anyways
 
becuase then people would get high and hurt people and shit, i know i know they wouldnt but it wont happen because thats what people against it will say.
 
haven't you seen reefer maddness if they legalize it the marijuana addicts will be free to run around rapeing and killing
 
People get drunk and hurt people. Worse.

People smoke cigs and hurt themselves, and other people with second-hand smoke.

People drive cars and hurt themselves and others.

There are so many inherent risks with well...Living. It happens. It's such a cliche and lame rebuttle but it really makes sense. Plus, this was strictly a "marijuana round-up"

If there were harder drugs involved, I could understand all the funding and effort into this, but it was all pot...

They need to fight others things first, including other, more harmful drugs, poverty, hunger, the war, minimum wage, global warming, rape, violent crime, the oil crisis, terrorism, national securite, the mexican immigrant/alien problem, our growing national debt, our trade defecits, our debts to China, our outsourcing problems, our loss of American Jobs, a non-centralized health care, social security, the ever declining worth of the American Dollar, retirement plans, obesity, cancer, diabetes, stem cell reserach, gay marraige, a nationally funded child care system, the global hate for our country, signing the kyoto treaty, make pot a little lower on the priorities list.

Sure that sounds immature because I know the DEA's funding dosen't necessarily take money from the problems above, but it's a "big picture" type of thing. This war is going to cost us over a trillion and a half dollars when it's all said and done...and I've always said a trillion goes a long way.

Actually, if they deleted pot from the world, I wouldn't be such a left-wing, MSNBC-loving, liberal.
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-cronkite/telling-the-truth-about-t_b_16605.html

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly

broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's

the way it is."

To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the

facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or

controversy that may ensue.Sadly, that is not an ethic to which all politicians aspire - least of

all in a time of war.

I remember. I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were

told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after

the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he

knew it was a mistake all along.

Today, our nation is fighting two wars: one abroad and one at home.

While the war in Iraq is in the headlines, the other war is still being

fought on our own streets. Its casualties are the wasted lives of our

own citizens.

I am speaking of the war on drugs.

And I cannot help but wonder how many more lives, and how much more

money, will be wasted before another Robert McNamara admits what is

plain for all to see: the war on drugs is a failure.

While the politicians stutter and stall - while they chase their

losses by claiming we could win this war if only we committed more

resources, jailed more people and knocked down more doors - the Drug

Policy Alliance continues to tell the American people the truth - "the

way it is."

I'm sure that's why you support DPA's mission to end the drug war.

And why I strongly urge you to support their work by giving a generous

donation today.

You see, I've learned first hand that the stakes just couldn't be higher.

When I wanted to understand the truth about the war on drugs, I took

the same approach I did to the war in Vietnam: I hit the streets and

reported the story myself. I sought out the people whose lives this war

has affected.

Allow me to introduce you to some of them.

Nicole Richardson was 18-years-old when her boyfriend, Jeff, sold

nine grams of LSD to undercover federal agents. She had nothing to do

with the sale. There was no reason to believe she was involved in drug

dealing in any way.

But then an agent posing as another dealer called and asked to speak

with Jeff. Nicole replied that he wasn't home, but gave the man a

number where she thought Jeff could be reached.

An innocent gesture? It sounds that way to me. But to federal

prosecutors, simply giving out a phone number made Nicole Richardson

part of a drug dealing conspiracy. Under draconian mandatory minimum

sentences, she was sent to federal prison for ten years without

possibility of parole.

To pile irony on top of injustice, her boyfriend - who actually knew

something about dealing drugs - was able to trade information for a

reduced sentence of five years. Precisely because she knew nothing,

Nicole had nothing with which to barter.

Then there was Jan Warren, a single mother who lived in New Jersey

with her teenage daughter. Pregnant, poor and desperate, Jan agreed to

transport eight ounces of cocaine to a cousin in upstate New York.

Police officers were waiting at the drop-off point, and Jan - five

months pregnant and feeling ill - was cuffed and taken in.

Did she commit a crime? Sure. But what awaited Jan Warren defies

common sense and compassion alike. Under New York's infamous

Rockefeller Drug Laws, Jan - who miscarried soon after the arrest - was

sentenced to 15 years to life. Her teenage daughter was sent away, and

Jan was sent to an eight-by-eight cell.

In Tulia, Texas, an investigator fabricated evidence that sent more

than one out of every ten of the town's African American residents to

jail on trumped-up drug charges in one of the most despicable

travesties of justice this reporter has ever seen.

The federal government has fought terminally ill patients whose

doctors say medical marijuana could provide a modicum of relief from

their suffering - as though a cancer patient who uses marijuana to

relieve the wrenching nausea caused by chemotherapy is somehow a

criminal who threatens the public.

People who do genuinely have a problem with drugs, meanwhile, are being imprisoned when what they really need is treatment.

And what is the impact of this policy?

It surely hasn't made our streets safer. Instead, we have locked up

literally millions of people...disproportionately people of color...who

have caused little or no harm to others - wasting resources that could

be used for counter-terrorism, reducing violent crime, or catching

white-collar criminals.

With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap

phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties

are in a very precarious condition.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on this effort - with no one held accountable for its failure.

Amid the clichés of the drug war, our country has lost sight of the

scientific facts. Amid the frantic rhetoric of our leaders, we've

become blind to reality: The war on drugs, as it is currently fought,

is too expensive, and too inhumane.

But nothing will change until someone has the courage to stand up

and say what so many politicians privately know: The war on drugs has

failed.

That's where the Drug Policy Alliance comes in.

From Capitol Hill to statehouses to the media, DPA counters the

hysteria of the drug war with thoughtful, accurate analysis about the

true dangers of drugs, and by fighting for desperately needed

on-the-ground reforms.

They are the ones who've played the lead role in making marijuana

legally available for medical purposes in states across the country.

California's Proposition 36, the single biggest piece of sentencing

reform in theUnited States since the repeal of Prohibition, is the

result of their good work. The initiative is now in its fifth year,

having diverted more than 125,000 people from prison and into treatment

since its inception.

They oppose mandatory-minimum laws that force judges to send people

like Nicole Richardson and Jan Warren to prison for years, with no

regard for their character or the circumstances of their lives. And

their work gets results: thanks in large part to DPA, New York has

taken the first steps towards reforming the draconian Rockefeller Drug

Laws under which Jan was sentenced.

In these and so many other ways, DPA is working to end the war on

drugs and replace it with a new drug policy based on science,

compassion, health and human rights.

DPA is a leading, mainstream, respected and effective organization that gets real results.

But they can't do it alone.

That's why I urge you to send as generous a contribution as you possibly can to the Drug Policy Alliance.

Americans are paying too high a price in lives and liberty for a

failing war on drugs about which our leaders have lost all sense of

proportion. The Drug Policy Alliance is the one organization telling

the truth. They need you with them every step of the way.

And that's the way it is.

-Walter Kronkite
 
they were trying to do busts in durham this summer but never got anywhere beyond threatening people, but there's been a BUNCH in NH lately.
 
Fuck marrijuanna drug busts cops need to get illegals out of here first I mean who really cares about weed its not fucken heroin
 
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