Fourth marijuana conviction gets Slidell man LIFE in prison

Fourth marijuana conviction gets Slidell man life in prison
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/05/fourth_marijuana_conviction_ge.html#incart_hbx


WOW! That is HUGE waste of taxpayers' dollars not to mention just plain stupid!

non-violent offenders!

However, I do not like to be anywhere near marijuana.
I do not want to go to jail.

I'm all for legalizing pot, but until then I stay away.

than we do with pot. Legalize it already. And no, I don't smoke or drink.

one can = big bucks for some. US = "Jailed Nation."

...and has no intention of giving up one cent of them.
Ergo, drugs *MUST* remain illegal so the tax dollars
keep flowing.

It's also helpful that a huge number of African-
American males are currently incarcerated or have
been incarcerated, removing their ability to vote
(likely for Democrats).

Tesha

Here, we have 5% of the world's population yet 25% of the world's prisoners!

the US will just plod along, US = United Stupidity, Inc.

this is wrong, so wrong.

Just out on 5 year probation after his 3rd offense and he's caught with 2 pounds of the stuff along with a digital scale and a dozen baggies already filled with pot?

Someone wasn't too bright.

That is dumber than dogshit, legal or no.

in a room filled with 16 legally growing immature marijauna plants.
What a difference a State makes.




(edited because some were mature a few weeks ago)

if he was just a smoker and it was smaller quantity I could see the outrage, the guy was dealing...after being caught multiple times, plus I dont like the carnage weed causes my friends to the south, rules are rules,change them or play by them!!

That evil fucking weed just causing carnage...Yeah, can't see it bro.
I like pizza after getting baked.
You?
Yes, he was dealing, mid street level if he was using baggies (every one I know here in the NW uses jars any more) but to go from slinging 1/8ths to life in prison, well, just fuck no.

There are far more pressing issues for Louisana to be dealing with.


I personally do not wonder why the South can't have nice things besides its landscape.

I think thats why Uhaul was invented.

Not just no but fuck no.

I was reffering to all the dead people in Mexico, some of which were innocent by standers 2 of which I knew personally, yes carnage every time you smoke out you do your part to encourage the wholesale slaughter of Mexican citizens, some of them deserve to get killed, a lot of them don't!!!

Nope, I do not contribute to any cartels, domestic or otherwise.
I would no more puff mexican weed than shoot myself.
You have me confused with some one else.

Aside from which, all the more reason to legalize it, eh?

Sorry about your 'friends'.
Done here.

the cartels dont own any domestic grow shows?

And I would be remiss if I didn't say welcome to DU and enjoy your stay.

Back to the point you brought up, we do not see mexican weed up here nor any activities of any cartels. Our border brothers up here are hard working, tax paying Americans-regardless of legal status-quite unlike the riff raff that has been allowed to pollute the southern climes.
To the south a bit, there are rumors of border brothers planting on State and Federal lands, ignore these rumors propogated by those who need the money in the law enforcements schemes.
We would not allow it to happen. And I am speaking for every legal and otherwise grower up here.
They wouldn't be able to buy materials, fertilizer, food, gas, tools, nada.
Locals won't sell that stuff to people they don't know and without the basics, you ain't growing shit.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/05/mexican-drug-cartels-in-oregon-and.html

you know we recently had a narcofosa (thats a mass grave ) discovered about an hour and a half from my house, the guy who was in charge of filling it up?? he was raised in Yakima Washington, you might think you have it all shored up safe n sound, I hope your right but I bet your not.

is funded by those who profit from the war on weed.
A thorough Google search turned up.....ZERO busts on Fed or State land by ANYONE here in the Northwest.
Are you following along?
I didn't think so.
I call bullshit on your claims to mass graves any where near your house.
Dare to think for yourself, done here, for some, the lies are easier than the truth.
mfw...

ok, I live in Mcallen Texas, google san fernando tamaulipas in mexico...genius!!
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/grave-48888-san-source.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4826094http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014830371_estrada21.html

takes about an hour and half to drive from Mcallen to San Fernando.

And that means that Mexican cartels are growing weed up here and killing people?
Buddy, you need to get out more. Up here is different. As a society, we seem to be more involved in day to day goings on around us. We speak up.
I see Peter or Pedro growing dope in the woods, armed and polluting and I make phone calls.
It just doesn't happen up here.
I think we are just a bit more civilized than where ever the fuck you are living.
But go on, live in fear, some get used to it, some accept it and some...

i am totally wrong in assuming that your areas are being infiltrated by the cartels, those guys would never set up indoor/outdoor gro shows and meth labs, and that the polite society you live in has no drug/gang problems, my bad, please send map quest directions to your utopia the rest of the country is missing out on.

those who think and act like you to fuck things up for those who live in reality.
You can continue on your merry way to where ever it is you are going.
Done feeding you.
plonk.

I live in Austin. I completely understand what you are talking about.

Every time you buy a tomato, it may have been picked by someone smuggled into the country by MS13! THAT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!!1!!!!1!!!11!!

:rofl: :hi:

and I buy my veggies at a local farmers market. I know the farmer very well. He hires illegals all the time and pays them a living wage.

So you were saying?

You really don't have a clue about MS-13 do you?

"You really don't have a clue about MS-13 do you?"

I know at least as much as you do about the drug trade. :hi:

You have no idea what you are talking about nor do you have any insight regarding the MS-13.

so please try and get down off your "you are just like me" BS because, I can asure you, I am nothing in the least like you.

I always find it amusing by people who think they know everything.

You've threatened to pout off now two or three times, btw. :hi:

PS: I find the Drug Warrior with Hurt Feelings routine quite pathetic! :hi:

really its all utopia up there, no cartels no gangs, meth isnt a problem, they have hot and cold running cool aid and every house comes with your choice of a pony or 2 unicorns!!

heads in the sand

:rofl:

people thinking that their state is immune to Mexican drug gangs because their growers of dope are somehow held to a higher standard and wouldn't "allow" it to happen, evidently its bad if the government profiles but Oregon dope growers can do it just fine!!

"people thinking that their state is immune to Mexican drug gangs..."

Drugs are ALREADY illegal. And yet your gangs thrive in spite of (or, more likely, because of) your senseless prohibition.

You have gotten your way, and yet you still aren't happy. So... What change are you arguing for? Death penalty for the first joint?

That's what we call a "tell" in poker.

OMG--you think the cartels dont own any Joann fabric shops? You MURDER someone every time you crochet!!!!! :silly:

"yes carnage every time you smoke out you do your part to encourage the wholesale slaughter of Mexican citizens"

Bullshit. Prove it! :hi:

www.blogdelnarco.com

It's nice of you to be 'reasonable' enough to understand the outrage at putting a pot smoker in prison for life, though.



You DO realize those are YOUR tax dollars paying to incarcerate this dude, too, don't you?

but if Mexico doesn't, there will still be many people killed.

I don't think pot is the problem.

cocaine sells for big profits, but pot is the bread and butter industry.

While huge shipments are found now and then, virtually every month huge loads of pot are found coming across the boarder.

Living in Texas has given me a huge education in the drug trade.

What I want to know is this: when and if pot is legalized here in the US, how will pot smuggled across the boarder from Mexico be classified?

Frankly, in the real world, I think Mexico will legalize both pot and coke before the US does.

Watch the right wing anti-immigration nuts go into overdrive then. It will become virtually impossible at that point to for pot to become legal in the states as long as the repukes maintain control of the message.

I notice that you PUNTED on the MS13/people smuggling connection, too! YOU have blood on YOUR hands! :silly: :hi:

I didn't punt. As I stated, they smuggle everything. And I refuted your charge regarding how I get my vegetable. So I have no idea what you are saying and frankly, I don't think you know either.

And it appears as if you enjoy being obtuse and not having an adult conversation.

So we are done.

You seem to want the last word. If that makes your day, have at it. I prefer to have a real conversation instead of accusations.

And I know, I know. You COULD make a cogent, logical, and factually supported argument.

You just *don't want to*. :silly:

what are you after? do you have this overwhelming desire to be right? Or do you just refuse to take a persons personal experience from living in an area that his heavily populated by MS-13 as not evidence?

Nor do you care about how I provide information regarding my willing to pay a bit more from a farmer that pays his illegal vegetable pickers a living wage.

I don't know what game you are playing but frankly, I think you are a bit nuts.

So as a result, you may now have the last word and as an added bonus, you will also be ignored.

Have a nice day. Ta! :)

We have presented the same amount of evidence on this matter.

"do you have this overwhelming desire to be right?"

LOL. I've asked you to back up your otherwise naked assertions. If that is "nuts" to you, then you're not ready to participate in a discussion. :shrug:

"Nor do you care about how I provide information regarding my willing to pay a bit more from a farmer that pays his illegal vegetable pickers a living wage. "

That's because this neither backs up your point, above, about the profitability of the Mexican drug trade, nor does it support your broader argument in support of Drug Prohibition.

Crappy, full of stems and seeds.

Unless things have changed significantly since I was in High School.

So long as the Prison-Industrial-Complex has lobbying power.

You want me to feel sorry for someone who was stupid enough to try again after 3 convictions for the the same crime? There are plenty of stupid laws - we don't get to choose which ones are enforced.

...which is exactly the point of this being posted here in the first place.

while I think pot should be legal, I can't bring myself to get outraged when somebody behaves this moronically.

You see these guys on prison shows who have been in jail 5 or 6 times...

You'd think at that point they would realize they aren't very good criminals and should choose another profession.

What do you make of the fact that the best way of predicting if someone will be one of those criminals you view as incompetent is whether a person is socially and economically marginalized and disadvantaged?

Odd that, that and everything else we know about criminology, eh?

before the Lawrence decision? Maybe you would.

I suppose that it doesn't matter that IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S PLACE TO TELL TWO CONSENTING ADULTS THEY CAN'T HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER IN THEIR OWN HOME, nor does it matter that IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S PLACE TO TELL A CONSENTING ADULT THEY CAN'T SMOKE A RELATIVELY HARMLESS PLANT IN THEIR OWN HOME.

I guess THE RULES are THE RULES!

Yay RULES! :eyes:

what a world.

the prison industries needs able bodied men and women you know.

and that marijuana at least should be legalized... this guy fucked up, pure and simple.

One would think that after the 2nd/3rd time, he should have realized that dealing in weed wasn't

the best career choice.

He knew the rules... he knew the game... he knew the consequences, but still chose to take his chances.

He gambled, and he lost.

He has no one to blame but himself.

Civil rights = not for potheads? :shrug:

Silly...