Authorities discover and destroy 1,000 marijuana plants east of Crown King

[MSGT]

CLEATOR - Local, state and federal authorities Sept. 6 discovered a cultivated marijuana crop in the rugged terrain of Horse Thief Canyon east of Crown King.

The plantation at the bottom of the canyon and along its walls contained at least 1,000 thriving plants between two and three feet tall. Law enforcement took out a portion of the crop and burned it near Antelope Creek Road, about 15 miles from the canyon.

Then they all stood in line downwind to get high.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="232"><tbody><tr valign="top"> <td align="left" width="232"> http://bigbugnews.com/SiteImages/Article/11362a.jpg </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td align="center" width="232">Officers from Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency bring the first load of marijuana plants to a waiting fire Sept. 6 near Cleator. BB / CCN Photo / Jo. L. Keener</td></tr></tbody></table>

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[DesertFox]

I'd wondered why I always felt light-headed driving past there.

[DeclinetoState]

Then they all stood in line downwind to get high.
Unless that pic has been photoshopped, such certainly appears to be the case.

[Ant]

How stupid is it to outlaw a plant?

[Wolfcounsel]

"How stupid is it to outlaw a plant?" --Ant

Well, let me see. Ask any anti-gun weenie the same thing--how stupid is it to outlaw a gun? Liberal Kumbaya singers do it constantly, or try to do it.

[Ant]

"How stupid is it to outlaw a plant?" --Ant

Well, let me see. Ask any anti-gun weenie the same thing--how stupid is it to outlaw a gun? Liberal Kumbaya singers do it constantly, or try to do it.

anti-gun laws = stupid
anti-plant laws = stupid

Two stupids don't equal a smart... or something like that.

[heikediguoren]

The architect of the anti-marijuana laws describes his reasoning here:


Not long ago the body of a young girl lay crushed on the sidewalk after a plunge from a Chicago apartment window. Everyone called it suicide, but actually it was murder. The killer was a narcotic known to America as marijuana, and to history as hashish.

Used in the form of cigarettes, it is comparatively new to the United States and as dangerous as a coiled rattlesnake. How many murders, suicides, and maniacal deeds it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured.

http://www.cannabis.net/assassin-of-youth.html

and here:


This drug is as old as civilization itself. Homer wrote about, as a drug that made me forget their homes, and that turned them into swine. In Persia, a thousand years before Christ, there was a religious and military order founded which was called the Assassins and they derived their name from the drug called hashish which is now known in this country as marihuana. They were noted for their acts of cruelty, and the word "assassin" very aptly describes the drug.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/anslng1.htm

Apparently, marijuana is responsible for Middle Eastern terrorism.

[Timberwolf]

Too bad the clueless individual you quote has no personal experience with "weed". I know of NO ONE who has become even slightly suicidal, homocidal, or any other 'cidal...I've heard and experienced severe munchies, but that's it. Oh, and the ONLY people on the face of the planet who were at risk of any violence were pizza delivery guys (but, they alway knew who robbed them...LOL).

Upon futher investigation, I'll bet those who died as a result of weed, did so because it was laced with something else...guaranteed.

[ConspiracyBuff]

Umm... There is 0 dead people as a result of marijuana. There is no plausible reason for it's being outlawed. Niccotine kills brain-cell's, carbon monoxide does too. Alcohol damages dendrites-the branched ends of nerve cells that bring messages into the cell. Alcohol surely affects the brain, as we all know, causing slurred speech, clumsiness, slow reflexes, and a loss of inhibition. Alcohol changes nerve structure- we are all aware that alcohol and alcoholism kill with alot of health complications. The 2003 numbers:
Mortality
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/images/bullet.gifNumber of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 20,687
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/images/bullet.gifNumber of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 12,360
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/alcohol.htm
Now that is only accounting for liver disease, not even the any number of medical issues which arise.

Bottom line.There is no reason to outlaw a naturally growing plant while allowing man-made poisons to be perfectably acceptable, when in fact they are just as bad and IMHO worse. It should be up to the individual to do it responsibly and on their own time. It just seems more complicated then it has to be when 60% of drug related arrests are for marijuana; using up tax dollars and really completing very little. Im for fines which would actually make money and save headaches whilst not making everything seem so hypocritcal. That's all.

[Republican_Legion]

Upon futher investigation, I'll bet those who died as a result of weed, did so because it was laced with something else...guaranteed.

I almost died of it. To this day I will never touch weed, I tried it once and it was laced with cocaine/crack or something and combined with my anxiety I already have It almost killed me by heartattack. In the hospital they had to give me charcoal to drink down to get it outa my system.

[Republican_Legion]

Umm... There is 0 dead people as a result of marijuana. There is no plausible reason for it's being outlawed. Niccotine kills brain-cell's, carbon monoxide does too. Alcohol damages dendrites-the branched ends of nerve cells that bring messages into the cell. Alcohol surely affects the brain, as we all know, causing slurred speech, clumsiness, slow reflexes, and a loss of inhibition. Alcohol changes nerve structure- we are all aware that alcohol and alcoholism kill with alot of health complications. The 2003 numbers:
Mortality
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/images/bullet.gifNumber of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 20,687
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/images/bullet.gifNumber of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 12,360
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/alcohol.htm
Now that is only accounting for liver disease, not even the any number of medical issues which arise.

Bottom line.There is no reason to outlaw a naturally growing plant while allowing man-made poisons to be perfectably acceptable, when in fact they are just as bad and IMHO worse. It should be up to the individual to do it responsibly and on their own time. It just seems more complicated then it has to be when 60% of drug related arrests are for marijuana; using up tax dollars and really completing very little. Im for fines which would actually make money and save headaches whilst not making everything seem so hypocritcal. That's all.

Dont forget that marijuana sellers get longer prison sentences then Pedophiles.

[DesertFox]

There is every reason to outlaw marijuana. For my money, selling should be a capital crime and using a 10-year mandatory sentence.

[heikediguoren]

Too bad the clueless individual you quote has no personal experience with "weed". I know of NO ONE who has become even slightly suicidal, homocidal, or any other 'cidal...I've heard and experienced severe munchies, but that's it.

This should have received an earlier reply. The "clueless individual" who wrote the above statements was Harry Anslinger, the first drug czar of the United States. Through his steadfast efforts, he managed to make marijuana illegal, worldwide as it turned out.