Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations

This is terrible, leave the reservations to the indigenous population. Why can't they decriminalize and regulate so that they black market demand is lowered?

I find that very disturbing.

The federal government is making an even bigger mess by enforcing the prohibition of marijuana. Hopefully their ideology will turn around or else police and the DEA are going to be finding more Mexican pot farms. It needs to be soon.

damn, on my reservation we'd never allow other races to use our land like that. the drug business doesnt surprise me, that's found everywhere. but to be used? wtf

im not saying that legalization of cannabis and industrial hemp would solve all our problems, but the benefits that come with legalization would greatly help us solve the problems we have.

and things like this wouldn't happen as much of anymore... now i cant really say anymore because people are unpredictable. but if legalized and sold by the govt., the demand of marijuana from these drug dealers or cartels would decrease dramatically, or fade away altogether.

there are so many positives that comes with legalization that it actually becomes tiring just naming them. and the negatives are basically dwarfed by the positives.

i think we should organize rally's across the US at state capitols a few days out of the year, and show up at town hall meetings to get more attention on this very important subject. we don't have to get ignorant and violent at these rally's, just get our point across in a dignified and intelligent manor.

i say we really enforce our laws and PUNISH the fuck out these people who conduct illegal activities...

fuck the legalization shit..the only fuckers who pushes that bullshit are feinds who try to trojan horse their weakness behind his benevolent bullshit as medical advantages and tax revenues..ITS ALL BULLSHIT

drug abuse is a sign of weak mind.........

Geeze! Lets just legalize this shit so we can stop spending billions on wasting time & resorces already. I'm so over this nonsense.

Typing in all caps is also a sign of a weak mind.

@acontradiction

honestly? hasn't the govt. been trying to do that for the longest time? where has that gotten us... a couple billion dollars in debt, over crowded prisons, stronger drug cartels as well as even more drug dealers, high crime rates involving incidents while dealers are selling or law enforcement busting houses or plantations... the list just keeps going on. the only way to stop most of if not all of that is to legalize.

people aren't gonna buy shit from a trigger happy drug dealer with tainted product, if the govt. sells the same thing in a safe place with product that you know is 100% pure.

not only that id rather my money go to something like rehabilitation programs or drug education or even filter back through the system to me(this would also keep more money with in the system), than to have the dealer spend that money on a gun or a whore, or cartels building more power..

and as for medical advantages.... its not bullshit. if you would actually take the time to read then you would know about the well documented instances where cancer patients, people suffering form migraines, insomnia, arthritis has had huge benefits due to the use of cannabis, and in some cases would swear that the only reason their alive is because of it.

do a little bit of research and you might actually learn something, don't just take what someone says at face value. don't take what i say at face value... do some research on this then come back and bring a coherent argument on why this should stay illegal, until then all you are displaying is ignorance to the truths.

Cannabis hemp could generate a new industrial revolution for the people of America. There would be no 'pot gangs' if our own representatives were not spinning disinformation for 'corporate gangs' who are more interested in protection from a natural competitor 'cannabis hemp', than the Americans they represent.

Politicians have been afforded the luxury of lies for too long. It's time to hold them accountable. If they are going to spin facts, they should be held accountable when their facts are untrue. Lies and disinformation should not be sociably acceptable. Facts matter. The truth matters most.

People like acontradiction, should not make policy. That's just 'madness'! We know it's 'madness', yet we have to watch our own government perpetuate a 'war' on a plant, using false facts. It's time to stop the 'voices of madness' from participating in the discussion. The 'voices of madness' have led us down the path, where 'pot gangs' are a problem.

If our politicians had followed the 'Voices of Reason', instead of the 'voices of madness' we would not be confronted with 'pot gangs'.

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington, U.S. President

"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
- John Adams, U.S. President

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana." - Jimmy Carter, U.S. President

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." - Carl Sagan, renown scientist, astronomer, astrochemist, author and TV host

"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" - Henry Ford, whose first Model-T was constructed from hemp fibers and built to run on hemp gasoline

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -Abraham Lincoln

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." - Albert Einstein quote on Hemp

dkl165

u got that wrong. conniepae wasn't spinning things in Albert said in our favor. the quote was simply to bring to attention the other times prohibition has been used, and it has been an utter failure.

all your looking at is the negative aspects of cannabis, and you say it should be illegal because of it. take in all aspects of this substance both good and bad... you know as well as i do that the positive effects that legalization would greatly outweigh the negatives.

have you realized that in its over 3000 years of use no one has died because of it? as a matter a fact it has actually helped to save millions of lives across the world.

now put all quotes and everything aside and just leave plain hard facts on the table.... which do you see as being more beneficial to the economy, the people, and the earth.... and honestly weigh the facts positives against the negatives..

billions saved and generated

safer medical treatment(not the safest, but certainly safer the more than half of the over the counter drugs being sold today)

billions of acres of trees saved

more room in prisons for actual criminals like murderers and rapists.

less drug dealers, and decreasing the power for drug cartels

better use of law enforcement

well i could just keep going on but you can get the picture and if not do some more research. basically what i am saying is that no marijuana is not some perfect plant that here to solve all our problems, but this plant can help to solve most problems and there are better ways to use cannabis such as eating or vaporizing it.

now i wont tell you to change your mind cuz well obviously that's not going to happen, but what i do hope that you will do is open it up just a little bit to see the other side of the argument.