I saw this mentioned on one of those clickbait sites, but I didn’t believe it. But, believe it or not, Speedy Gonzales won an Oscar in 1955 apparently because nobody noticed the bit about weed. Of course, it was in Spanish, and we’ve long known that you can sneak pretty much any swear word into broadcast television as long as it’s not from English*.
Continue reading Video Clip of the Day, Speedy Gonzales Talks To Your Kids About Drugs edition.
OK, as I understand this one: the cops suspected that there was a marijuana grow lab in a Brooklyn maraschino cherry company, but couldn’t get proof. So they used an EPA complaint to get into the place, and then did the Hey! Do I smell POT? maneuver. After a few hours of this, the owner of the place politely excused himself, went into his private bathroom, and shot himself in the head.
Man, there’s something in there for everybody to get angry about, huh? The pro-pot people are going to be upset about the fact that the grow lab had to be illegal in the first place. The libertarians and small-government folks can focus on the use of a convenient piece of government paper to get the cops somewhere they can go do what they REALLY wanted to do. And here’s a point for the people who aren’t fretting over the first two: why the heck didn’t the cops secure the area and/or the owner properly? Once it was clear that the man was going to be arrested, the police should have made sure that he didn’t have, you know, access to a firearm and an opportunity to use it. Because ‘suicide in a bathroom’ isn’t the most horrible ending to that particular story. It’s not even close.
Not the NYPD’s finest moment, that.
The trick is to build on this. No, I don’t have a darned clue about how to go about it, either.
AMAZING. RT @lachlan: This, from @cjciaramella, is pretty great pic.twitter.com/FjulXf7zW4
— Dina Fraioli (@DinaFraioli) December 10, 2014
…No, really. Apparently growing the marijuana isn’t carbon neutral, or whatever the heck the theological term is. Fair warning: the link may be to Power Line, but it leads right from there to Mother Jones. Which is apparently on the other side of the War on Some Drugs, now. Just goes to show: never trust anybody over thirty.
Man.
Moe Lane
PS: The commenters over at Mother Jones are having none of this, by the way. It’s making for strangely compelling reading.
…it’s probably somewhere around “grenade launcher:”
Former McGruff the Crime Dog actor, John R. Morales, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison following his guilty plea three years after police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.
Now, a couple of caveats. I’m assuming that the grenade launcher was operable; if it was not, then it’s merely an objet d’art and thus irrelevant to this conversation (as is the 9,000 rounds of ammo*). Also, sixteen years sounds a bit harsh for having a working grenade launcher, or even a grenade launcher and all that marijuana. Admittedly, minus the ‘McGruff the Crime Dog’ entry on IMDB this guy’s history would sound like your standard drug dealer’s, but there’s no indication that he’s ever done anything violent. Continue reading If you’ve ever wondered where my personal limit is on the Second Amendment…
Because he will.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes since California voters made the first move in 1996. Voters in Colorado and Washington state took the next step last year and approved pot for recreational use. Alaska is likely to vote on the same question in 2014, and a few other states are expected to put recreational use on the ballot in 2016.
Nearly half of adults have tried marijuana, 12 percent of them in the past year, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. More teenagers now say they smoke marijuana than ordinary cigarettes.
Fifty-two percent of adults favor legalizing marijuana, up 11 percentage points just since 2010, according to Pew. Sixty percent think Washington shouldn’t enforce federal laws against marijuana in states that have approved its use. Seventy-two percent think government efforts to enforce marijuana laws cost more than they’re worth.
Joe Biden thinks that he can be President in 2016; he needs Obama’s supporters to swing to him in order to get the nomination; young people are generally more pro-pot than their elders; you do the math. That switching positions like this will invalidate everything that Joe Biden has ever said about drug use in the past is not really a concern for the Vice President; I mean, it’s not like Joe Biden ever actually believed in that stuff in the first place… or indeed anything else. Joke’s on the people who took the man at his word, really.
(Via Hot Air Headlines)
Moe Lane
PS: I am agnostic on the subject of marijuana; then again, this post isn’t really about pot. It’s about me anticipating Joe Biden lying about pot.
Sorry. Hot Air pretty much said everything I would have about this story about pot being decriminalized in Vermont, including the bit about being surprised that pot was particularly illegal in Vermont to begin with. I got nothing but the Duuuuuuuuude.
Duuuuuuuuude.
Dude?
Dude!
Duuuuuuuuude.
See, this is problem with liberal-libertarian “alliances:” God help the latter if the former disagree with them on something. Like, you know, pot legalization:
Colorado’s medical-marijuana dispensaries can sell the stuff just fine — and would-be vendors of the recreational variety hope to do the same once rules are put in place this year.
But there is little that those businesses can legally do with their cash other than put it in a safe or bury it. No bank, credit union or financial-services company can knowingly accept business accounts with any trace of a marijuana connection. If they do, it’s a federal crime.
Note the emphasis on “legal:” illegally there’s a bunch of stuff that businesses can do, starting with money laundering. I will avoid belaboring the point that it is somewhat surreal to ban a business operating legally under state law from essential and elementary business transactions, but I will make two points:
Continue reading Hey! Enjoying that all-powerful federal state there, pot legalization supporters?
This isn’t a told-you-so. Yet. But it’s a good way to bet:
Votes making Colorado and Washington the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use could be short-lived victories for pot backers because the federal government will fight them, two former U.S. drug control officials said on Wednesday.
They said the federal government could sue to block parts of the measures or send threatening letters to marijuana shops, followed up by street-level clampdowns similar to those targeting medical marijuana dispensaries the government suspects are fronts for drug traffickers.
Continue reading Q. Will Obama go after new pro-pot laws? A. That’s what people are guessing.
Shorter Penn Jillette (very, very profanely), about President Obama’s smirking about his past drug use and current status as the head honcho for the War On Some Drugs: “It’s not a G*d-d*mned joke!”
Oh, it’s a joke, all right. The technical term for it is “Dark Humor,” and I when write that you should take into account that I used to write amateur gaming material for a roleplaying setting that had that concept be a literal evocation of Evil. Continue reading #rsrh Penn Jillette is angry about Obama’s hyper-Drug Warrior hypocrisy. (NSFW)
