Poll: Marijuana Law Reform

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Read your own post.

this was taken from actual junk science document you referred to.
he was an admitted illegal drug user ... that could mean anything .. heroin on down to pot

absolute junk! they proved nothing .. so what someone dies suddenly and pot was found in their blood.
statement below says: The autopsy conclusion was an acute coronary event ... but says nothing to prove pot caused death.

needle marks in both arms from medical treatment?? if he died suddenly in a hotel, those marks didn't come from treatment to save him.

how convenient not to include why he had needle marks in both arms. no one gets multiple IV needle marks on both arms from medical treatment from a doctor unless there's a pretty good reason. could be an overdose from heroin from those IV needle marks for all we know. correct me if I'm wrong .. only IV needle marks will show up in autopsy? subcutaneous injection marks would be all but invisible within minutes.

2.6. Case 6
A 42-year-old male died suddenly in a hotel. Cardiac
resuscitation was started immediately, but was unsuccess-
ful.He had a record of illicitdrug use. Needlemarks in both
arms were ascribed to medical treatment. The autopsy
revealed slight atheromatosis in the coronary blood vessels
and also narrowing of a coronary artery. The autopsy
conclusion was an acute coronary event. Toxicological
analysis revealed 7 mg/l THC in whole blood. Urine was
not available for analysis.There were no other toxicological
findings

 

[53convert]

what a load of crapola.............

 

[vvvvvvv]

RickN: The Bible tells me so.

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[otis147]

I said it is not a cure for anything

and that's a false statement, it does cure and treat a myriad of diseases. it is neuroprotrctive, it helps cancer cells remember how to die while leaving healthy cells unharmed. it helps with rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, is an excellent pain management tool, without the dangers of acetomenaphin, the list goes on.

 

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soooo .. are Tulsa streets safer after this bust for pot?

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News: Crime

Police Say Tulsa Streets Safer After Marijuana Drug Bust

Austin Hingey mug shot.

Police found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash. Police found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash.

Sergeant Sean Larkin said Hingey was a large scale player. Sergeant Sean Larkin said Hingey was a large scale player.

Hingey's neighbor, Tamara Kittrell said Hingey is a nice guy and a good neighbor. Hingey's neighbor, Tamara Kittrell said Hingey is a nice guy and a good neighbor.
TULSA, Oklahoma -

Tulsa's Organized Gang Unit recovered 22 pounds of marijuana and more than $300,000 in cash Tuesday. They say it belonged to a man they think is a major player in the city's marijuana trade.

They say Austin Hingey had close to $110,000 worth of marijuana spread out over three separate locations, but police say it's what he was doing out of a small home in the 300 block of South Trenton Avenue that caught their attention.

5/6/2014 Related Story: Tulsa K-9 Officer 'Buster' Aids In Drug Bust

Investigators say Hingey was using the home as his base to sell marijuana. Inside they found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash.

The big haul, police say, was at a storage facility where they accuse Hingey of stashing his stash, 22 pounds worth of marijuana was found there, as well as close to $332,000 in cash.

Police say the marijuana was shipped to Hingey from California and has a street value of $5,000 a pound.

"For him to have 22 pounds and that amount of cash, he's definitely a large scale player," said Sergeant Sean Larkin with the Tulsa Police.

Larkin says Hingey actually lives in a home on South Richmond where investigators found more cash.

"I want them to know that he is a very decent person," said neighbor Tamara Kittrell.

Kittrell lives down the street from Hingey. She says he was a nice guy and good neighbor who would often hand out vegetables from his garden and take in stray dogs.

"He knows I have heart problems. He checks on me, he checks on everybody," Kittrell said. "He's kind, considerate, calls me, 'Yes, ma'am.'"

Kittrell is upset that police would target Hingey, she thinks marijuana should be legalized in Oklahoma.

Investigators say it doesn't matter if people think it should be legal, right now it's not, and police say Tulsa is safer with Hingey off the streets.

"A lot of people say, 'You know, marijuana is not a dangerous drug. There's not violence.' But every single year we have homicides and shootings that occur here in Tulsa where somebody is trying to rob somebody for marijuana or a drug deal gone bad over marijuana," Larkin said.

 

[SilencerX7]

The violence is because of the availability of Mary Jane and the individuals who distribute. Of course, anything handled by degenerate gangbangers is gonna spark violence. All they care about is the money.

I'm neutral to this whole thing (never smoked it and grew up with a nurse for a mother who is strongly against recreational drugs) but that is just stupid to put violence on a product's namesake when it is naturally handled by hooligans because legitimate businesses cannot carry it and, therefore, reduce this claim to violence.

In other words, no. Tulsa is not any safer because there is still a market for an illegal substance and the dealers are always going to be present no matter who that may be.

 

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Grand Closing: America’s Pot Farmers Are Putting Mexican Cartels Out of Business

For the first time in generations, farmers in central Mexico have stopped planting marijuana.

Due to ample supplies up north, courtesy of medical and recreational cannabis legalization, cartel farmers can’t make any money off pot anymore, they told the Washington Post this week. The price for a pound of Mexican marijuana has plummeted 75 percent from $100 per kilogram to less than $25.

"'It’s not worth it anymore,'" said 50 year-old Rodrigo Silla, a lifelong cannabis farmer. He also told the Post he couldn’t remember the last time his family and others stopped growing mota. “'I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.'”

The Mexico Institute for Competitiveness

For several years we have been writing about how researchers think that domestic cannabis legalization will seriously hurt Mexican drug cartels - who have murdered something like 60,000 people in the last decade. We've reported on how California cannabis has cut Mexican cartels out of the Golden State. That garbage goes east now. Researchers estimate legalization would cost the cartels billions, and a think tank in Mexico said that legalization in just one US state would cut cartels out of the US pot industry. Those days appears to have arrived.

Farmers in the storied “Golden Triangle” region of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, which has produced the country’s most notorious gangsters and biggest marijuana harvests, say they are no longer planting the crop. ... increasingly, they’re unable to compete with U.S. marijuana growers. With cannabis legalized or allowed for medical use in 20 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, more and more of the American market is supplied with highly potent marijuana grown in American garages and converted warehouses - some licensed, others not. Mexican trafficking groups have also set up vast outdoor plantations on public land, especially in California, contributing to the fall in marijuana prices.

So now we have both the DEA and cartel farmers both screaming bloody murder about legalization - sounds like we're on the right track.

 

[loudshirt]

soooo .. are Tulsa streets safer after this bust for pot?

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News: Crime

Police Say Tulsa Streets Safer After Marijuana Drug Bust

Austin Hingey mug shot.

Police found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash. Police found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash.

Sergeant Sean Larkin said Hingey was a large scale player. Sergeant Sean Larkin said Hingey was a large scale player.

Hingey's neighbor, Tamara Kittrell said Hingey is a nice guy and a good neighbor. Hingey's neighbor, Tamara Kittrell said Hingey is a nice guy and a good neighbor.
TULSA, Oklahoma -

Tulsa's Organized Gang Unit recovered 22 pounds of marijuana and more than $300,000 in cash Tuesday. They say it belonged to a man they think is a major player in the city's marijuana trade.

They say Austin Hingey had close to $110,000 worth of marijuana spread out over three separate locations, but police say it's what he was doing out of a small home in the 300 block of South Trenton Avenue that caught their attention.

5/6/2014 Related Story: Tulsa K-9 Officer 'Buster' Aids In Drug Bust

Investigators say Hingey was using the home as his base to sell marijuana. Inside they found marijuana brownies, butter, and candy. They also found a few thousand dollars in cash.

The big haul, police say, was at a storage facility where they accuse Hingey of stashing his stash, 22 pounds worth of marijuana was found there, as well as close to $332,000 in cash.

Police say the marijuana was shipped to Hingey from California and has a street value of $5,000 a pound.

"For him to have 22 pounds and that amount of cash, he's definitely a large scale player," said Sergeant Sean Larkin with the Tulsa Police.

Larkin says Hingey actually lives in a home on South Richmond where investigators found more cash.

"I want them to know that he is a very decent person," said neighbor Tamara Kittrell.

Kittrell lives down the street from Hingey. She says he was a nice guy and good neighbor who would often hand out vegetables from his garden and take in stray dogs.

"He knows I have heart problems. He checks on me, he checks on everybody," Kittrell said. "He's kind, considerate, calls me, 'Yes, ma'am.'"

Kittrell is upset that police would target Hingey, she thinks marijuana should be legalized in Oklahoma.

Investigators say it doesn't matter if people think it should be legal, right now it's not, and police say Tulsa is safer with Hingey off the streets.

"A lot of people say, 'You know, marijuana is not a dangerous drug. There's not violence.' But every single year we have homicides and shootings that occur here in Tulsa where somebody is trying to rob somebody for marijuana or a drug deal gone bad over marijuana," Larkin said.

The violence is because of the availability of Mary Jane and the individuals who distribute. Of course, anything handled by degenerate gangbangers is gonna spark violence. All they care about is the money.

I'm neutral to this whole thing (never smoked it and grew up with a nurse for a mother who is strongly against recreational drugs) but that is just stupid to put violence on a product's namesake when it is naturally handled by hooligans because legitimate businesses cannot carry it and, therefore, reduce this claim to violence.

In other words, no. Tulsa is not any safer because there is still a market for an illegal substance and the dealers are always going to be present no matter who that may be.

Legalizing marijuana will not stop the violence. How much has gang/drug violence went down in the states where it is legal? In Colorado there are still plenty of illegal drug sales since they can still sell it cheaper than the legal outlets.

 

[SeanO]

Legalizing marijuana will not stop the violence. How much as gang/drug violence went down in the states where it is legal? In Colorado there are still plenty of illegal drug sales since they can still sell it cheaper than the legal outlets.

People said the same thing about relegalizing alcohol.

If states got rid of their ridiculously high tax on MJ price wouldn't be an issue.

Your assumption on price is also a little off. Price for an 1/8 oz in CT was about $30-40 on the street. On a trip to CO an 1/8 oz of much higher quality medical(before the legalized recreational use)MJ was $35. So it is not that much cheaper on the street.

 

[loudshirt]

At least they will be able to smoke pot to relieve the pain.

http://news.yahoo.com/hash-oil-explosions-rise-legalized-marijuana-060527546.html

DENVER (AP) - The opening months of Colorado's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug's intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories.

Since Jan. 1, when sales began, the state's only certified adult burn center has treated 10 people with serious injuries they suffered while making hash oil, compared with 11 in 2013 and one in 2012.

Law enforcement and fire officials, meanwhile, are grappling with how to respond, as the questionable legality of the process has made it difficult to punish amateur chemists. Some prosecutors are charging them with felonies, while others say hash oil production is protected under a provision of the new legal pot law.

"These today are the meth labs of the '90s. We have to change our thinking and what we're looking for," said police Sgt. Pat Long in Thornton, a Denver suburb where officers were puzzled by the city's first hash oil explosion in January.

Hash oil is typically made by packing the castoff leaves and stems of pot plants into a pipe and pouring highly flammable butane through it. The concoction is heated to make the potent oil for far cheaper than it can be purchased in stores.

The golden mixture can be up to 80 percent THC, marijuana's intoxicating chemical, and devotees say one or two drops can produce a more euphoric high than an entire joint. It can also be infused into baked goods or vaporized.