If individuals are making labs in their backyards like they did with, as quoted, meth labs, they should be criminalized as if it were to make any other drug outside any authorized lab. Lock 'em if they want to continue with street dealing.
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.
You forgot a picture of this fine upstanding citizen.
the war on drugs has become much deadlier than the drugs themselves. Innocent civilians have more to fear from botched drug raids and careless police work than they do from drug dealers.
Below are a few innocent victims who became collateral damage and lost their lives in the war on drugs (there are many, many more).
http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/02/13/police-shoot-kill-80-year-old
Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don't Find the Drugs They Were Looking For
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/10_...nnocent_pe ople_in_the_war_on_drugs_partner/
10 shocking examples of police killing innocent people in the war on drugs
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/us-usa-shooting-empirestate-police-idUSBRE87Q04X20120827
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95475
Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House
L E B A N O N, Tenn.
By Vicki Brown
A 61-year-old man was shot to death by
police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug
raid on the wrong house.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/30/no-charges-for-texas-officer-who-shot-in
No Charges for Texas Officer Who Shot Innocent Man at Own Home
Below are a few innocent victims who became collateral damage and lost their lives in the war on drugs (there are many, many more).
http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/02/13/police-shoot-kill-80-year-old
Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don't Find the Drugs They Were Looking For
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/10_...nnocent_pe ople_in_the_war_on_drugs_partner/
10 shocking examples of police killing innocent people in the war on drugs
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/us-usa-shooting-empirestate-police-idUSBRE87Q04X20120827
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95475
Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House
L E B A N O N, Tenn.
By Vicki Brown
A 61-year-old man was shot to death by
police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug
raid on the wrong house.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/30/no-charges-for-texas-officer-who-shot-in
No Charges for Texas Officer Who Shot Innocent Man at Own Home
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Pot kills
Oh wait, that's crack.
Carry on
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Oh wait, that's crack.
Carry on
Sent from outer space or somewhere from my mobile device
Hash oil explosions rise with legalized marijuana
http://news.yahoo.com/hash-oil-explosions-rise-legalized-marijuana-060527546.html
http://news.yahoo.com/hash-oil-explosions-rise-legalized-marijuana-060527546.html
Drugs policy
A turning tide
REPORTS can be notable both for what they say and for the people they are endorsed by. A report on drugs policy that will be launched later today in London is a case in point. Ending the Drug Wars is published by the London School of Economics, and contains a series of articles by members of the LSEs expert group on the economics of drugs policy. The launch is being attended by Mauricio López Bonillo, the interior minister of Guatemala, one of a band of countries in Latin America which are openly challenging the old orthodoxy on the war on drugs.
The report presents compelling evidence for the costs of an all-out policy of prohibitionism. In countries that are primarily consumers of drugs, notably the United States, hardline policies mean mass incarcerationdrug offences are reckoned to account for 40% of the 9m individuals on the planet who are in jail. That has implications for public health, among other things. Between 70-85% of inmates of state correctional facilities in America need some level of substance-abuse treatment, for example; but because such treatment is often lacking, released prisoners who have developed a lower tolerance for opiates often suffer fatal overdoses when they first get out of jail.
In countries that are primarily suppliers, the presence of, and response to, drug traffickers have led to enormous surges in violence. Mexicos homicide rate increased threefold in a period of just four years, following the launch of an all-out attack on drugs cartels by the then president, Felipe Calderon. Similar spirals of violence have been seen in the wake of interdiction efforts in Colombia. John Collins, the editor of the report, argues that drugs policy ought to have as its primary goal reducing harm: Measuring numbers of deaths is a much better gauge of success than number of kilos of cocaine seized.
There is a third group of countries, says Mr López Bonilla, of which Guatemala is one. We want to go beyond a simplistic vision of just a question of supply and demand. We want to bring in the perspective of transit countries, who suffer the consequences of a problem which is not of their own making. The countries of Central America are in the path of narcotraffickers bringing their goods northwards from South America; the crackdown in Mexico appears to have encouraged more illegal activity to shift southwards, too. As well as the violence it causes directly, secondary consequences of increased narcotrafficking include heightened corruption and an increase in the numbers of weapons in general circulation.
Mr López Bonilla will take the report back to the Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina, who will use it support his call for a new international debate on drugs. That has been interpreted in some quarters as a call for drug legalisation; Mr López Bonilla prefers to talk of depenalisation as a first step. This is not about giving up the fight against drugs but about being more effective, he says. A special commission is looking at policy options within Guatemala; there is talk of allowing controlled production of opiates for medicinal purposes.
But the lot of transit countries will only really improve if there is a change of tune right along the drugs supply chain, and here the mood music is genuinely shifting. Mr Pérez Molina is not the only active politician in Latin America to have poked his head above the parapet on this topic; Juan Manuel Santos, Colombias president, said again in April that the war on drugs had failed, and on May 6th Uruguays government signed into law the rules governing its new, legalised marketplace for marijuana. The stance of the United States has softened too, not least because of the legalisation of marijuana for recreational purposes in Colorado and Washington. In 2012 the United States rejected the idea of a public debate on drugs, says Mr López Bonilla. Now it is more understanding. The LSE report is worth a read in its own right. But it is the changing political context that makes it really interesting.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/05/drugs-policy
A turning tide
REPORTS can be notable both for what they say and for the people they are endorsed by. A report on drugs policy that will be launched later today in London is a case in point. Ending the Drug Wars is published by the London School of Economics, and contains a series of articles by members of the LSEs expert group on the economics of drugs policy. The launch is being attended by Mauricio López Bonillo, the interior minister of Guatemala, one of a band of countries in Latin America which are openly challenging the old orthodoxy on the war on drugs.
The report presents compelling evidence for the costs of an all-out policy of prohibitionism. In countries that are primarily consumers of drugs, notably the United States, hardline policies mean mass incarcerationdrug offences are reckoned to account for 40% of the 9m individuals on the planet who are in jail. That has implications for public health, among other things. Between 70-85% of inmates of state correctional facilities in America need some level of substance-abuse treatment, for example; but because such treatment is often lacking, released prisoners who have developed a lower tolerance for opiates often suffer fatal overdoses when they first get out of jail.
In countries that are primarily suppliers, the presence of, and response to, drug traffickers have led to enormous surges in violence. Mexicos homicide rate increased threefold in a period of just four years, following the launch of an all-out attack on drugs cartels by the then president, Felipe Calderon. Similar spirals of violence have been seen in the wake of interdiction efforts in Colombia. John Collins, the editor of the report, argues that drugs policy ought to have as its primary goal reducing harm: Measuring numbers of deaths is a much better gauge of success than number of kilos of cocaine seized.
There is a third group of countries, says Mr López Bonilla, of which Guatemala is one. We want to go beyond a simplistic vision of just a question of supply and demand. We want to bring in the perspective of transit countries, who suffer the consequences of a problem which is not of their own making. The countries of Central America are in the path of narcotraffickers bringing their goods northwards from South America; the crackdown in Mexico appears to have encouraged more illegal activity to shift southwards, too. As well as the violence it causes directly, secondary consequences of increased narcotrafficking include heightened corruption and an increase in the numbers of weapons in general circulation.
Mr López Bonilla will take the report back to the Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina, who will use it support his call for a new international debate on drugs. That has been interpreted in some quarters as a call for drug legalisation; Mr López Bonilla prefers to talk of depenalisation as a first step. This is not about giving up the fight against drugs but about being more effective, he says. A special commission is looking at policy options within Guatemala; there is talk of allowing controlled production of opiates for medicinal purposes.
But the lot of transit countries will only really improve if there is a change of tune right along the drugs supply chain, and here the mood music is genuinely shifting. Mr Pérez Molina is not the only active politician in Latin America to have poked his head above the parapet on this topic; Juan Manuel Santos, Colombias president, said again in April that the war on drugs had failed, and on May 6th Uruguays government signed into law the rules governing its new, legalised marketplace for marijuana. The stance of the United States has softened too, not least because of the legalisation of marijuana for recreational purposes in Colorado and Washington. In 2012 the United States rejected the idea of a public debate on drugs, says Mr López Bonilla. Now it is more understanding. The LSE report is worth a read in its own right. But it is the changing political context that makes it really interesting.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/05/drugs-policy
There's a measure to put medicinal marijuana before a public vote in Nov. It's an initiative petition so starting around 16 May, they'll need 156,000 signatures in 90 days. Guy's name is Chip Paul, website: oklahomansforhealth.com
what wasted effort! .. an initiative petition for legalization of pot should be put to a vote of the people in the State of Oklahoma instead. an effort to legalize pot would get way more support vs a waste of resources for a half measure like legalizing pot for medicinal use only.
according to data from the Economist .. some 40% of folks in prison are for drugs folks in prison for pot has to be a major chunk of that. does anyone know % of folks in prison for pot in Okla?.
legalizing pot in Oklahoma would save HUGE $$$$ in enforcement/prison costs and generate HUGE $$$$ for schools and/or other public works projects.
I know that there are a lot of folks that get put in the County Jail for just a couple grams of the stuff but I hear that from inmates so take it how you will.
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