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poweRob said:
I think there's a huge difference between a (most) "schedule I" drugs and a glass of scotch though.
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What's the difference?
List of Schedule I drugs (US) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

Where do you see your Scotch not matching this list?
 
danarhea said:
Yup, happened right here in Houston, a town in which the motto of the police is "The badge means you can kill". This is the home of some of the worst police abuses ever documented in America. This is where Jose Campos Torres was handcuffed and thrown into Buffalo Bayou, where he drowned, while the cops who threw him yelled "Let's see if this wetback can swim". This is also where you can be stone cold sober and still end up in court for DWI if a cop doesn't happen to like you. I had my own DWI reversed by the court after the same dumb ass cop did the same thing to a woman who happened to be a secretary at the FBI office here. When the Feds did their investigation, they found 27 more cases where the cop had done the same thing. Lucky for me, mine happened to be one of them. The DWI against me was dismissed, but not until I had shelled out 15 thousand bucks and completed all of my 2 years of probation for it. The cop was fired and prosecuted for official oppression, and the police department of Tomball (The Houston suburb where this happened) was put under Federal oversight. Supposedly, they have now cleaned up their act, but I still drive miles out of my way to avoid driving through there. LOL.

Where it comes to police abuse of power, Houston, and the surrounding area, is second to none.

As for that crooked cop's lawsuit, it will be quickly laughed out of court, and I hope that the family has their own day in court with that asswipe.
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Kittens found with ears cut off recovering in foster home | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News - I know, Dallas not Houston but you sure have a wacky state there:)
 
specklebang said:
What's the difference?
List of Schedule I drugs (US) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

Where do you see your Scotch not matching this list?
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Perhaps you are right. I'm kind of biased because while I've been broken into a few times while living in different parts of the country... they didn't do it to support their bad scotch habit. lol
 
poweRob said:
Perhaps you are right. I'm kind of biased because while I've been broken into a few times while living in different parts of the country... they didn't do it to support their bad scotch habit. lol
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Maybe it was for the money?
 
specklebang said:
Maybe it was for the money?
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Nah... they caught the guy that broke into my house in Ga. He was hitting all the houses up my street. Crackie.

In Phoenix, my neighborhood when to meth hell and they didn't get caught the couple times they broke into my house there and the other times they stole crap out of my yard but a solidly educated guess would be for the meth.

I'm all for legalizing pot and regulate and tax it as if it were alcohol and/or cigarettes and use some of those revenues (as well as the money saved not having that stupid war on marijuanna part of the drug war) to go after the mindless speed freaks.
 
poweRob said:
Nah... they caught the guy that broke into my house in Ga. He was hitting all the houses up my street. Crackie.

In Phoenix, my neighborhood when to meth hell and they didn't get caught the couple times they broke into my house there and the other times they stole crap out of my yard but a solidly educated guess would be for the meth.

I'm all for legalizing pot and regulate and tax it as if it were alcohol and/or cigarettes and use some of those revenues (as well as the money saved not having that stupid war on marijuanna part of the drug war) to go after the mindless speed freaks.
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Unfortunately, you're in the same Kafkaesque spiral that causes alcohol drinkers to pass laws against marijuana users who in turn criticize Methamphetamine users who think that Cocaine users are crazy while the LSD users shun the heroin users and so forth.

They should all be legal. They should be sold in controlled circumstances like the old State Liquor Store system, without any advertising or glorification. That's much too simple though....
 
specklebang said:
Unfortunately, you're in the same Kafkaesque spiral that causes alcohol drinkers to pass laws against marijuana users who in turn criticize Methamphetamine users who think that Cocaine users are crazy while the LSD users shun the heroin users and so forth.

They should all be legal. They should be sold in controlled circumstances like the old State Liquor Store system, without any advertising or glorification. That's much too simple though....
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I'm for it like that. I think our uber religious nation and phony conservatives in this country would die a thousand deaths before any of that. I liked what I think Vancouver had done that I saw some time ago in a news documentary.

Even though it was still illegal nationally, they provided heroine houses for users to go to (taxpayer funded which chases off the phony conservatives right there) and they provided small quantities with clean needles. This helps drop the spread of disease as well as provided a rehab in the same building that they could opt for. Because as much as I'm for rehab over prison, you are NOT going to rehab someone who really doesn't want to. They have to want to to make any progress so the volunteer option makes a lot of sense.

So instead of living in the shadows of society and spreading used, rusty needle diseases and breaking into houses to support their habits, it was organized and monitored and rehabbed. It seemed like a very wise approach.
 
Abuse of our legal system can also come in the criminal courts and be perpetrated by the State.

Recently, the Arapahoe County (CO) DA prosecuted a 10-year old boy for arson. It seems the boy was playing with fire and accidentally did burned a portion of his parents home causing nearly $200,000 in damage. The DA was seeking restitution FOR the insurance company... essentially making the family pay back insurance proceeds AND pay lawyers to defend their 10 year old. How twisted is that?

Fortunately a local paper got wind of this story and wrote extensively about it, ultimately shaming the DA into sanity.... she finally dropped the charges.

Jacob Christenson, age 11, facing arson trial in Parker over fire that "just happened" - Denver - News - The Latest Word
 
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