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To: cirrus who wrote (167097)	5/6/2009 5:36:31 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362853

>>Organized crime is probably lobbying behind the scenes to keep pot illegal... and thus their profits high. (No pun intended...)<< But that was a great pun-lol. These right wing nuts are so nuts they will not even concede evolution. Might I remind everyone these clowns who do not believe in evolution, defend torture, unregulated capitalism, do not believe in global warming or peak oil, that gays are normal people born with a slightly different sexual orientation and on and on and on--were running our country for the last 30 years. And that is why we are beind all other western nations intellectually. And that is the cold hard truth! And they have been screwing up this country for 80 years since Calvin Coolidge. And only now, in my old age do I get to see some recognition of just how nuts and incompetent they are. I was a lone voice in the woods for most of my life. They often cannot even string two coherant sentences together.

To: cirrus who wrote (167097)	5/6/2009 6:37:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362853

"Organized crime is probably lobbying behind the scenes to keep pot illegal..." Organized crime, in this case, is the Mexican Mafia. Doubt they are lobbying. "Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks October 11, 2008 09:27 PM EST \| PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels _ have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said. The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast's Cascade Mountains, as well as on federal lands in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Seven hundred grow sites were discovered on U.S. Forest Service land in California alone in 2007 and 2008 _ and authorities say the 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest is the hardest hit. Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes. Rat poison has been sprinkled..." Fuck them huffingtonpost.com Mexican cartels running pot farms in U.S. national forest Story Highlights Drug czar stands in pot garden: "These aren't Cheech and Chong plants" Authorities say Mexican drug cartels send illegals to grow marijuana in forest $1 billion worth of marijuana plants destroyed in Sequoia National Forest, cops say "They're willing to kill anybody who gets in their way," drug czar says SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, California (CNN) -- Beyond the towering trees that have stood here for thousands of years, an intense drug war is being waged. Authorities uncovered more than $1 billion worth of pot plants in Sequoia National Forest this week. Illegal immigrants connected to Mexico's drug cartels are growing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marijuana in the heart of one of America's national treasures, authorities say. It's a booming business that, federal officials say, feeds Mexico's most violent drug traffickers. edition.cnn.com