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Why Pot Smokers Are on the Side of the Terrorists
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| Trancer-X |
I found this amusing so I figured I'd post it here
Why Pot Smokers Are on the Side of the Terrorists
Although the federal government is no longer running those ads that accuse drug users of supporting terrorism, the Drug Enforcement Administration has a traveling exhibit with the same message. After stops in Arlington, Virginia (home of the DEA's museum); Dallas, Texas; and Ashland, Nebraska, "Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists, and You" opened today in Times Square, missing the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks by just a few days.
USA Today reports that "the exhibit includes a large display of debris collected from [the Pentagon and the World Trade Center]. The exhibit does not specifically tie the attacks to drug trafficking, but it uses the events to explain how terrorists use the drug trade as one of several methods to fund attacks. It cites U.S. intelligence linking the Taliban in Afghanistan, and by extension its thriving heroin economy, to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda."
Never mind that any link between drugs and terrorism is an artifact of prohibition, or that Afghanistan's heroin ends up in the veins of Europeans (many of them French, no doubt) rather than Americans. The latest government figures indicate that three-quarters of illegal drug users are pot smokers. In what sense were they complicit in the murder of 3,000 Americans?
"The ONDCP spent millions on ads that blamed U.S. teenagers for murder and torture," says Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance. "With this exhibit, is the DEA saying that Governor George Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, and hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers who have used illegal drugs are responsible for [9/11] and other acts of terrorism?"
Good question. I doubt the DEA knows the answer.
Posted by Jacob Sullum at September 14, 2004 04:03 PM
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/200...rs.shtml#006618 |
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| smokeape |
For once I agree. I've said the same thing about Afghanistan before:
| quote: | Well we ought to be doing more in Afghanistan than just protecting poppy fields and making the drug producers happy. Looks like a bumper crop this year. Hit it again Habib!
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http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...bib+afghanistan
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| policerobots |
LOL thats one funny ass picture!
but hmm...drug users supporting terrorists....seems a bit far fetched but does make sense if you try to connect some dots |
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| Zombie0915 |
The DEA puts out information about where all the drugs we get comes from(or as much as they know about it, which is probably much more than I know). In North Carolina, 80 something percent is smuggled in my Mexican groups via truckers from cali/mexico. The rest is grown in peoples homes, mostly in the mountains. The hippies in the mountains arent supporting terror, and I doubt that the mexicans are in league with osama either, I imagine they are just interested in their own gains.
As for other drugs, most of the nasty chemical things are made in labs in rural areas, the DEA prdicted about 300 raids this year will happen, we'll see in a couple years how close that estimate was. I'm not sure that these clandestine labs in little hick towns have any terrorist connections, but they seem to be keeping to themselves a bit too much for this to be possible.
That leads to MDMA, which supposedly comes from Holland and Belgium and the far east, and is smuggled mostly by Israel and Russian groups. The Dutch don't appear to be funding terrorists, I see no reason why they would want to, do they have some reason to be pissed at USA? Russia is our ally now it seems, and the terrorist ing hate Israel.
According to the DEA the drugs in my area aren't funding terror, my best guess is that they are funding more drugs and a few fancy toys and glassware/chemicals.
But then the DEA says that drugs pay for killing cops and stuff? I think that is more the result of the middlemen dealers who don't want to go pack to prison then it is terrorist agendas, I would sure like to see what made them think that this is true, until them I'm assuming they are just saying all this in attempt to control drugs.
Yay for oppurtunists capitalising on people's trageties:rolleyes: |
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| Shakka |
| Hell, more and more pot smokers are growing their own crop, or are at least getting stuff that's grown domestically. I hardly see how THAT kind of pot smoking could support terrorism. It just supports procrastination and agricultural understanding!:D |
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| ResonantDrag |
Hey, what happens when you smoke pot?
nothing:stongue: |
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| ResonantDrag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
Hell, more and more pot smokers are growing their own crop, or are at least getting stuff that's grown domestically. I hardly see how THAT kind of pot smoking could support terrorism. It just supports procrastination and agricultural understanding!:D |
so the black hawk helicopters flying in my neighborhood searching for growers are actually supporting terrorists by eliminating domestic competition?
John Ashcroft supports terrorism! tell your friends:D |
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| Zombie0915 |
holy monkey thats awesome I never thought of it that way.
Take down terrorism! Grow pot for freedom, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! |
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| Shakka |
Apparently Ashcroft needs to read the King James version of the Bible:
Check out Psalms 104:14
| quote: | | He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; |
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| ResonantDrag |
Is this one of those cases where the bible is supposed to be taken literally?
lol
i get so confused sometimes, someone needs to annotate a bible to let us know which passages are real or figurative. where's pat robertson when we need him? |
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| Zombie0915 |
| I think it was meant to be interpreted different ways, that way more people would beleive in it because it could accomodate different systems of thinking. If it wasnt written that way then its a wonder that the book is still in print I think. |
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