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The backlash begins. Across the country, resistance to legal marijuana is rising with an increasing number of towns and counties moving to ban legal sales

Voices in the Obama administration have joined antidrug crusaders like Patrick J. Kennedy, a Democratic former United States representative from Rhode Island, who contends that the potential health risks of marijuana have not been adequately explored, especially for juveniles — and who has written and spoken widely about his own struggles with alcohol and prescription drugs.

DEA chief Michele M. Leonhart slammed President Obama’s recent comments comparing smoking marijuana to drinking alcohol at an annual meeting of the nation’s sheriffs this week, according to two sheriffs who said her remarks drew a standing ovation.

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said he was thrilled to hear the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration take her boss to task.

“She’s frustrated for the same reasons we are,” Hodgson said. “She said she felt the administration didn’t understand the science enough to make those statements.



http://hotair.com/ar...f-the-day-1627/

[Rogerdodger]

Court records: Obama's high school pot dealer died violent death, beaten with hammer...
Raymond Boyer was known as 'Gay Ray' to Obama and his marijuana smoking 'Choom Gang' of privately-educated kids at Hawaiian high school
Ray was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in 1986, seven years after he supplied the future president and his friends with drugs
Lover Andrew Devere, a male prostitute, gave police a variety of reasons for the murder
He said surfer Boyer put him down constantly and broke wind in his face
Court documents uncovered for the first time by MailOnline
Choom is island slang for pot smoking and group went on excursions to countryside to get high and party, sometimes in Ray’s surf van
Devere is now living on the mainland after serving his life sentence
Obama last week said marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol
Devere's new wife Elizabeth told MailOnline doing drugs is fine if you are rich and 'have the tools to deal with it' but not if you are poor with problems

Edited by Rogerdodger, 29 January 2014 - 01:01 PM.

[Lee48]

Obama is stepping lightly on pot vs alcohol and is wrong. Alcohol is way more dangerous than pot. Here's one more recent example. You can probably find an article like this every week. And zero for pot. DALLAS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Texas jury sentenced former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent to 180 days in jail and 10 years probation on Friday for causing a fiery one-car crash that killed his teammate after a night of heavy drinking in 2012. The same jury that earlier this week convicted Brent, 25, of intoxication manslaughter for the death of Jerry Brown Jr., could have sentenced him to as much as 20 years in jail. Brent stood silently and looked at Dallas County Judge Robert Burns as he read the sentence. Brent's mother and family burst into tears and hugged each other when the sentence was read. But the judge had harsh words for the former defensive lineman, and for the Cowboys. "Your actions bring shame to the city of Dallas," Burns told Brent. "Mr. Brent, you are not the first Dallas Cowboy to kill somebody with a vehicle, but I sure hope you are the last." After a night of drinking at a private club in December 2012, Brent was driving his Mercedes at 110 mph (177 kph) when it slammed into a curb on a state highway, flipping the car, which caught on fire, and killing Brown, then 25. Brent's blood alcohol level at the time was 0.189, more than double the legal limit in Texas, according to police documents.

[Lee48]

An intelligent FL resident makes a comment about a recent pot bust. (old booze hounds come here to die) lol so true. What a joke. Go solve a real crime. We have so much violent crime here in Florida. Its a very dangerous place to live. Primarily because our cops waste time like this. Alcohol kills a person every hour in the USA. Weed never killed even one. The old generation was brain washed as they sucked down their scotch and beat their old lady. Unfortunately in Florida all the old booze hounds come here to die. Thats why are weed laws are so ridiculous. The good thing every day they die. Soon this country will be liberated from the generation who refused to think for themselves but did as their govt instructed under the guise they were being patriotic. Weed is thousand times safer then alcohol but they still have their heads buried deep in the ground.

[Rogerdodger]

STUDY: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Pot Triple...

The researchers found that drugs played an increasing role in fatal traffic accidents.
Drugged driving accounted for more than 28 percent of traffic deaths in 2010,
which is 16 percent more than it was in 1999.
The researchers also found that marijuana was the main drug involved in the increase.
It contributed to 12 percent of fatal crashes, compared to only 4 percent in 1999.
“If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol,” Li said.
“But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increased to 24 times that of a sober person.”
Researchers found that the increase in marijuana use occurred across all ages for males and females.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 February 2014 - 02:52 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Teens roll joint, shoot jogger.


Edwards, 16, said he was rolling marijuana cigarettes in the front passenger seat when Luna shot at Lane from the back seat.

He told an Oklahoma judge Tuesday that Chancey Luna, 16, shot and killed Christopher Lane, of Melbourne, from a car driven by Michael Dewayne Jones, 18.

The teens later drove to a restaurant after getting the "munchies".

[Lee48]

Hi Rog, hope you had a good vacation and stayed out of the crosshairs of them FL cops....lol

OK, 12% of fatal crashes involve pot use and 40% or 50% involve alcohol use.
And it's never a good idea to drink a sixpac and smoke a little weed and then go for a drive. Something bad usually happens..

Meanwhile,
500 people are killed each week in alcohol related accidents.

On average, 71 people are killed each day in alcohol related accidents. One American life is lost every 20 minutes in alcohol related automobile accidents.

Over 50% of all fatal highway crashes involving two or more cars are alcohol related.
Over 65% of all fatal single car crashes are alcohol related.
Over 36% percent of all adult pedestrian accidents are alcohol related.
80% of all alcohol related, fatal automobile accidents occur between 8 pm and 8 am.

Over two million alcohol impaired driving collisions occur each year.

Although persons between 16 and 24 years old comprise only 20% of the total licensed population, and only 20% of the total vehicle miles traveled in this country by all licensed drivers, persons between 16 and 24 years of age cause 42% of all fatal alcohol related crashes.

40% of all suicide attempts are alcohol-related
54% of all violent crimes are alcohol-related
60% of all emergency room admissions are alcohol-related
80% of all domestic disputes are alcohol-related

[Lee48]

I can't make this stuff up.
But a drunken substance abuse counselor drove 2 miles with the dying man she hit stuck in her windshield, till people stopped her.

A substance-abuse counselor who drove 2 miles through a Los Angeles suburb with a dying man on her windshield was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder, drunken driving and hit-and-run charges.
Sherry Lynn Wilkins showed no response as the Superior Court jury returned with its verdict.
Wilkins' blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit for driving when she struck 31-year-old Phillip Moreno in November 2012 in suburban Torrance, prosecutors said.


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Meanwhile, Partridge Family star Davis Cassidy get his 3rd DUI in 3 yrs. At least he didn't kill anyone.
Former teen idol David Cassidy faces his third drunken driving charge after being stopped for an illegal turn in Los Angeles on Friday night.
Cassidy, 63, blew .19% -- twice the legal level -- on an alcohol test administered by the California Highway Patrol officer who stopped the singer-actor's rented Chevrolet Impala, according to a CHP statement Saturday.
The former star of the TV series "The Partridge Family" was booked in a Los Angeles jail on a driving under the influence of alcohol charge early Saturday, the statement said. Jail records show he was freed on $15,000 bond several hours later.
http://www.cnn.com/2...cassidy-arrest/

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America Goes to Pot -- The 1960s’ escape from reality is now complete.

The drug culture was a fantasy culture in the ’60s. It remains such. The quest for escape is inherently immature: not so much wrong, perhaps, as evasive, fugitive, emotionally suspect.
You’re supposed to get over most such temptations by age 16.

The need for withdrawal from reality grew exuberant in the ’60s. Human kind, T. S. Eliot had noted wryly, can’t bear much reality: meaning much seriousness of purpose,
the human task of sorting out good from evil, right from wrong.


http://spectator.org...merica-goes-pot

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The myths of marijuana: Former DEA chief says pot legalization a 'disaster'

It “will damage the young people in those states. It will damage the industries in those states, and put the highways in jeopardy,”

Bensinger argued that the public, and politicians now pushing to legalize the drug, have been duped by the “myth” that marijuana can do no harm.

“You'll dissipate a drink in about an hour per drink; marijuana can stay in your body for a week,” he said. “It goes to where we're fattest, which is our brain. … It causes short-term memory loss if used chronically. It impacts on the immune system
if used regularly. It affects your depth perception.”

He said recent statistics show a spike in traffic fatalities from drivers high on pot and a significant influx in hospital emergency room visits due to overuse of the drug.


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