Well Gus.. this nation has a lot of problems and it is from corruption...
yeah, the DEA can stop this, "if they wanted to"... keeping the problem alive, is where the money
is....typical government.. they love to create a problem if one doesn't exist.. so we have to employ
them to solve the problem they created and then perpetuate...
yeah, we need to close the borders and we also have a lot of undesirables that need to be sent back
to where they came from...
And we are talking within our own borders.. seems logistically a lot simpler than trying to enforce
illegal activities outside of our borders, and only being able to tackle them once they show up on the
door step....
and now For Bwana...
yeah, it is the Corruption.. and its also the product.. regardless of what the product might be...
its not a what came first type of thing, the chicken or the egg...
The product and the corruption make up two halves of the circle...
And as was pointed out... its what the liberals up in Potland and Salem voted in..
most of the rest of the state didn't want a thing to do with it...
and if our local counties are any indication, its only corruption that allowed dope
into the 23 of 33 counties within the state...
The solution to the problem is not, why is dope here....
The solution to the problem is getting rid of the two fold reasons its here..
The dope and the corrupt governmental officials.. that stretch all the way to the
Governor's Office and the State Senators in Washington DC...
I've seen people my entire life talk about the Corruption of the Good Ol Boys Club
in the south...
Living in Boston, Minneapolis, being near Chicago, Growing up outside of Metro DC...
Seattle, Rural Oregon....
the Corruption of the Good Ol Boys in the South, are second string relief Squad compared
to what exists elsewhere in this country....
Corruption is a good reason the Feds aren't enforcing Federal Laws regarding the
distribution...much less the growing of marijuana...
Of minor interest, if anyone ever gets ahold of an Internal Revenue Code, or live near
a Federal Depository Library... check out the subject of Marijuana in the IRC past and present.
There is 40 plus pages addressing Marijuana in the Internal Revenue Code...
one of the original enforcements against it, was that the Feds couldn't collect the taxes on it..
much like Revenuers chasing down moonshine makers back in those southern Hills...
in the 20s and 30s, Marijuana was a major crop in the Philippines.. which was a US territory.
to give it an economy, Marijuana was grown in the P.I., and there was no tax on it coming into the USA
but there was a tax on Marijuana grown stateside...
of course it was used more for industrial uses in those days, vs recreational pharmaceutical uses...
