Former LSU football players arrested (Tyrann Mathieu, Jefferson, Hatcher, Bryant)

Colorado, Washington State and Oregon are now considering a measure that would make recreational use of cannabis legal. I listened to an interview with a police officer in one of those states on the radio yesterday who said, "it's time we start focusing our efforts on real criminals instead of a green plant". There are far more dangerous things going on in this world that deserve the focus of our forces.

This is one of the least dangerous drugs on the market. Check your alcohol related illness and death statistics if you want to find the most dangerous item out there. Hell cigarette smoking kills far more people. Yet we continue to spend insane amounts of money on chasing Marijuana. The bottom line is that if someone wants to smoke they are going to smoke. And they are harming no one else, pose no threat to anyone else.

So I agree, legalize it, tax it and quit dumping so much tax payer money down the drain. The revenue opportunities are insane! Watched a documentary on "Oaksterdam" talking about the legal distributors out West. One of the owners paid $600,000 in taxes to the Federal Government even though this is supposedly "Federally Illegal". That's just one person. So there is an incredible amount of tax money in the balance for the states and the federal government.

Then there's the amount of money that would be saved from no longer funding a drug "war" that is nothing more than a speed bump instead of a wall. Not to mention the reduction in violence and killing related to the illegal drug trade that would no longer be able to thrive. Money could be focused elsewhere. Hell, take the all the tax revenues and fund educational efforts to help kids understand the dangers of substance abuse. Feed the poor, shelter the homeless, expand higher education offerings to deserving students, bolster social security, fund medicaid, build schools, balance the budget ... the positive opportunities are endless!!

Yes, these guys broke the law, but the law needs to be changed.

It just doesn't make any sense.

 

Hilarious and so true, it's like he just got a 5th year, came off the bench for a series, stood on the pocket like a deer in headlights, got sacked 3 times and it's 4th and 25 and of course probably blaming someone else......dammit he just had to force his way in that gate!

 

Like these guys are scared of violence or being attacked. Happens every day down there my friend.

You'd also have to start launching drones all over the US and Canada as well. A military solution is not always the best one. They are not enemy combatants because they are not attacking us. They are selling to us. Big difference.

And we're sending lots of money down there instead of keeping it at home.

You're attacking the problem at the surface and not at the source. Like I said in my previous post. Continue to educate people on the dangers of substance use and abuse and reduce the demand which creates the opportunity for these guys. Furthermore, legalizing would drive prices down and hit them in their balance sheets making it unprofitable to continue to operate.

Just a thought.

 

The double wammy on the pot war ... one that would solve everything .....

Legalize it ... and make is such that the only grower/distributor in the US are State Governments.

1) Decrease spending on incarcerating these guys.

2) ALL profits would go to the State Treasuries, decreasing tax loads on the working class and making our economy more competitive.

3) The windfall of money to the State Governments would decrease the need of the State to take Federal Money, thus eliminating the need for the Fed to spend so much, sot the States could tell the Fed to go and F*ck itself.

4) No way the Cartels could compete with a State Funded Pot growing program .. they'd go broke within a year.

 

ANSWER: blunts

As far as I'm concerned, all these guys are idiots. TM7 is one of the most high-profile "recovering addicts" in the country, let alone Baton Rouge. To make his apartment the place where you hang out to burn one, or worse, bring over some extra you might unload later, is decision-making at its most abysmal. This gives a lot of insight into why trying to make Jefferson the leader of the team was ridiculous.

Sports Illustrated is already calling this yet another black eye for the LSU football program. The Tigers better seriously tighten-up, because there is no doubt in my mind people will be poking around to see what else they might find.

 

The grinders they make now have another chamber that traps the crystals that come off in the grinding process.

 

Agreed, and if you take away their cash cow of pot, they will have trouble financing the production of meth.

 

I saw that too. How in the world is this a black eye for LSU? None of these guys are on the team.

 

As Lasalle mentioned, you can collect the keef in the bottom, but I'd prefer to let it stay on the bud.

Also, if you're loading it into a vaporizer, you pretty much have to grind it up or else it won't heat up properly.

Great question, though. You're officially my new favorite bama fan.

 

So very much win in this post. I pretty much said the exact same thing about JJ to my friend when I first found out yesterday. He has still managed to find a way to screw the Tigers, despite not even being on the roster.

Also, I don't think this reflects negatively on Les. None of the players are currently on the team, but the way the story is being portrayed in the media, you'd think it was our entire starting offense.

That said, what's funny is that if this were in Colorado or one of the other 10 states where it's been decriminalized, these young men would have only gotten citations and we probably wouldn't have heard about it.