We VOTE DOWN GAMBLING, and yet the state wants to bring casinos here.
We VOTE FOR POT, and yet the STATE is still an TYRANNICAL PRICK!
That's MASSACHUSETTS' ONE-PARTY "DEMOCRACY" for you!!!
"Blunt lawsuit pits rolling paper makers v. city; Boston ban on wraps starts Monday" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | February 7, 2009
To the annals of legendary Boston protests - think tea and stamps - we can now add blunt wraps.
Think (inhale) REVOLT (inhale), Massachusetts (inhale) residents (cough, cough)!!!!
The makers of wraps, which are tobacco-based rolling papers, are suing the city over the Boston Public Health Commission's decision in December to ban their product from store shelves across the city. Producers of blunt wraps contend that city regulators are unconstitutionally picking on them.
No doubt they are!
The blunt-wrap prohibition was part of a broader regulation strengthening Boston's tobacco control ordinances, giving the city some of the nation's toughest antismoking provisions. A key rule eliminates cigarette sales in pharmacies and in stores on college campuses, but allows other retailers to continue selling tobacco products, except for blunt wraps.
That's the COVER under which they are applying the tyranny.
With little fanfare, three major blunt wrap manufacturers - as well as their trade organization, the RYO (as in, roll your own) Cigar Association - sued the city in Suffolk Superior Court last month, hoping to stop the city's enforcement of the blunt ban, which starts Monday. A judge denied a request for an emergency halt, but allowed the case to proceed for a full hearing.
"If they treated us like every other tobacco product, we wouldn't be filing this suit," said James Brett, the Boston lawyer representing the blunt wrap makers, who estimated that $1.5 million worth of blunt wraps are sold annually in Boston.
Yeah, so the STATE is going to use TAXPAYER MONEY to FIGHT a LEGAL PRODUCT because they DON'T LIKE the WAY WE VOTED last November.
Why even other voting anymore? Carlin was right.
"But they singled us out," Brett said. "You can go to a liquor store or a convenience store and still get tobacco, but not blunt wraps."
The health commission's executive director, Barbara Ferrer, said in an interview yesterday that blunt wraps present a particular threat to the well-being of the young because they are sold in tempting fruity flavors and "used almost exclusively for illicit purposes," namely, smoking marijuana, she said....
Yeah, and LORD HELP US if it would actually HELP PEOPLE! Anything that might actual help you stay alive, this government opposes.
"Study: Smoking Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer--It May Prevent It! Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer Of Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds; Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect"
It's a CULTURE of DEATH country!!!
Related: The Ron Paul Platform: Personal Freedom
During the next few weeks, city inspectors will visit the roughly 75 pharmacies covered by the regulation to make sure they're following the new rules....
Yup, MORE TAXPAYER MONEY WASTED!!!
--more--"Yeah, I guess the Boston's finest have better things to do:
"Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial"
And what sort of IDIOT admits HE SMOKES POT in the PAPER?
This kind:
"Stop the reefer madness!" by Steve Almond | February 7, 2009
.... Michael Phelps now has the chance to establish himself as a genuine American hero. Not by winning more gold medals. Those victories, inspiring as they may be, are a matter of personal athletic accomplishment.
No, what Phelps could do now - with a little courage - is to retract the phony apology he issued to his fans (at the behest of his sponsors) and admit that he uses pot in moderation and sees no reason why such behavior, when practiced by adults in a responsible manner, should be criminalized by politicians, or vilified by professional scolds like Christine Brennan.
After all, smoking up in a dorm room is a far healthier response to stress than getting behind the wheel of a car drunk, as Phelps did four years ago. That DUI arrest was a legitimate cause for objection. He could have killed somebody. But getting stoned? In this day and age? Please. Just a few months ago Massachusetts residents voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize pot possession. And the people of Michigan - not exactly a hotbed of radicalism - approved a measure to legalize medical marijuana, becoming the 14th state to do so.
But OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HEAR US!!!!
Politicians spent years trying to make hay over the war on drugs, and diverting law enforcement resources from violent crime to pot busts. But the time has come for them to face the fact that the majority of their constituents no longer view pot as a hard drug. Period.
In fact, the Phelps photo already has done wonders to debunk the Hollywood stereotype of marijuana users as Oreo-munching zombies. (See: "Cheech & Chong," "Weeds," "The Sarah Silverman Show," and any Judd Apatow film ever made.) Phelps may not be a choirboy, but nobody can accuse him of being a slacker.
Nor do I consider myself a slacker, though I've been smoking marijuana since I was a teenager. Several of my most ambitious and high-achieving friends are also part-time potheads. We smoke to unwind, in the same way others drink a glass of wine with dinner. Big fat deal.
I EXPECT the POLICE to be WATCHING and PAYING YOU a FEW VISITS, sir!
Otherwise, we have a DOUBLE-STANDARD, don't we?
My hope is that pot will eventually be legalized nationwide, and regulated by the government, which could then collect tax proceeds from this cash crop. And just imagine the job creation that would result. Finally, an economic stimulus package most Americans would endorse....
At first I was for the idea; however, by the end of the paragraph, naw.
I DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT INVOLVED!!
No, I didn't.
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Now what, (cough), were we talkin' about?
