Joey wrote on April 08, 2009 07:41 AM: making any sick persons life more unmanageable is irresponsible. Have these good senators get the best book for growing marijuana and lets see how they do. If they don't kill the seed before it grows I would be amazed. This plant is not like growing anything or any weed. It really is not a weed and is highly sensitive to many environmental factors as well as nutrients. These morons have no idea what they are talking about they just want to hear their names spoken. Perhaps ending their political careers with something so ridiculous as this will help them be more understanding of others. If they can get it to grow I am sure they would kill it never produce any good medicine let alone make clones or identify which one to use for medicine. This plant is takes a lot of patience and time to produce medicine grade produce which takes plants not one or two. Their intentions are not hidden to me I can see exactly what they are after. They want to shut us down so they can control every aspect of the growing and make money. These people are greedy and self serving morons who think they are smarter than the rest of us. Here's your sign morons when we vote you out of office you make nothing and get no more kick backs or lobbying money, you know the millions of dollars for selling out the American public. OUR VOTE IS YOUR LAST AND FINAL WARNING, BUT I UNDERSTAND YOU REALLY ARE THAT IGNORANT AND ILL INFORMED SO THIS IS MY GOODBYE TO YOU AND YOUR CAREER IN POLITICS. GOOD LUCK LOL.

DaveMan50 wrote on April 01, 2009 01:03 PM: Legalize it. Grow some Cohunes and kill the drug enforcement industry. Drug problems are medical problems.

SamT wrote on April 01, 2009 11:59 AM: Tax Hell.

Legalize it. Forget the taxes.

greenferret wrote on April 01, 2009 05:02 AM: It's time to end the failed, destructive policy of marijuana prohibition.
Tell Obama and your elected representatives that marijuana should be legalized and taxed:
http://tinyurl.com/LegalizeTaxIt

Rasputin wrote on March 31, 2009 09:34 PM: Eddie Gin:

First, Rasputin is a *name*, and as such, starts with a capital 'R'.

Second - as per your editorial quote: "Late Sunday, a Border Patrol Air and Marine helicopter spotted two vehicles traveling north from the International Boundary Fence after the drivers apparently used ramps to get over the barrier, a Border Patrol spokesman said."

Notice the fact that they came from Mexico; the marijuana did NOT originate in Nevada, as the LVMPD have been quoted as saying they're concerned about.

Lastly, your math is spotty at best: "Drug haul: 5 tons worth $7 million", then "A total of 502 bundles of marijuana weighing 6,792 pounds were seized from the three vehicles with an estimate value of $5,433,600".

6,700 pounds is less than 3.5 tons; at that exchange rate, 3.5 tons (valued at the above mentioned $7M divided by 5tons = $1.4M/ton) would be worth approximately $4.9M.

county paramedics do all the drugs they want to wrote on March 31, 2009 05:41 PM:
read for yourself. since you pay millions of dollars for the drugs out of tax dollars.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/10228251.html

Eddie Gin wrote on March 31, 2009 03:56 PM: Memo to rasputin: Por favor, follow the MONEY ( Drug haul: 5 tons worth $7 million).=


Published: Monday, March 30, 2009 4:33 PM MDT
Green Valley News

Border Patrol agents seized nearly five tons of marijuana worth more than $7 million in several busts since Friday.

Late Sunday, a Border Patrol Air and Marine helicopter spotted two vehicles traveling north from the International Boundary Fence after the drivers apparently used ramps to get over the barrier, a Border Patrol spokesman said.

Agents on the ground intercepted two pickups; a third was discovered by using an infrared scope just north of the same location. A total of 502 bundles of marijuana weighing 6,792 pounds were seized from the three vehicles with an estimate value of $5,433,600.

Liquor sales might be hit by as much as %40. Do you think Liquor is going to just sit back. Follow the money.

amanda wrote on March 31, 2009 02:44 PM: Why the quotation marks around medicine. Isn't it medicine lvrj?

SamT wrote on March 31, 2009 02:28 PM: @patrick: Obama will do nothing of the sort. He signaled a shift in his position, last Thursday.

If he is pro-legalization, he isn't showing it.

Your President is a liar.

patrick wrote on March 31, 2009 02:24 PM: "“What the president said during the campaign ... will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement,” he said. “What (Obama) said during the campaign ... is now American policy.”

Obama indicated during the presidential campaign that he supported the controlled use of marijuana for medical purposes, saying he saw no difference between medical marijuana and other pain-control drugs.

“My attitude is if the science and the doctors suggest that the best palliative care and the way to relieve pain and suffering is medical marijuana, then that’s something I’m open to,” Obama said in November 2007 at a campaign stop in Audubon, Iowa. “There’s no difference between that and morphine when it comes to just giving people relief from pain.”

White House spokesman Nick Shapiro hinted at the policy shift shortly after the California raids, telling The Washington Times that the dispensaries were legal in California and that the Obama administration’s stance was that “federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws.”

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