Vent time.....

[Sayoc01]

I have a no.of guns & knives....I carry EVERY day! I just read about "legalizing"certain drugs! People say.....everyone smokes,it's safe....does NOT make people violent etc. Then you see our Reps....say they want to legalize etc.Then I'm with LEO friends & ask THEIR professional views....crime will go up,more robberies ,more,car accidents etc. I have seen what can happen....what's wrong with people are they blind or just stupid!!
If I had my way I would put every dealer against the wall!
End of rant.....sorry guys......got to get more ammo!!
Jim

 

[gregintenn]

There's a lot of money in the illicit drug trade. You know Uncle Sam is going to want a cut of that.

 

[ralph7]

Sounds like you need a drink.

 

[Salty RI]

Sounds like you need a drink.

I could use one too.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I also feel it makes no sense. As for the "war on drugs" you have huge Federal and State bureaucracy's that rely on the so called "war" for their funding. So guess what, they don't want to win it!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Don't worry they won't legalize drugs in the forseeable future. If they ever did it would plunge this country into a deep depression what with the sudden influx of government workers now suddenly jobless who's very existence depends on keeping drugs illegal. Would kill me for sure-I'd have to start chasing ambulances for a living. You can thank Nixon for this one.
There is something called the law of unintended consequences. We have seen the unintended consequences of the war on drugs and it ain't pretty. As far as doing anything extreme the other way , unfortunately I just don't trust the American populace-for the most part they don't know how to handle the freedoms we already have. No matter what we do, I fear we are all jolly well ****ed.

 

[5-Shot]

The drug war seems to be working about like Prohibition. What a surprise!

Ed

 

[pharmer]

I was in Colorado for a couple weeks back n June. Weed is legal. Folks didn't act any different than anywhere else. Nobody on street corners trying to get me "hooked." My son has been living there for a couple years and told me "Most folks aren't interested." Except for .gov types who make a living grinding folks through the legal gearbox. I check the mugshots every day around here and 90%+ are VOP, simple possession, "driving while knowingly license suspended," and "failure to appear." It would be extraordinarily profitable except 3/4 of "offenders" are broke *** bustouts. Joe

 

[RobertJ.]

I was in Colorado for a couple weeks back n June. Weed is legal. Folks didn't act any different than anywhere else. Nobody on street corners trying to get me "hooked." My son has been living there for a couple years and told me "Most folks aren't interested." Except for .gov types who make a living grinding folks through the legal gearbox. I check the mugshots every day around here and 90%+ are VOP, simple possession, "driving while knowingly license suspended," and "failure to appear." It would be extraordinarily profitable except 3/4 of "offenders" are broke *** bustouts. Joe

Since weed became legal here on July 1st, crime still hasn't skyrocketed. And I doubt we'll ever have more violations with weed that than we already do with drinking and driving.

News sells better when you can sensationalize it.

 

[RobertJ.]

...I was born and raised in Colorado...now I am a virtual prisoner here because I am required to have Colorado license plates on my car...my wife and I used to travel coast to coast on vacations in our car...no more...don't want to be stopped and searched every few miles after we cross state lines...nothing to hide...my wife and I don't smoke it...never have...but being a believer in the 4th amendment...being searched without probable cause doesn't cut it with me...so here we sit...

Sucks to be you!

Is that really what's going to happen if you have plates from a state that has legal weed? Are there any instances that back that up, or is it just speculation?

I think it might make a difference if you look like Cheech and Chong.

 

[Bill Bates]

We hear anti gun folks saying more open carry laws, increasing shall issue concealed carry permit laws are always going to lead to the "Wild West". We all know that isn't true. I suspect all the horror we hear from the keep drugs illegal people also won't come true.

I suspect most people that don't do drugs now would continue to not drugs. The world as we know it wouldn't come to an end. If Utah made pot legal tomorrow (not likely to happen) I would still have no desire to go get high and I suspect most hear feel the same.

The Libertarian in me tends think more liberty and freedom is never a bad thing.

minor note... until the powers to be decide they can generate more taxes from make drugs legal than by scaring people so they can collect taxes to fight drugs; drugs will stay illegal. AS with most things it is all about the money, in the case of drugs made by both sides.

okay that was my rant for the day.

 

[Absalom]

...I was born and raised in Colorado...now I am a virtual prisoner here because I am required to have Colorado license plates on my car...my wife and I used to travel coast to coast on vacations in our car...no more...don't want to be stopped and searched every few miles after we cross state lines...nothing to hide...my wife and I don't smoke it...never have...but being a believer in the 4th amendment...being searched without probable cause doesn't cut it with me...so here we sit...

No disrespect intended, but unless you have actual experiences to back that up, I think that's just a little bit paranoid.

Pot has been legal here de facto in the form of very lax medical marihuana laws for a long time. More recently, we have legal recreational pot in Washington and Oregon. Now I have been driving all over the West including Canada and never been pulled over, let alone searched without pc, despite my Oregon plates. So to take your concern seriously I'd have to see some pretty convincing data.

 

[Arik]

...I was born and raised in Colorado...now I am a virtual prisoner here because I am required to have Colorado license plates on my car...my wife and I used to travel coast to coast on vacations in our car...no more...don't want to be stopped and searched every few miles after we cross state lines...nothing to hide...my wife and I don't smoke it...never have...but being a believer in the 4th amendment...being searched without probable cause doesn't cut it with me...so here we sit...

If that was the case how are people getting our of FL? I flew to FL and took a rental back to Pa. A FL license plate car with rental stickers is a stereotypical drug car. In the 20hr drive not one cop stopped me or even followed me.

I think you're overblowing the whole thing

 

[RobertJ.]

now I am a virtual prisoner here

Only by your own choice.

 

[RobertJ.]

...so now I am required to look a certain way to cross state lines in the "land of the free, home of the brave"?...

If that's how you want to see it, then yes.

If you and your wife look like grandma and grandpa, you're less likely to be searched than if you look like Cheech and Chong.

Wow, did I really have to explain that?

 

[Absalom]

...as I stated in my last post...do a Google search for "license plate profiling"...it's not paranoia or my imagination...it is fact...

I did. Pretty much every story that pops up comes back to that one case of Darien Roseen, who sued the Idaho State Police alleging "license plate profiling", and dropped his lawsuit this spring, so we'll never know. And a few news stories along the lines of "Some readers have told us...". There are no data. Pretty thin basis to make yourself a prisoner in your own state.

 

[doublesharp]

Elderly couple complains after traffic stop turns into drug inte - NBC12 - WWBT - Richmond, VA News On Your Side

OMG...A Georgia deputy sheriff acted like a redneck bully!

That's only been happening since the wheel was invented.

And the couple was headed home to North Carolina. I thought your point was Colorado tags get harassed?

 

[Bill Bates]

Elderly couple complains after traffic stop turns into drug inte - NBC12 - WWBT - Richmond, VA News On Your Side

I suspect Walton Counties Sheriff Departments insurance carrier isn't going to be happy and a lawyer or two will make some money.

 

[DeathGrip]

If that was the case how are people getting our of FL? I flew to FL and took a rental back to Pa. A FL license plate car with rental stickers is a stereotypical drug car. In the 20hr drive not one cop stopped me or even followed me.

I think you're overblowing the whole thing

Years back tourist were getting killed because all of the rental plates were the same. They'd get lost off of 95 in the wrong neighborhood and were easily spotted. Also, there's not a lot of Germans in Overtown.

Now a rental looks just like any other car.

 

[eveled]

I believe in civil liberty.

Want to do drugs? Go for it. Who am I to stop you?

I want to carry a gun. Who are you to stop me?

We are supposed to be free in this country.