I've always liked the catch phrase of the late, great Tom Magliozzi:

Unencumbered by the Thought Process

or the Boston Brahminated Latin version:

Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis

Since we are of a kind when it comes to most LEO issues, I am sincerely interested in your thoughts on marijuana legalization...

"Party Uber Alles" Even if it kills...

I'm Idahoan, and there ARE actually people starting to publicly push for some degree of legalization around here, but I'm pretty pessimistic about their hopes. Dems/Libs are damn near an endangered species here, so I don't see it happening for a long time.

I'm telling locals to forget the morality and look at the economics. Our jails/prisons are bulging at the seams with people jailed over drug violations, which requires a ridiculous portion of our state and county budgets. Hopefully some day that argument will resonate with taxpayers, but not in the short run.

Well firstly, for many reasons, I hope you are here to see it, if it happens, even if it is well into the future.

I say "if it happens", but frankly I expect, with the exception of maybe Utah, most states will legalize medical or recreational marijuana in the next 10 years or so.

You wrote, the last time we discussed this that your local cops profited from nabbing cars with weed as you were surrounded by legalized states - I'm guessing Utah fits that bill - as does Idaho. I'm not fishing, you don't need to confirm or deny. My guess is that Idaho will legalize well before Utah however.

This is moot of course if there is a big Democratic wave in 2018 and 2020 and legalization at the federal level is a major issue - it would, as CW has frequently stated, be a good one for Democrats as it will match with their base's thinking, and probably prompt some reaction from the evangelical right wing (I'm assuming libertarians would be for legalization, and the country club crowd would be mostly indifferent).

Of course I am me. Who else would I be??

But we're discussing Veronica's off-topic trolling...

Yea, well you know how trolls are....

10,12,15,16,21,22,25

STFU

:D

STFU -- Subject Tangent Fundamentally Unrelated :)

So give me a few of the "many says" I'm wrong (about the shame thing).

Shirley, you can't be serious...

Veronica NEVER backs up anything she says with facts...

You could have answered it in the commentary it was in..

But you had to drag it forward and make it off topic...

That's what trolls do...

Come to think of it, trolls ALSO use phony names...

So, the facts CLEARLY show that you are the troll..

Over 15 OFF TOPIC comments could have been avoided if you didn't troll the group like you always do...

You could have answered it in the commentary it was in..

But you had to drag it forward and make it off topic...

That's what trolls do...

Come to think of it, trolls ALSO use phony names...

So, the facts CLEARLY show that you are the troll..

Over 15 OFF TOPIC comments could have been avoided if you didn't troll the group like you always do...

Sounds about right to me.. There are a few here who use phony names..

And the idea that they are ashamed of what they are saying makes a lot of sense..

Says the moron who dragged the topic here from a totally unrelated commentary.. :D

Says the troll who hijacked my comment to CW in answer to his question about comment threads, but then you've never been one to miss an opportunity to prove your unmitigated ignorance. :)

So give me a few of the "many says" I'm wrong (about the shame thing).

XOXOXO

So give me a few of the "many says" I'm wrong (about the shame thing).

XOXOXO

Forgive me, but I never did understand that.

You are forgiven.

Always seemed to me that the only possible justification for writing opinion pieces pseudonymously is being ashamed of what you're saying, right???

Wrong... in so many ways. :)

She has a point there.. Victoria is known for taking information and paying someone to research the person that kicks her ass...

Michael is known for his fabrication, trolling posts, and unmitigated ignorance. One obviously would NOT purchase that which one could obtain from sources. :D

Forgive me, but I never did understand that. Always seemed to me that the only possible justification for writing opinion pieces pseudonymously is being ashamed of what you're saying, right???

She has a point there.. Victoria is known for taking information and paying someone to research the person that kicks her ass...

She then attempts to extort people in an effort to silence them...

I know.. What kind of luser, what kind of low-life scumbag does that??

I give you our Victoria...

Says the moron who dragged the topic here from a totally unrelated commentary.. :D

Yer not very good at this, Victoria.. :D

Thanks to you I think I might have've finally figured out what "Victoria's Secret" really is - that she ain't very smart!!

hehehehehehe So factually accurate...

Thanks to you I think I might have've finally figured out what "Victoria's Secret" really is - that she ain't very smart!!

Smart enough NOT to use my real name on a comment blog, old man. :D

Again with the whining and projection from Mugshot Michale?! Yes, we know your history and how the facts hurt you, but that is off topic so... STFU. :D

Thanks to you I think I might have've finally figured out what "Victoria's Secret" really is - that she ain't very smart!!

STFU

And THAT is off topic to this particular commentary....

OK, I see I am going to have to start cracking down on completely unrelated tangents here in the comment threads. What does this possibly have to do with the price of tea in China, or the taxes addressed in the article?

I need a new acronym. "Off Topic, Ignored" (OT;I) perhaps? Anyone else have suggestions??

Since you asked, I have a suggestion. You could simply respond in shorthand using the acronym STFU.

STFU -- Subject Tangent Fundamentally Unrelated

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy

Dave's not here, man.

Heh.

OK, your comment was pretty funny, have to admit!

:-)

Kick [3] -

Nice! Didn't know anyone still remembered The Shadow...

Here are some other good ones:

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
- Henry Ford

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
- Barack Obama

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
- Carl Sagan

C. R. Stucki [4] -

It may not be happening where you are, but it is definitely happening, that's for sure. It was built into the design from the beginning, in fact. Peruse that Anslinger link, and pay close attention to the jazz musician references, for a start....

-CW

It will no doubt happen here, but I may not be here to see it.

Reversing the marijuana tide is the least of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III's "weed" troubles as Poor Jeff has done gone and allowed his mouth to get him deep into the weeds. You would think that a man of Jeff's "stature" would know that the United States gathers signals intelligence of Russian nationals.

"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay." ~ The Shadow