Rising Hegemon
Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned comrade.
Uh...
Harral said the drill took 18 months to plan and cost the bureau alone $500,000. The other agencies covered their own costs.
The paper made only passing reference to the scenario's designation of pot growers as terrorist villians.
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Awesome! The war on drugs has officially merged with the war on terror. Can the war on Eastasia be far behind?
Somebody thought "Pineapple Express" was a documentary.
...pot growers as terrorist villians.
Oy. What more can be said?
I know someone that grows killer cherry tomatoes on their deck. I assume that I'll be notified when it's time to report them.
What? No Muslims were available? Bummer.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to be all "terrorist supervillain," but my brother is an EMT in Northern California who is often, particularly during fire season, called to go into areas where there are a lot of pot growing operations. Almost invariably, the places are booby-trapped; they'll find shotguns strung on wires, pits, etc. Definitely dangerous enough to put their lives in danger.
Pot growers, btw, voted against Prop 19 because they didn't want to be regulated.
Pot growers, btw, voted against Prop 19 because they didn't want to be regulated
No, they voted/organized against it because it was a shitty, poorly written proposition that would have concentrated most of the ability to own a grow farm in a few people's hands.
Why pro-pot activists oppose Prop. 19
Highlights:
--Prop. 19 forbids distributing cannabis except for those who manage to obtain a prohibitively expensive license.
--The cost for a commercial cannabis vending license in Oakland is $60,000 per year. A commercial grow license is a whopping $211,000 per year.
prohibition taught us nothing.
bob baer noted in his book whenever the cia tried to do anything, even minor procedural reforms, it first had to be vetted by "clients," aka representatives from corporate interests.
all of these various government agencies, they don't exist to serve the people's interest, they've been hijacked to serve corporate interests.
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