Marijuana = terrorism?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-15 06:43pm

From today's Toronto Star:

U.S. drug czar Joyhn Walters frowns on Canada's plan to decriminalize marijuana possession.

The move could unleash a flood of pot into the United States, he warns, and provide funds for terrorists. In retaliation, the Americans might insist on careful inspection of all Canadians crossing the border, causing long delays and disrupting business.

...

I am fucking tired of American politicians trying to tie EVERY GODDAMNED THING THEY CAN FIND into the "war on Terror". So now Canada's move to decriminalize marijuana is going to "provide funds for terrorists"?!?!? Goddammit, what issue is safe from being co-opted into the war on Terror?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-05-15 06:59pm

Considering that Americans will be getting their pot from Canada because it will be cheaper, they will be funding Canadian corporations. The Columbian and other South American pot will be in less demand, so any money going to the warlords and terrorist will be severely cut.

I would like to say thank you to Canada for their efforts against terrorism.

The Albino Raven · Post by **The Albino Raven** » 2003-05-15 07:16pm

U.S. drug czar Joyhn Walters frowns on Canada's plan to decriminalize marijuana possession.

The move could unleash a flood of pot into the United States, he warns, and provide funds for terrorists. In retaliation, the Americans might insist on careful inspection of all Canadians crossing the border, causing long delays and disrupting business.

seriously, what is the government thinking? Havent they realized yet that pot is not where the real money is, and IF drug money is as directly connected to terrorism as the government claims it is, then the real money still wouldn't be coming from pot, but rather from cocaine, heroin, and other hard drugs. Yet another example of a puritanicak government trying to demonize things by connecting them to unrelated or somewhat unrelated events.

The Albino Raven · Post by **The Albino Raven** » 2003-05-15 07:18pm

GAHH!!! Could a moderator please fix my quote error? The second piece of text was written by me, not a quote.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-05-15 07:27pm

A flood of pot? Considering the amount of pot available Id say we are already underwater.

As for funding terrorism, that is fricking silly. So I guess the FDA should not regulate tobacco, because once we do, terrorists will smuggle it for funds.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-15 07:37pm

The US should stick their head out of Canada's affairs...

Oh no, pot supports terrorism! Maybe we should stop using oil too

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-15 08:22pm

time to make pot legal here, too. tax money for the war.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-15 08:26pm

Must...kill...drug war...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-15 08:27pm

Darth Wong wrote:From today's Toronto Star:
U.S. drug czar Joyhn Walters frowns on Canada's plan to decriminalize marijuana possession.

The move could unleash a flood of pot into the United States, he warns, and provide funds for terrorists. In retaliation, the Americans might insist on careful inspection of all Canadians crossing the border, causing long delays and disrupting business.

...
I am fucking tired of American politicians trying to tie EVERY GODDAMNED THING THEY CAN FIND into the "war on Terror". So now Canada's move to decriminalize marijuana is going to "provide funds for terrorists"?!?!? Goddammit, what issue is safe from being co-opted into the war on Terror?

Maybe that idiot forgot about the Iran-Contragate stuff.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-05-15 08:55pm

Darth Wong wrote: I am fucking tired of American politicians trying to tie EVERY GODDAMNED THING THEY CAN FIND into the "war on Terror". So now Canada's move to decriminalize marijuana is going to "provide funds for terrorists"?!?!? Goddammit, what issue is safe from being co-opted into the war on Terror?

Where's Axis Kast?? He can probably prove how this mary-jane money eventually filters back into the coffers of Al-Qaeda!

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-15 09:32pm

This whole "Marijuana supports Terrorism" thing spawned from Afgan's large opium crops. They are always are trying to find a way to make anti-drug comertials for weed, but it's not as easy as Crack, Heroin, or even cigerettes, so they get desprate and since opium is grown in Afganistan and Afganistan supports terror, then weed supports terrorism. Uhh, yeah theirs a thirds step in there, but its, uhhhhh, clasified.

Striderteen · Post by **Striderteen** » 2003-05-15 09:36pm

See, the problem with marijuana is that, medically speaking...there's NOTHING wrong with it unless you're too weak-minded to keep your use within reasonable limits. It's like alcohol; it's not physically addictive, and it's not harmful unless you overdose.

Now cigarettes, cocaine and other "hard" drugs are a whole nother story.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-05-15 09:48pm

"Marijuana money sponsors terrorism. Because we say so, mmmkay?"

"What we say: The anti-drug"

Considering that there's already a good amount of pot in America, decriminalizing possesion isn't going to create many more users.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-15 09:57pm

Connecting marijuana to terrorism is sort of like playing Six Degrees of Seperation.

NapoleonGH · Post by **NapoleonGH** » 2003-05-15 10:21pm

Umm, since the Reagan era war on drugs began the vast majority of weed in the US is domestically grown, and the stuff that is foreign tends to be of low quality comparatively.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/c ... ia11.shtml

here is the relevant article. Basically weed is the US's #1 cash crop. No reason to import from canada.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-16 12:07am

Silence, all of you. Non conformity support terrorists. If you all conformed properly in every possibul way the terrorists would stand out clearly for the snipers.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-05-16 12:13am

Legal Canadian pot supports legal Canadian corporations. Therefore, it supports terrorism? Where is the connection in this? Does Canadian beer support terrorism also? How about Canadian hockey?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-05-16 12:30am

Wicked Pilot wrote:Legal Canadian pot supports legal Canadian corporations. Therefore, it supports terrorism? Where is the connection in this? Does Canadian beer support terrorism also? How about Canadian hockey?

I guess they didn't consider that. After all, they can't let facts get in the way of their personal prejiduces, can they?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-05-16 12:38am

Darth Wong wrote: I am fucking tired of American politicians trying to tie EVERY GODDAMNED THING THEY CAN FIND into the "war on Terror". So now Canada's move to decriminalize marijuana is going to "provide funds for terrorists"?!?!? Goddammit, what issue is safe from being co-opted into the war on Terror?

I'm sorry sir, but you are supporting the Terrorists. We have to ask you to come with us.

And the other thing - If its being grown LEGALLY in Canada and sold LEGALLY in Canada - HOW THE FUCK DO THE TERRORISTS GET MONEY FROM IT?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-05-16 12:39am

And of course, terrorists wouldn't make money smuggling drugs AT ALL if the government didn't feel it was necessary to regulate what people put in their own bodies. But I suppose if you're someone like Joyhn Walters, with a big fat bureaucratic empire to protect, that inconvenient little fact must be washed out by whatever hysteria you can come up with this week. God damn, if there's any issue that makes me want to start cleaning the gun collection while muttering the Declaration of Independence ("That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"), it's this one.

By the way, "What we say: The Anti-Drug" is going in my sig.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-05-16 01:06am

*Looks at Fallout timeline* Just another half-century or so before we annex Canada...

And to pad-out my late-night not-exactly-on-topic-but-not-exactly-spam post:
Pornography is my anti-drug.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-05-16 01:13am

weemadando wrote: And the other thing - If its being grown LEGALLY in Canada and sold LEGALLY in Canada - HOW THE FUCK DO THE TERRORISTS GET MONEY FROM IT?

Well they would they would be taxing you wouldnt they? Oh wait your probably talking about the ISLAMIC terrorirsts.

And of course, terrorists wouldn't make money smuggling drugs AT ALL if the government didn't feel it was necessary to regulate what people put in their own bodies. But I suppose if you're someone like Joyhn Walters, with a big fat bureaucratic empire to protect, that inconvenient little fact must be washed out by whatever hysteria you can come up with this week.

Dont be silly, the shining protectors of the public good are just replacing a "bad fact" with a "good fact". Also, pay no attention to the Orwellian shiver that went up your spine when you realized that .

God damn, if there's any issue that makes me want to start cleaning the gun collection while muttering the Declaration of Independence ("That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"), it's this one.

That won't really matter, because according to contemporary government the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, which reads "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." really means that the people do not have the right to bear arms.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-05-16 01:36am

Sure it does, if you define terrorism as "Tie Dye Clad long haired neo hippie buying new hemp necklaces and orante glassware."

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-16 03:28am

Maybe if we gave the terrorists pot thay wouldn't be bothered to commit terror.

"Suicide bombing, nah bugger it, I'm too maggoted."

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-05-16 03:47am

And I sincerly doubt that there are any more "Weathermen" for domestic growers to fund anyways....

Besides most of the ones that were wanted moved to Canada or Mexico in the first place. (Ok, I know a few kids from Costa Rico, whose parents used to be "Weathermen")

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