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Wed Oct-19-11 03:28 PM
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If Tomatoes Were Made Illegal Today, People Would Be Killed Over Them Tomorrow |
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Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 03:31 PM by 20score
The Occupy Movement is about fairness. Economics, justice, health care, wars, living standards, etc., and if I could throw in just one more thing into the pot, it would be to end the war on drugs.
The only people who should be unfamiliar with the arguments against prohibition are people who have been in a coma for the past forty years or so. And even that is a lame excuse for supporting the Drug War. They just haven’t given it the ten minutes of critical thought it deserved. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana; in a free country adults should be able to make their own choices. Prohibition doesn’t work, makes the country a one of hypocrites and causes far more damage than the substances being banned. Many of the people making and supporting laws that put people in jail and damage lives have at least tried marijuana. That is the type of hypocrisy that makes Larry Craig’s hypocrisy seem damned near wholesome. And the list goes on and on.
It’s far past the time to end this failed, morally bankrupt policy. It doesn’t matter what the substance is that is being prohibited, if people think they have a right to it, there will be a black-market and the prohibition will do more harm than good. We’ve put tens of thousands of people in jail who don’t belong there, ruined countless of families, made the country a more unsafe place to live, given up many of our rights and spent a trillion dollars doing it. Since this movement is about fairness, what say we demand an end to the drug war? Or is this asking too much?
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Wed Oct-19-11 03:30 PM
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1. If tomatoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have tomatoes! |
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They would have to pull my tomatoes out of my cold dead hands before I would give them up.
Heck, they'd have to drain my veins. As an Italian-American who loves his pasta and tomato sauce, It's my life blood.
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Wed Oct-19-11 03:38 PM
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Wed Oct-19-11 04:23 PM
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5. I'm prepared, I've got my grow lights in the basement |
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I couldn't and wouldn't want to live without fresh tomatoes.
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Wed Oct-19-11 03:43 PM
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3. And the price of tomatoes would go through the roof as well. |
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The DEA or in this case FEA and corporate media would boast/report the destroying of ten - twenty cherry tomato plants as representing five - ten thousand dollars worth of high grade illegal tomatoes, justifying the taxpayer expense of keeping said FEA operating.
Thanks for the thread, 20score.
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Wed Oct-19-11 05:37 PM
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10. Thank you, Uncle Joe! |
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Wed Oct-19-11 03:55 PM
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4. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" would have a new meaning. |
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Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 04:02 PM by suede1
And everything you said is true. There would be a negative campaign against tomatoes, at our expense.(They used to believe tomatoes were poisonous, in case anyone didn't know.)
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Wed Oct-19-11 04:26 PM
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6. Only home grown tomatoes are worth dying for. |
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Those red, spheroid objects they sell in grocery stores ain't tomatoes.
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Wed Oct-19-11 08:23 PM
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13. They may LOOK like tomatos, but they surely don't TASTE like tomatos! |
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Wed Oct-19-11 10:01 PM
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Wed Oct-19-11 04:45 PM
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7. Very true! Hope people start talking about it. |
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Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 04:45 PM by punkin87
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Wed Oct-19-11 04:56 PM
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8. and the Obama mob would shut down medical tomato clinics to justify their own jobs lol nt |
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Wed Oct-19-11 05:01 PM
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Wed Oct-19-11 06:20 PM
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11. Nothing about the war on drugs has ever made any sense to me. |
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Why is Holder waging war on the MMJ outlets in California and Oregon?
I don't get it...:shrug:
As to your last question, of course it's asking too much!
:hi:
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Wed Oct-19-11 07:31 PM
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Wed Oct-19-11 10:35 PM
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17. It's about profit and power, the authorities are addicted to that and can't quit. |
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Thu Oct-20-11 08:24 AM
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23. It was also a convenient excuse |
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to erode our civil liberties. The Patriot Act has uncovered 15 terrorists, but over 1500 people for drugs.
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Wed Oct-19-11 08:55 PM
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14. You say To-may-toes... I say contraband. |
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Wed Oct-19-11 08:56 PM
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15. I wonder if the Topsy Turvy® would be considered drug paraphernalia? (n/t) |
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Wed Oct-19-11 11:36 PM
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18. I'm going to use that line. |
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Thu Oct-20-11 01:49 AM
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20. As I'll try to do often - highly recommend Current TV. |
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Thu Oct-20-11 04:09 AM
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21. But if you juggle tomatoes while driving you could wreck your car |
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...so I think tomatoes should be illegal.
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Thu Oct-20-11 10:45 AM
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24. Thay can have our tomatoes... |
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...when they pry them from our cold, dead hands!!!!:hippie: Solidarity99! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The worst would be that teenage boys would drive too slow.
Why do they outlaw a stupid weed that makes you laugh???
It's one reason for our failed economy:
They threw a lot of entrepreneurs in jail over the past 40 years. So much for their value of small business!!!
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Thu Oct-20-11 03:39 PM
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27. It's one reason for our failed economy: |
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They threw a lot of entrepreneurs in jail over the past 40 years.
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