COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-28 12:34 PM |
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Yes! Stop these crooks. Way to go SB shore patrols.
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COMMENT 302541
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2012-07-28 12:45 PM |
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The police crack down on the local growers/dispensary's and this is what you get. So next time a story comes out about a dispensary bust don't say "great work SBPD!!" Because some people from south of the border are saying great work too and shipping the next boat. The black market has returned. Great work SBPD!!!
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COMMENT 302544
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2012-07-28 12:51 PM |
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yeah 10 mil if it was cali grown. this mexi brick weed.... 4 bills a pound at most. you sbpd find a few bundles and get all wet. dont you know how the cartels work? send 15 boats up the coast, 1-3 get caught, cost of doing biz but they still had a successful night.
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COMMENT 302546
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2012-07-28 12:57 PM |
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Wow I'm just wondering how long it would take for SBar to absorb 3 tons of pot? The illegals would 'disappear' in no time at all, and no street value was placed on them---? This stuff must be split up somewhere local and shipped around, hope SBPD can get some idea of the connections and make a big sting! I agree with 541 on some levels; if everybody would/could just grow their own a lot of this mess would shut down---but probably not the illegals!
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COMMENT 302549
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2012-07-28 01:08 PM |
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Given the weight (6000 lbs) and street value ($10,000,000), the value of one ounce would be $60 and 1/8 ounce would be $7.44 . It appears the quality of these bricks would have no comparison to the high potency cultivar strains with special individual names that the shops have. Perhaps containing herbicides and pesticides as well, the market for dirt weed from the other side of the border attracts a different consumer market. This therefore is an unlikely replacement for dispensery products and is just a continuation of the supply that has been going on for many years, just with a slightly different delivery system. The suppliers have been so successful over the years they can afford to buy multiple super high performance brand new outboard motors as disposables, again and again. How did that war on drugs go ?
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COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-28 01:52 PM |
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So many dependent druggies. So much dope. The mind boggles at the need. And for those claiming decriminalization was successful in Portugal did not do their homework. The decriminalized heroin because Portugal was having the largest increases in HIV anywhere in Europe and tried to get this dirty needle population into diversion clinics. Pot is still illegal in Portugal and they have no intention of making it anything else but. Facts can be such a jealous mistress.
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COMMENT 302566
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2012-07-28 02:02 PM |
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Decriminalization and legalization might not be the same thing, 536, but it wasn't just heroin they decriminalized. Facts can be such a jealous mistress.
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COMMENT 302576P
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2012-07-28 02:29 PM |
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wow, SBSO is getting ripped off if they're paying $1600/lb for their mexican brick weed.
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COMMENT 302583
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2012-07-28 03:16 PM |
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It's ignorant to compare the damage that processed heroin can do to the harmless cannabis plant and its beneficial cannabinoids.
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COMMENT 302584
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2012-07-28 03:17 PM |
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Narrow minds are easily boggled.
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COMMENT 302587P
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2012-07-28 03:24 PM |
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It's delusional to think pot is harmless. It's more carcinogenic than tobacco, because it's usually held in the lungs longer, and it has been found to exacerbate psychoses. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2419713.stm http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/cannabis-may-cause-schizophrenia-like-brain-changes/
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COMMENT 302602
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2012-07-28 04:15 PM |
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There is no way that boat could carry 6000 lbs of weed. Either in weight or volume with people in it.
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COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-28 04:46 PM |
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Still looking for that country where pot is legal and freely traded on the retail market. Gosh, none do. Wonder why that is? Surely not all countries are as anal and upright as the US. What gives. Don't they know how enlightened this trade would be and how health giving its open access would bring to their populace?
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COMMENT 302576P
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2012-07-28 04:56 PM |
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yes, 587P, it can cause psychosis in some patients but is benign to most. similar to how eating shellfish or peanuts can kill some people but we wouldn't consider them deadly. smoking marijuana is not the only way to benefit from it. inhaling the crude combustion elements of ANYTHING is bad for you. i'm sure smoking newspaper or firewood is worse for you...
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COMMENT 302626
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2012-07-28 05:47 PM |
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549: Actually the price per ounce would be a little over $104. Sixteen ounces per pound, 6000 x 16= 96000 ounces. $10,000,000 divided by 96000 = $104.16, still pretty cheap though.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-07-28 05:52 PM |
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One thing I totally agree with the United States is very Anal especally it's public officals.. Felix Unger is our Messah.
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COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-28 06:25 PM |
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It was heroin and cocaine in Portugal. And they did see pot use go up after they required diversion of former hard drug addicts into treatment programs, or else face criminal penalties and fines. I guess some would call that a "medical" benefit for pot. Stopped some of the heroin, but increased the pot. Addictions: increased anger, blame, threats - all the same whether it is pot or alcohol. If one was not threatened by the loss of pot in their daily lives, these thread would starve to death. If the rest of us did not feel threatened by the increasing numbers of unfunny pot slackers living off the rest of our labors, we would dry up and go away too. Truth in both these statements.
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COMMENT 302641
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2012-07-28 06:43 PM |
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Wherever there is pot being grown
We will be there
Wherever there is pot being sold
We will be there
Wherever there is pot being smoked
We will be there
For WE ARE THE THREE AMIGOS
(turn heads and cough)
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COMMENT 302643
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2012-07-28 06:44 PM |
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I think Roger knows what I am talking about!
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COMMENT 302665P
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2012-07-28 09:02 PM |
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Grow it locally, make it legal, and tax it. Local jobs, local economy, and revenue for the state.
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FLICKA
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2012-07-29 07:15 AM |
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I still can't believe anyone thinks pot is so "dangerous", alcohol is 10xs worse and legal. Drunks turn into morons and many get violent. The drink itself can ruin the liver, causing a huge number of deaths annually. And then we have the driving accidents!
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COMMENT 302576P
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2012-07-29 08:28 AM |
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not to mention all the recent rapists using alcohol to incapacitate their victims.
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COMMENT 302723P
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2012-07-29 08:49 AM |
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Quite a mess that has been created. What business(es) would the cartels get involved in when we take away their pot profits by legalizing pot? Doubtful that the cartels will just go away-they will just look for another high profit illegal business to enter. We will just have another new problem to deal with. With regard to the alcohol verses pot comparsions, two stupid self destructive behaviors don't make a right.
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COMMENT 302727
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2012-07-29 09:07 AM |
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723p - we already know the answer to that question. Cartels are now strongly engaging in human trafficking. Keep pot illegal to stop human slavery!
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COMMENT 302584
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2012-07-29 10:15 AM |
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So much hysteria from the anti-pot contingency, I'd swear they just made the movie, "Reefer Madness" last week....... Sorry to have to beak this news to some of you, but humans have been seeking alter states of reality since the beginning of our existence and pot is one of the more benign substances used. The "War on Drugs" is more like a War on Humanity. What a total failure, imprisoning millions, costing tax payers billions and creating profiteering opportunities for black markets.
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COMMENT 302749P
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2012-07-29 10:30 AM |
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My mother was killed by a drunk driver in the late 80s- by the way, a district attorney refused to go look for after the guy escaped back to Mexico. So many dangerous things are legal and for sale in America-it's absurd. Either we can continue to make rich these big, illegal & foreign growers, or we could up-date the law with common sense and then step into a more logical world. The nation is, after all, broke. We need to change laws to create more "markets" and safety. By the way, legalizing gay marriage would also be a boon to the wedding industry, which has been bad for about four years now. Just saying...
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COMMENT 302785
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2012-07-29 12:03 PM |
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@584-- The war on drugs has also been a big money maker for the prison/industrial complex. Check out the new north county jail. Is that really the solution to our problems? END THE DRUG WAR NOW!
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COMMENT 302862P
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2012-07-29 07:55 PM |
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@785, What new north SB County jail? What are you smokin?
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COMMENT 302892
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2012-07-30 07:27 AM |
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FLICKA has the classic illogical argument. Even IF it could be shown that alcohol is 10x worse than marijuana, that is no reason to LEGALIZE marijuana. That's a reason to make alcohol ILLEGAL. Which ain't happening. So move on already. To the stoners out there....if you want to see marijuana legalized, the only way to do it is to allow big pharma to control and sell it. Which for all practical purposes cannot happen, because pot can be grown anywhere. For the same reason that oil companies refuse to allow our gov't to make laws requiring cars to not have internal combustion engines, big pharma will never allow our gov't to legalize pot. Pot use among high schoolers has climbed every year and is shockingly high (pun intended), just as our ranking in the world in school performance has decreased every year. The two are definitely correlated.
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COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-30 09:43 AM |
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STOP DRUG USE NOW. (Then there is no need for a War on Drugs.)
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COMMENT 302996
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2012-07-30 01:32 PM |
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892: I'd moreso contribute the significant dumbing down of kids to things other than JUST drugs. Kids have been smoking pot for decades and some fail, some don't. Notice that up until recent, kids didn't have the same social media devices they do today. The number of factors contributing to development immediately falsifies your classic illogical argument that drugs are the sole cause of problems with kids.
549: Your price figures assume that every dealer and middleman is accepting wholesale and making no profit.
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COMMENT 302536
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2012-07-30 03:23 PM |
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Using any sort of chemical to abort the normal emotional and cognitive development of young people is a recipe for disaster. Life does have pain and struggles until one finds the right (non-chemically dependent) path for themselves. And you can't make up for lost years to drugs or booze that stunted that necessary emotional seasoning.
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