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Post by shatnerswig on May 15, 2010 15:40:32 GMT 10
88 Share By Steve Elliott in Culture, Growing Friday, May. 14 2010 @ 8:25AM426 diggs digg Graphic: NORML The state of Utah had what it thought was a brilliant idea to eradicate marijuana farming on public land: Ask citizen snitches to report any pot patches they run across.
The state made it easy with a website with helpful links to assist its deputized citizenry in identifying marijuana and signs of grow operations, reports Greg Campbell at dscriber.
"Did you know marijuana is being illegally grown in Utah?" the site, with a keen grasp of the obvious, ominously warns. "Have you ever been hiking or camping and seen what looks like an illegal marijuana growing operation? We have created this website to make it easier for people to report this illegal activity, so we can crack down and keep these illegal rugs out of our state and off our streets."
Yeah, it seemed like a great idea. That is, until NORML posted a story about Utah's misguided efforts. Within 24 hours, pot-friendly visitors flooded the site with fake tips.
The NORML article noted that while nobody supports the misuse of public lands for growing marijuana, there is a better way to deal with it -- removing the penalties for cultivation on private land, instead of turning hikers and campers into snitches
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Post by Wes on May 15, 2010 15:59:58 GMT 10
Removing the penalties for cultivation on private land, instead of turning hikers and campers into snitches.
Yeah Shatner I agree, change the law not the people.
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Post by Wes Gear on May 15, 2010 19:17:39 GMT 10
even those who do not smoke are finding these heavy handed tactics regarding marijuana as being ridiculous. those who champion these tactics seem like relics from the past. no one is taken in by the reefer madness attitude that still runs rampant in the judicial system.
whenever i see some dashboard camera video of a cop high fiving other cops because they just ruined the life of some college kid with a quarter pound of green hidden in his trunk or arrest some hardworking parent for a roach in their ashtray i lose faith in mankind.
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Post by TheDuck on May 15, 2010 19:43:55 GMT 10
I just wanna rip their sacks off : D
Am still keeping the faith to a point.
That weed movie is a must see, even if its just for the traumatised Dog lol (you'll get what I mean)
Even the guy who started the Crips is grabbin' some medical marijuana, all that medical sh*t is a fallacy though imo, sure it works and is benefitial for some people but why should half of the people have to lie to get high lol
I hate lying.
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