Here Come the Feds - Part 2 of n

I wonder if this pissing match will end if Colorado legalizes marijuana this upcoming election or if things will get worse. Either way this is bush league.

CAS- Nope. It will be as I stated in an earlier post (which apparently didn't make it in the RIU database restore)

It is called 'thinning the herd' prior to the final cattle drive. They do not have the resources to raid and attack *every* location at the same time, so they pick and choose targets much like wolves nipping at the heels of the slow calves. First they claimed they were enforcing the Federal 1000'ft Drug Free zone law. Liquor stores and pharmacies are all within those limits, but only they can sell death, it is both federally regulated and approved.

As I also stated, IF the initiatives pass, the Feds will strike back hard to make an example of either or both states. How? They immeidately cutoff federal funding to infrastructure, schools, work programs and anything else they can think of. Sounds like a perfect reason to seceed from the union! Even then they would usurp and sabotage anything positive that could come out of such a move.

The Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness^[3]

Historian Pauline Maier argues that this sentence “asserted one right, the right of revolution, which was, after all, the right Americans were exercising in 1776.” The chosen language was Thomas Jefferson’s way of incorporating ideas “explained at greater length by a long list of seventeenth-century writers that included such prominent figures as John Milton, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke, as well as a host of others, English and Scottish, familiar and obscure, who continued and, in some measure, developed that ‘Whig’ tradition in the eighteenth century.^[3]
This right to revolution in the Declaration was immediately followed with the observation that long practiced injustice is tolerated until serious, sustained assaults to the rights of the entire people accumulated to oppress them,^[4] then they could defend themselves.^[5][6] This justification had antecedents in the Two Treatises, 1690, Fairfax Resolves, 1774, Summary Views, 1774, Virginia Constitution, 1776, and Common Sense, 1776.^[7]

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; ... mankind are more disposed to suffer, ... than to right themselves by abolishing the forms ... accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing ... a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —^[8]

Gordon S. Wood quotes John Adams, “Only ‘repeated, multiplied oppressions’ placing it beyond all doubt ‘that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties,’ could warrant the concerted resistance of the people against their government.”^[9]

MacGuyver, I wish I could tell you you're full of shit, but the first X number of remakes of this movie didn't end so well. I think we're inching closer to the end of prohibition, but much of it will balance on how the first state to legalize will deal with the situation. As long as Suthers is our head legal man, we can't expect any fight against the feds. That is, unless it has to do with health care or any other issue that he disagrees with.

While I agree with the "thinning of the herd," I am almost certain that the Federal government would not take such extreme actions towards the first state to legalize marijuana. I think they would most likely keep playing their little power games and randomly busting dispensaries/growers. Regardless, it is all speculation at this point. It will be interesting to see how this year plays out. Either way, legalized or not legalized, it won't affect my growing at all

Originally Posted by ColdArmySoldier

While I agree with the "thinning of the herd," I am almost certain that the Federal government would not take such extreme actions towards the first state to legalize marijuana. I think they would most likely keep playing their little power games and randomly busting dispensaries/growers. Regardless, it is all speculation at this point. It will be interesting to see how this year plays out. Either way, legalized or not legalized, it won't affect my growing at all

Yo man , does your band play out( I'm too ripped to look/listen but it sounded intense while I did)? and fuck yes to the not affecting my growing either brother!
I just assume the band in your sig that says "my band virga" is a band you're in and is local, switch the letters around and ad one or two and it spell viagra man, I thought that was kinda cool.

I hate Feds, plain and simple. Fuckers have been screwing us for too long.... Makes me want to start planting beans EVERYWHERE I go!

Originally Posted by indipow82

I hate Feds, plain and simple. Fuckers have been screwing us for too long.... Makes me want to start planting beans EVERYWHERE I go!

Just make sure they are fems. Some of us are growing outdoors and don't want to get seeded.

Originally Posted by Medshed

Just make sure they are fems. Some of us are growing outdoors and don't want to get seeded.

You got it man! I have had a few girls go bad because someone down wind sucked and let a male go.. Frowns.... It would be funny to watch the locals and police go nuts all over town trying to pluck all the plants growing! Could use industrial hemp seed?? Hmm, this could be a real plan LOL