i just read this story titled drug czar gives warning: federal official calls marijuana growers dangerous terrorists. terrorists? i have to do a double take on the use of the word ‘terrorists’. really? are you serious? yes, i guess you are. John P. Walters, the director of National Drug Control Policy in the US states is noted as saying ‘the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn’t hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties.‘ wow. that is pretty heavy. so marijuana growers are classified as terrorists? i have yet to see any pot growers bomb embassies or fly planes into buildings. but he must know what he’s talking about. Mr. Walters, directing a message at marijuana smokers & users, is also quoted as saying “Don’t buy drugs. They fund violence and terror.” really? okay. i agree on that - funding violence and terror is a bad thing.
hey, speaking of funding violence and terror and the war on drugs, did you know that in may of 2001 the united states gave $43 million dollars to the Taliban government in afghanistan for declaring the cultivation of opium poppies illegal? yes. with US tax dollars that could have gone to any number of domestic policy issues, the bush administration gave $43 million dollars in funding to the Taliban regime. nevermind that, at that time, the Taliban government was giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden (wanted then for the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Africa), the Taliban government was providing a base of operations for the al-Qaeda network, the Taliban government was known for committing massive human rights violations, or that the opium ban was never enforced and was actually used by the Taliban to drive up opium prices and raise more money (brilliant marketing move though).
“Don’t buy drugs. They fund violence and terror.” i love the irony of our federal government. really. it’s fantastic! take the profit out of pot and legalize marijuana already. this war on drugs is just idiotic.
Sheesh. So now I’m not only a Jew, a Neo-Con, a Nazi, a Fascist and a warmonger, but I’m also a terrorist? Surely a few of those neutralise each other…uh, anyway, granted, some marijuana growers are (or there abouts) those kinds of people insofar as some criminals naturally feel the need to be involved in the whole pantheon of illegal activities, and that in a lot of the source countries, especially in the Middle East, terrorism and drug production are inseparable. But is it not conceivable that there are some of us that are interested in horticulture (and not just of illicit substances), who have no compulsion - indeed are morally outraged by - blowing themselves up in a bus-full of civilians with ballbearings covered in rat poison? Is it not conceivable that some of us despise the ‘dealers’ and the ’scene’ and would rather not have to mix with those kinds of people, preferring instead to cultivate a couple of funny-looking, spikey-serrated-leaved weeds in our ramshackle greenhouses?
I’d say: “Don’t support the Taliban. They fund violence and terror.”
fuck u man i now some cool ass cats that grow and thay love this country and would die for this country so fuck u
this guy’s the real terrorist.