Comments on: Court Ruling Creates New Hurdle for Undercover Officers

By Knows Something on 09-24-08

If it’s any consolation to the drug task force, and to anyone who cares, there should be a shortage of marijuana in the Flathead Valley lately.  A very major importer/distributor of pounds was killed recently.

By StewieGriffen on 09-24-08

Good!

By john on 09-24-08

Yes, it is such a burden to comply with citizen’s constitutional rights.  We should just do away with the constitution so that the police state can take full effect.

By mat on 09-24-08

Wow, you hypocrites are quick to get drunk, but your all about people smoking weed going to jail.  Thats sad.  you people make me sad.  I’m glad their funding is getting cut.  Its stupid to waste our money going after people who arent hurting anyone.  nice christian values, but i guess a weed dealer doesnt count as a person.  Go have more abortions please

By Roark on 09-24-08

The “war on drugs” is nothing short than the war on an adults right to his own life. The result on this farce is higher taxes, violated rights, and the growth of the crime via the black market.

By soap box derbey on 09-24-08

I have to agree with mat on this one. Although I’m not a drug user of any kind, I do feel that it’s a waste of resources to fight marijuana use. Really, when was the last time someone smoking pot was arrested for fighting, raping women, etc.. etc… I think alcohol, and the problems it causes, is far worse than the problems marijuana causes. I know people say its a gateway drug, but I think alcohol is the real gateway drug. Tobacco is a gateway drug. I find smoking repulsive, and for some reason, people smoke cigarettes. Now that’s a gateway drug. If someone wants to put crap in their body, who are we to say no? Until it affects my family or myself, then I really don’t care what you inhale.

By Legalize It on 09-24-08

Amen Roark and Mat.  The drug war has been waged for 30 years and yet to this day any person can buy drugs at any Jr. Highschool in the nation.  Effective huh?!  I believe it started with a budget of 20 Million per year nationally.  Now we spend something like 2 Billion per year on it and there are more drugs on the streets than when we started and supposedly better qualities.  It is an excuse to violate the rights of citizens, search and seize.  The drug war is a waste of money.

Initially it was about racism.  The fact is that marijuana is pretty harmless, even compared to alcohol, which everyone in the flathead seems to abuse.  Back when they began fighting the war against marijuana with the “reefer madness”, people thought that it caused white women to dance to jazz and desire black men.  This fear mongering was even spoken on the floor of the senate.  Look it up and read about it sometime.  Most likely the stigma will not be erased from those with a myopic view and challenged mind.  People will always believe the doctrines they were brainwashed with growing up........."weed bad....beer good....weed bad......whiskey good” Well, I smoked weed, liked it, studied hard in college, graduated from college and make probably 3 times that of many who never smoked weed.  I know doctors, lawyers, nurses, professionals of all types that smoked weed.  Heck Bill Clinton smoked weed and Bush snorted cocaine like a hooker in vegas. 

Legalize the drugs and you will end the market and income for the criminal element that depends upon drug trafficking. 

LEGALIZE IT!

By Make love not war on 09-24-08

Get this.  So most people who indulge in marijuana are pretty peacable, kind people.  I have known many.  They mind their own business, live quiet lives with books, gardens and family.  They also usually oppose wars, police states and big government.

Then there is the evangelical christians.  Anti-weed.  Pro-war, pro-big government, pro-killing any one opposing their government or life style.  The most violent bunch are the ones opposed to weed.  These fundamentalist extremists, these evangelical baptists and those we all know too well, foam at the mouth at those who smoke a joint, and yet they worship the thought of a marine on speed wasting Iraqi civilians with an M249 SAW machine gun.  Wow.  That is some heavy thought.  Their hippocracy, it is nauseating.  Hey baptist preachers, hey evangelical whack jobs..............get a real job.

By JB on 09-24-08

You know, you’d think the government would wise up and legalize marijuana - at least they would have another source of taxation revenue, along with cigarettes and tobacco.

By JD on 09-25-08

I can’t say I’m opposed to the idea of legalizing it, as long as it remains a controlled substance.  I’ve always thought a person should have to be licensed to buy alcohol and to gamble.  If a person can’t seem to handle that, the license is suspended.
I personally never knew any stonies that did real well in life.

By mat on 09-25-08

Its nice to see most of us can agree on something.  I do think that if the government legalized weed, they would make it shitty, and you would have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get it.  Its probably easier to get it now.  I just think its very hypocritical to say your allowed to drink alcohol, which has a huge long nasty record of death and destruction, yet your not allowed to smoke weed, which has not a single recorded fatality attributed to it.  Oh wells.  thejamhole.com

By bigjim on 11-13-08

This is typical of attny’s. It is obvious by reading these comments that you people are the problem in our society.
You people are such a waste.

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