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Title: Thousands Arrested in Michigan for Pot While the Governor Remains Free for Poisoning Entire City
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Counter Current News/MLive
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/ ... ns-free-poisoning-entire-city/
Published: Apr 27, 2016
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2016-04-28 07:14:11 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 15870
Comments: 77
Michigan residents can rest assured because, despite the massive lead contamination of Flint’s entire public water supply, the State has its priorities on point as the government continues doggedly pursuing criminals of the highest order.
No, not Governor Rick Snyder, of course — nor anyone else potentially responsible for poisoning an entire city’s population with lead — We’re talking about those awful medical cannabis users and pesky recreational pot smokers.
In fact, while well over half of Michigan residents support ending cannabis prohibition, before public education campaigns about potential tax benefits have even kicked off, including 74% of those under 30 years of age and a surprising 51% of those over 60, according to the Detroit News. But arrests for its possession and use are skyrocketing — up 17% between 2008 and 2014, according to state police data, reported MLive.
Even more astonishingly, this increase in pot arrests occurred at the same time total arrests for all crime fell 15%. Two-thirds of all drug arrests were related to weed in 2014 — of which 86%, or 20,483, were for use or simple possession of the plant.
Such targeting of medical and recreational users by police — Michigan law strictly regulates weed for those with “debilitating medical conditions,” only — has led to a number of outrageous cases in recent times.
A state appeals court recently upheld the conviction of 47-year-old medical cannabis caregiver, Alenna Marie Rocafort, in a stunning case about legal technicalities gone horribly awry.
Police raided the caregiver’s home in September 2012, seizing 5.6 pounds of the plant she was using to treat seriously ill patients.
The courts found this amount far exceeded the 2.5 ounces of “usable” marijuana per patient that caregivers are allotted by law to grow.
However, Rocafort’s 5.6 pounds of plant had only been harvested four days prior to its seizure by police, which experts claim is far short of the 10 days it takes harvested pot to properly dry and become viable for use.
Defense attorneys thus justifiably argued the caregiver’s weed wasn’t “usable,” so, not illegal — but the case has been lumbering on, wasting taxpayer money to quibble over a definition about a plant which most people don’t view as an illicit substance in the first place.
According to MLive, 21 cities in Michigan have brought legalization or decriminalization measures to a vote; and 15 of those cities — including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing — have approved various decriminalization initiatives.
In September, state Rep. Jeff Irwin introduced a bill — now backed by six additional representatives — to end cannabis prohibition (HB 4877), which would treat the plant as regulatory, akin to alcohol. Additional legalization measures may wind up on the November ballot if two groups are able to gather enough signatures in time, which now seems highly likely.
In short, it seems almost the only people in the State of Michigan who want the prosecution, criminalization, and general prohibition of cannabis to continue are the police and the criminal justice system — the same police and system which have yet to bring charges against anyone for poisoning an entire city.
As The Free Thought Project reported in December, Governor Rick Snyder has knowingly allowed children, the elderly and other vulnerable people to face potential lifelong effects of being poisoned by lead in his refusal to investigate contamination claims by Flint residents months ago.
They will suffer for the rest of their lives due to his criminal neglect — but, at least, the State is keeping them safe from the numerous benefits of cannabis and the dangerous caregivers who ensure their patients aren’t suffering.
It’s time to end the War on Drugs and start to pursue the criminals who deserve to be behind bars — and Michigan would do well to consider Gov. Snyder as a target. (1 image)
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Thousands Arrested in Michigan for Pot ...
"Book 'em, Danno!"
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - A 47-year-old man charged with murder in a 1988 southwestern Michigan slaying could be freed in about five years following a plea deal.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports attorneys worked out an agreement that allowed Junior Fred Blackston of Bangor to plead guilty last week to second-degree murder. He had appealed two earlier convictions and already was behind bars more than 15 years.
Sentencing is July 11. Blackston's attorney and prosecutors announced the deal Tuesday that avoids a third trial. Authorities say Blackston was among three men who lured 22-year-old Charles Paul Miller of Bangor into a marijuana field in Allegan County's Lee Township, shot him in the back of the head because of a drug debt and buried his body. Arrests first were made in the case in 2000.
#6. To: Gatlin (#4)
Yet the deliberate poisoning of Flint citizens resulting in several deaths is "no big deal"?
What a Republican suck-up!
#7. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#6)
"Book 'em, Danno!"
PARMA, MI -- A morbid murder involving a Jackson man, who bludgeoned, dismembered and cooked his wife in the taco and pizza joint they owned, was cited by a judge Thursday in his warning to teens about the dangers of marijuana.Kevin Arntz cooked his wife because he was hallucinating over marijuana, thought she was the she-devil, at least that's what he told people.
So much for the argument that marijuana doesn't hurt anybody.
#8. To: Gatlin (#7)
Kevin Arntz cooked his wife because he was hallucinating over marijuana
A Florida District Judge named Joseph Filip is leading the charge on this. In a court-to-school event at Western High School in Parma, FL, he regaled 200 high school students with the grisly story of how Arntz bludgeoned, dismembered and cooked his wife in the taco/pizza restaurant they owned.
And why would Arntz commit such a heinous crime? According to Filip, it was weed. Definitely weed. Not the fist-sized brain tumor he'd had, or his history of mental illness. Just some stanky bud.
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
Just some stanky bud.
Compound problem.
It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.
Nice try at a cover up ... abject failure though.
#13. To: Gatlin (#9)
It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.
Please post your credentials, where you went to medical school, and any other criteria that would show your expertise in this area.
#20. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#13) (Edited)
Please post your credentials, where you went to medical school, and any other criteria that would show your expertise in this area.
School of Common Sense and Good Judgment. Florida Institute of Comprehensive Analysis, Class of 1970 - Graduated top in the class.
Six years apprenticeship at the Liberty Post Forum specializing in the study of Paultard kooks, lying self-proclaimed Constitution experts and drunken idiots from Riverside, California.
Observing your diabolical agenda driven methods as you selectively channel screened info while unsuccessfully trying to plant seeds of hate these past years.
That should take care of it ...
#21. To: Gatlin (#20)
School of Common Sense and Good Judgment
In other words, you don't know jack-shit.
BTW, you exhibit all the symptoms of Megalomania ...a psychopathological condition characterized by fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Historically it was used as a name for narcissistic personality disorder prior to the latter's first use by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and is used today as a non-clinical equivalent.
As well as a symptom of pathology, a degree of megalomania is a way of defending against loss in everyday life—a manic defense against the experience of separation and loss.
When linked to a position of power, whether military, political, or control-freak bureaucratical.
*****
Yeah - that pretty much sums up your personality.
#24. To: Deckard (#21)
In other words, you don't know jack-shit.
Of course I know jack-shit ... I have seen enough of the material you have produced over the years to immediately recognize it.
...fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem.
No fantasies here ... reality shows that they are all there. Except the inflated self-esteem ... it is not inflated, it is at its maximum level at all times.
#26. To: Gatlin (#24)
No fantasies here ... reality shows that they are all there. Except the inflated self-esteem ... it is not inflated, it is at its maximum level at all times.
Is it any wonder the sane people here can see what an obnoxious and delusional little weasel you are?
#47. To: Deckard (#26)
Is it any wonder the sane people here can see what an obnoxious and delusional little weasel you are?
Some people see “what they WANT to see.” You are a classic representation of one who does that.
Someone once said:
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
I am in the five percent class … while you are at the bottom of the eighty-five percent group.
You must find time to improve your intellect, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance forever.
Wait … you have already chosen the latter, right?
#51. To: Gatlin (#47)
Five percent of the people think...I am in the five percent class
Uh - no, you really don't.
You don't think for yourself, you don't question the status quo, you refuse to consider thoughts and ideas that are not fed directly to you by the MSM and fed.gov.
I could go on, but why bother?
Your narcissism is only eclipsed by your delusions of adequacy.
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Your narcissism ,,,
Not narcissism ... It’s self-confidence, sport!
#56. To: Deckard (#51) (Edited)
5. Speech or Nonverbal Delays
A very big warning sign for parents early on in the stages of autism is that their children are very behind for their age in speaking, or they don’t speak at all. Most little ones have a pretty vast vocabulary by the age of three years old, and just by visiting your pediatrician regularly parents have a good idea where their kids sit with this piece of development.
6. Hyperactive or Passive
A lot of guys and girls with autism have difficulties with their activity level. Many find it hard to sit still, they fidget repetitively, or have body movements such as rocking or flapping their hands. Often, these movements are just a function that makes them feel calm in any situation and do no harm to them. Some are super hyperactive, and others are completely passive and can hang out quietly all day long. Again, no two kids are the same, nor should they be, but speak with your doctor if their hyperactivity is too much as medication can greatly help.
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