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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: 15868
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.
#32. To: Gatlin (#9)
It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.
Should we ban for all adults everything that might push a mentally unstable person over the edge?
#39. To: ConservingFreedom (#32)
It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.Should we ban for all adults everything that might push a mentally unstable person over the edge?
Of course not, you silly boy. A "woman can use 8 sex moves to drive a man permanently insane” (modesty prevents me from posting the link) … and if you GOTTA go, there probably is no better way to go. Ya Think???
#48. To: Gatlin (#39)
[G:] It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.[CF:] Should we ban for all adults everything that might push a mentally unstable person over the edge?
[G:] Of course not
Then why the double standard for stanky bud?
#60. To: ConservingFreedom (#48) (Edited)
[G:] It was the stanky bud that pushed him over the edge.
[CF:] Should we ban for all adults everything that might push a mentally unstable person over the edge?
[G:] Of course not
[CF] Then why the double standard for stanky bud?
Read your question again.
You asked: “Everything.”
I answered: “Of course not.”
… not EVERYTHING.
It was a poorly worded question … and probably q poorly worded answer. I believe that you are asking my position on MJ. Assuming that you are, I will try to answer as briefly and directly as I possibly can.
I really don’t know how I would vote on legalization of marijuana. However, I could decide when the time came. I believe that legalization is a “states right” issue … I am a big “states righter.” And I readily accept the action by the voters in any state that makes the choice to permit the use of marijuana. That is not noble of me, that is facing reality and fully respecting democracy in our republic.
I have not (that I can remember … and if I did, I would need to make a clarification) ever said that MJ should be banned. You somehow picked that up in my posts and I would surmise that you probably read that into my statements.
The simple fact is that I have grown tired of the nonstop Marijuana propaganda that is being shoved down our throats on a daily basis. Consequently, I have developed the attitude and approach against the overbearing pothead advocates the same way I turned against the Paultards, when I originally supported many of his ideas and may have voted for him. (This position is not unique to me … I have read it often times).
I could keep on, but I will not in the sense of brevity. I trust you understand my position and I thank you for your respectful exchange. I will be pleased to answer any direct question. I am kinda like Trump (and I feel he is not a bad person to be kinda like) … in that I only lash out against those who lash out at me first. They seem to never want to know my position, they obviously only want to express great animosity against me for expressing my personal opinion and always initiate the name calling and insults.
I don’t recall anyone of these posters who want to override, overshadow and suppress my opinion … ever asking me to clarify my position so they could understand where I am coming from. You have done that. You are the first … and I thank you for this and your courtesy.
We are new to exchanging posts. There is some information I would like to share with you. I am a speed reader and key as quickly as I read. I have many things to do, including being a volume day trader in the market. I have a number of computer screens open and I post on LF between buy and sell orders. I never take time to proof read … I have other things waiting for me to do. I offer this information to you not as an excuse … just to help clarify my posting techniques.
FYI; If legalizing alcohol were the point topic instead of marijuana and the alcohol advocates were as overbearing, I would make the same posts about alcohol as I do marijuana.
With respect,
Gatlin
#69. To: Gatlin, ConservingFreedom, hondo68, Fred Mertz (#60) (Edited)
the same way I turned against the Paultards, when I originally supported many of his ideas and may have voted for him.
More revisionist history Gatlin, trying to ingratiate yourself with the "new guy"?
CF is not familiar with your anti-Paul stance going back to at least 2007 on the old Liberty Post.
It wasn't the "Paultards" you detested - it was the ideas and philosophy of Ron Paul. Why? Because freedom scares you.
I'm sure I could dredge up a slew of your obnoxious comments and the baseless claims of racism and anti-Semitism you maliciously slung at Dr. Paul.
#74. To: Deckard, GrandIsland the original paultard (#69)
Paultards, when I originally supported many of his ideas and may have voted for him.
GrandIsland was a "Paultard" for a few days around '07. At least he pretended to be a Ron Paul supporter. It's likely that the term paultard, was invented to describe GrandIsland.
Gatlin has always been a statist Trotskyite of the Karl Rove, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, McCain type... Global Socialism with an Iron Glove (Neocon).
Trotskyism
Leon Trotsky
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