tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post114000819710873997..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Accidental truthGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1140189883064711602006-02-17T09:24:00.000-06:002006-02-17T09:24:00.000-06:00Grits,Be very leery of the stats in any state rega...Grits,<BR/><BR/>Be very leery of the stats in any state regarding the destruction of what they call cultivated marijuana. <BR/><BR/>I superivsed this program and here's what really happened. <BR/><BR/>DEA had a marijuane eradication program whereby piles of federal money went to areas where the states could DEMONSTRATE marijuana was being cultivated. <BR/><BR/>That money was based on NUMBERS of destroyed CULTIVATED plants. Think about that for a moment so you can develop a mindset how to make ALL plants cultivated so the funds can be triggered. <BR/><BR/>Marijuana plants grow wild and it's called "ditch weed" ordinatrily but it's not called that when 15 state troopers in Illinois get in an expensive helicopter on overtime and destroy it along the Illinois river. Then it's called a "cultivated plant" because those creative minds will find evidence of cultivation; maybe an empty soda can; a plastic bottle; or something that was trash but creatively identified as a means to water the plant.<BR/><BR/>I watched as the Illinois State Police were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to destroy ditch weed that was a complete fraud. The stats are not verifiable when you look at them closely and this is one more example of federal funding controlled at the state and local level with no oversight, controls, or verification. <BR/><BR/>Somebody needs to look at these fraudulent programs now so that the supervisors who ignore and thereby promote them are fired; thereby understanding something that doesn't work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1140154606613573812006-02-16T23:36:00.000-06:002006-02-16T23:36:00.000-06:00This one's pretty good, too, for some accidental t...This one's pretty good, too, for some accidental truth that slipped out of Washington State. <BR/><BR/>"And like any agricultural product, marijuana is very much a commodity, Lieut. Rich Wiley, who heads the Washington State Patrol narcotics program, said Wednesday."<BR/><BR/>"We're struck by the amount of work they put into it," Wiley said. "It's very labour intensive. They often run individual drip lines to each plant, and are out there fertilizing them. It takes a tremendous amount of work." <BR/><BR/>(Thanks to Allan over at Pete's place.)<BR/><BR/>I thought those "potheads" were very "amovitated" or something like that?<BR/><BR/>Where is all that motivation coming from? <BR/><BR/>Does prohibition as we know it today have anything to do with it? <BR/><BR/>Has artificially driven, sky high profits got anything to do with it?<BR/><BR/>There have been many reasons so many have pursued those profits. <BR/><BR/>I think it's mostly, of course, about money...supply and demand...and risk, adventure, and adrenaline. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes it's pure greed and sometimes it can be the desperate need to work and the need to profit for many unexplored reasons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com