Chris Christie: I Will Crack Down And Not Permit Legal Marijuana as President

[muh_roads]

And another exposes their ownership of Big Pharma knee-pads. Suck away, Christie.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

If we de-criminalized Drugs, how would we survive ?

That would destroy asset forfeiture, police home invasions, militarization of police, virtually empty the Prisons-for-profit prgram , kick backs to judges....

Scary s###.....


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Don't forget Big Oxy and the funeral industry.

 

[DFF]

Good to know Christy wants to protect the citizenry by putting them in jail.

 

[dannno]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s.. I know there were some pretty big attitude shifts, gas prices were out of control, people worried about the economy and turned to Republicans for solutions, the country was definitely turning more conservative, etc.. but I have a hard time believing there wasn't some type of emotionally driven campaign or event that triggered it, sort of like a marijuana 9/11 or something. Maybe a combination of a few big events. Unfortunately I wasn't around.

Was it Charles Manson?

I mean, toking herb got REALLY popular again back in the late 90s, early 00s and is currently enjoying a huge resurgence over 15 years later, yet the last resurgence began in the late, late 60s or around 1970 and lasted less than 10 years before almost total demolition.. wtf??

 

[rg17]

That fat warcow will never win.

 

[Stratovarious]

Don't forget Big Oxy and the funeral industry.

What is big oxy, and I don't actually know about the funeral industry, we talking double stacking or ....?


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[presence]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s..

Minimum Mandatory, No-Knock, CIA Crack, DARE Propaganda Campaign & Prison For Profit

Nixon and the Generation Gap

In the 1960s, as drugs became symbols of youthful rebellion, social upheaval, and political dissent, the government halted scientific research to evaluate their medical safety and efficacy.

In June 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. Nixon temporarily placed marijuana in Schedule One, the most restrictive category of drugs, pending review by a commission he appointed led by Republican Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer. In 1972, the commission unanimously recommended decriminalizing the possession and distribution of marijuana for personal use. Nixon ignored the report and rejected its recommendations.

Between 1973 and 1977, however, eleven states decriminalized marijuana possession. In January 1977, President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated on a campaign platform that included marijuana decriminalization. In October 1977, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use.

Within just a few years, though, the tide had shifted. Proposals to decriminalize marijuana were abandoned as parents became increasingly concerned about high rates of teen marijuana use. Marijuana was ultimately caught up in a broader cultural backlash against the perceived permissiveness of the 1970s.

The 1980s and 90s: Drug Hysteria and Skyrocketing Incarceration Rates

The presidency of Ronald Reagan marked the start of a long period of skyrocketing rates of incarceration, largely thanks to his unprecedented expansion of the drug war. The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997.

Public concern about illicit drug use built throughout the 1980s, largely due to media portrayals of people addicted to the smokeable form of cocaine dubbed “crack.” Soon after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his wife, Nancy Reagan, began a highly-publicized anti-drug campaign, coining the slogan "Just Say No." This set the stage for the zero tolerance policies implemented in the mid-to-late 1980s. Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, who believed that “casual drug users should be taken out and shot,” founded the DARE drug education program, which was quickly adopted nationwide despite the lack of evidence of its effectiveness. The increasingly harsh drug policies also blocked the expansion of syringe access programs and other harm reduction policies to reduce the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS.

In the late 1980s, a political hysteria about drugs led to the passage of draconian penalties in Congress and state legislatures that rapidly increased the prison population. In 1985, the proportion of Americans polled who saw drug abuse as the nation's "number one problem" was just 2-6 percent. The figure grew through the remainder of the 1980s until, in September 1989, it reached a remarkable 64 percent – one of the most intense fixations by the American public on any issue in polling history. Within less than a year, however, the figure plummeted to less than 10 percent, as the media lost interest. The draconian policies enacted during the hysteria remained, however, and continued to result in escalating levels of arrests and incarceration.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s.. I know there were some pretty big attitude shifts, gas prices were out of control, people worried about the economy and turned to Republicans for solutions, the country was definitely turning more conservative, etc.. but I have a hard time believing there wasn't some type of emotionally driven campaign or event that triggered it, sort of like a marijuana 9/11 or something. Maybe a combination of a few big events. Unfortunately I wasn't around.

Was it Charles Manson?

I mean, toking herb got REALLY popular again back in the late 90s, early 00s and is currently enjoying a huge resurgence over 15 years later, yet the last resurgence began in the late, late 60s or around 1970 and lasted less than 10 years before almost total demolition.. wtf??

I graduated High School in 1992. I have no idea how to account for that massive dip except to just kind of shrug and point to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's "just say no" campaign.

In the 80's I remember this huge crackdown on drugs. I didn't even know wtf a 'drug' was, really, except in the bookish sense. I specifically remember wondering how in the world this was supposed to be "America" if we can pass laws about what people can and can not eat.

I don't remember any sort of galvanizing event, but I do remember the push to demonize drugs, and I had always just associated that with the "Just Say No" campaign and the two Reagans behind it.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

What is big oxy, and I don't actually know about the funeral industry, we talking double stacking or ....?


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Oxycontin. Pharmaceutical pain management. I was actually referring to how more people die of accidental overdose on legally prescribed advanced pain management than the sum collection of all illegal drug deaths combined.

 

[William Tell]

Clearly Christie is desperate for support from some quarter of the GOP. He realizes he will never win over the growing number of liberty lovers. So he's going all out tyrant hoping to get special interest support. Good luck, Bacon King!

 

[HVACTech]

should be a nice sativa variety out there named 'Chris Krispy' ....somewhere...

i'm looking.....


brb

grab some Cheetos while you are out.

 

[Spikender]

What a simp and a lame.

Get some liberty in your game.

 

[Stratovarious]

Oxycontin. Pharmaceutical pain management. I was actually referring to how more people die of accidental overdose on legally prescribed advanced pain management than the sum collection of all illegal drug deaths combined.

I didn't recognize the drug , but yea hear ya, this is another one of our revolving congressional doors. The King Size CongressionalPharma Bed.
Gwen Olsen really impressed me a few years ago with her exposure of Pharma.


The Vaccine Religion is also part of this blanket of tyranny imo.


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[Thor]

If something like this were enacted, it would be interesting to see if the states who have been profiting would revolt. Break up the union over it, or kiss ass and enforce it...

 

[The Northbreather]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s.. I know there were some pretty big attitude shifts, gas prices were out of control, people worried about the economy and turned to Republicans for solutions, the country was definitely turning more conservative, etc.. but I have a hard time believing there wasn't some type of emotionally driven campaign or event that triggered it, sort of like a marijuana 9/11 or something. Maybe a combination of a few big events. Unfortunately I wasn't around.

Was it Charles Manson?

I mean, toking herb got REALLY popular again back in the late 90s, early 00s and is currently enjoying a huge resurgence over 15 years later, yet the last resurgence began in the late, late 60s or around 1970 and lasted less than 10 years before almost total demolition.. wtf??

Cocaine?

 

[specsaregood]

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[Brian4Liberty]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s.

Cocaine?

LOL. You beat me to it. Pot went out of style. Coke was in. Also, too many people had bad reactions to pot and became anti-pot. There's a reason people like Michael Savage rail against marijuana. He had a bad trip, and now is totally against it.

 

[invisible]

I'm still trying to figure out what caused that MASSIVE dip at the very end of the 70s and into the early 80s.. I know there were some pretty big attitude shifts, gas prices were out of control, people worried about the economy and turned to Republicans for solutions, the country was definitely turning more conservative, etc.. but I have a hard time believing there wasn't some type of emotionally driven campaign or event that triggered it, sort of like a marijuana 9/11 or something. Maybe a combination of a few big events. Unfortunately I wasn't around.

Was it Charles Manson?

I mean, toking herb got REALLY popular again back in the late 90s, early 00s and is currently enjoying a huge resurgence over 15 years later, yet the last resurgence began in the late, late 60s or around 1970 and lasted less than 10 years before almost total demolition.. wtf??

soldiers returning from 'Nam
Up In Smoke
popular music of the time
Carter coming out in favor of decriminalization
relaxed cultural attitudes during the 70's
increased availability

All were probably contributing factors.

 

[HVACTech]

If the shit was legal we wouldn't have this stupid meth problem around the states.

Agreed. +Rep.

in the late 70's Meth was known as crystal T or crank.. a trash drug.
it was right up there with PCP or sniffing airplane glue.
Not cool.

 

[Dianne]

I seriously hate that tub of lard. Why can't he spare us and run for the Democratic nomination against Hillary, where he belongs.