Comments on: Santa Rosa Tops In Outdoor Marijuana Eradication

By: eab

eab — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:23:38 +0000

This is ridiculous. I’m not in favor of drug or alcohol use, but how long have they been on this merry-go-round of finding, destroying, people replanting, finding, etc? We are wasting a lot of money on chasing that weed down when there are a lot greater issues facing us.

One poster correctly noted that folks are just going to buy pot from the Mexican cartels, who are starting to bring their murdering and torture over to this side of the border in earnest. The cartels are even starting to grow marijuana on our national parks and forests. They have people actually living on site and tending the plants. The DEA and other law enforcement folks are starting to be afraid to go in looking for the stuff for fear of being outgunned.

We are wasting time and money on this issue. Let people grow it, smoke it, eat it, whatever they want to do. If you don’t want your children not to do it, then teach them not to while they are young and then let them make up their own minds when they are older.

If we have to make something illegal, let’s try alcohol again. It’s a lot more dangerous than reefer.

By: mayjem

mayjem — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:10:34 +0000

I’d like to say it is great that they are cracking down and making a lot of busts. I hope the numbers indicate that they are catching a very large percentage of the total plants and offenders that are out there, rather than that Santa Rosa County just has a lot more total plants/offenders than other counties do. I wonder, does SR county use a helicopter at all to make these busts and am I correct in saying Escambia County used to use their helicopter for the same use (which is now grounded, correct?) Just curious.

By: robert

robert — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:30 +0000

the money spent on weed don’t help either county it is not taxed so it is really useless to them law enforcement getting rid of it means the counties will eventually see something in return

By: huh

huh — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:32:55 +0000

RE: Art

Ever think that maybe the sex laws are extreme ? Peeing in the bushes, or consensual sex with someone 1 year under the limit can you get labeled for life

The problem is different classifications need to be made for real child raping offenders vs everyone else

By adding more and more people for small things to the list (including teens for “sexting” ) they further dilute the sex offender list, and people no longer take it seriously because every tom. dick and harry is on it

By: art

art — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:34:29 +0000

big deal…did you know santa rosa and escambia counties have the largest population of sex offenders in the state? now that is a headline that would impress me….”santa rosa tops in eradicating sex offenders”. so now instead of pot heads getting homegrown marijuana, they buy stuff from the crazed and violent drug cartels. and that means by by to the monies that would have stayed in escambia and santa rosa counties.