OR: Record Marijuana Seizures Mean There's More Pot, Not Less

**Lit_Match** · 10-03-2007, 07:30 AM

Record Marijuana Seizures Mean There's More Pot, Not Less
10-02-07|Drug War Chronicle

The Drug Czar's blog once again demonstrates a remarkable misunderstanding of how drug enforcement works. Or they're just pretending not to understand:

Quote:

Pot Seizures Way Up in Oregon

More bad news for Mexican drug cartels:

"Harvest season this year has law enforcement scrambling to deal with the largest crop of marijuana in Oregon history.

From counties long known for illegal foliage to those where marijuana is rare, narcotics agents say they are tracking and hacking an unprecedented number of plants in remote and rugged rural areas.

By mid-September, they had seized about 220,000 plants statewide, nearly a 100 percent jump from last year's haul of about 120,000 plants. Almost all of the crops, DEA officials say, are grown by Mexican drug cartels expanding their California operations." [Oregonian]

Government anti-drug officials, of all people, should understand that high seizures mean there's just lots of marijuana to be found. The article even says it's "the largest crop of marijuana in Oregon history." This isn't bad news for Mexican drug cartels, it's bad news for the 20-year-old federally-funded marijuana eradication effort that hasn't accomplished anything. The problem is just getting worse.

What could be more dishonest than pretending that a record crop is good news for marijuana eradication? That is just like saying that record forest fires are good news because we're putting out more fires than ever before.

As usual, the DEA eagerly claims that "almost all of the crops" are grown by Mexican drug cartels, as though white people in Oregon want nothing to do with marijuana cultivation. Um, have you seen those people? Seriously, I've met lots of white people from Oregon, and I swear half of them were just waiting for me to stop talking so they could go water their pot plants in the woods.

And, as I've explained previously, no one ever gets caught planting pot in the woods anyway, so how could police possibly know who's doing it? They have no clue, and it's precisely because no one ever gets caught growing pot in the woods that more and more people are planting more and more pot in the woods. How long must all of this go on before the Drug Czar's office stops citing it as evidence of the effectiveness of marijuana eradication?

chadwick · 10-03-2007, 07:06 PM

your right about Oregonians they all grow pot wether its in there backyard or in the woods they are wonderful people i'd move back but i cant stand the weather

Buzzby · 10-03-2007, 07:29 PM

Whatever the drug warriors seize, it's only a percentage of the crop. Most estimates are around 10%. If they seize twice as much this year as last year, all that means is that there is twice as much on the market.

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Buzzby Buddhist Curmudgeon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16,797 Grams: 91,129.02 Thanks: 995 Thanked 6,789 Times in 3,136 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Whatever the drug warriors seize, it's only a percentage of the crop. Most estimates are around 10%. If they seize twice as much this year as last year, all that means is that there is twice as much on the market. __________________ 60% of the people of America now say we are heading toward a depression. Not a recession, a depression. We are in desperate need of profitable industries that we can tax. Um... Now can we legalize pot? ~ Bill Maher Theocracy Watch

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