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Posted on August 16, 2009 | tags

 
 

U.S.: If you’ve felt contact buzz in SoCal lately, blame the wildfires

  • The root of the fires? A marijuana camp. Investigators say that a cooking fire at at Mexican drug trafficking compound is to blame for the La Brea fire, which has already charred more than 84,000 acres. So, both their supply and their hideout just went up in smoke. source
 
  • AceKing

    How convenient to blame illegal activies on a huge wildfire. I’f love to know how they “pinpointed” the origin. Was it really growers, or perhaps hikers careless with a cigarette butt? Were the Mexican really growers or just hiding from deportation and/or hoping for jobs. Let’s hear more.

  • Michael

    Well, if they would just legalize marijuana, they wouldn’t have to worry about mexican’s coming here and growing it. Marijuana illegal.….how absurd!!! I wonder how many DEA agents get nice and drunk after work?

  • thinkingman

    If it were legal this type of thing wouldn’t be happening. But lets not use the most crystal clear solution and do the SMART thing (legalizing and taxing) that would solve these problems. Yet more proof of the absolute stupidity of our elected officials. Lets be honest, how many of you out there are happy with the performance of our congress? Republican, Democrat, Independent.…. we are all upset at the mess the feds make of everything. Marijuana IS non-toxic, and one of the safest substances out there. The medical benefits are numerous, and its just an enjoyable and safer way to relax or celebrate. ASPIRIN has caused more deaths than marijuana. Caffeine is more addictive. Fair enough if you simply don’t like pot or have a moral argument with it, but that is no reason to keep it out of the hands of responsible adults who like to partake who have a different morality than you (MANY people in this country cannot stand organized religion and shouldn’t have to bow to their arbitrary morality(kill a man on tv and its no big deal, but show a tit and the nation freaks out)).
    HOWEVER, I’m sure our brilliant populace understands that there is an entire government complex with hundred of billions of dollars invested in the eradication of a PLANT of all things. At this point, the game for them is to ensure job security for their thousands of employees, and to ensure they continue to get as much funding as possible (again I stress BILLION$). Same with local law enforcement. No more money from (theft)ASSET FORFEITURE? No more overly expensive toys to hunt urban gardeners? Officials have been bloated from sucking on the cash cow teat of the marijuana trade at the expense of it own populace. Like children they will only be weaned from the teat kicking and screaming. This is all at the expense of the taxpayer-citizens. That should be common sense to understand. Broken government and a symptom of the bigger problems. This Land of the Free does everything it can to keep a PLANT from growing naturally. Can everyone see the stupidity in that?? –outlawing nature? Pure genius, hahaha!
    Time to stop wasting money on its eradication, tax it, and share in the benefits. As a long time off and on user of marijuana (NOT a pot head), I can tell you this is all just hysteria. Pot is simply NOT that big of a deal, IT JUST ISN’T.……unless the feds have their filthy grubby fingers involved.
    This is why you see a pharmaceutical pill for EVERYTHING advertised on tv. The Big Pharma lobbyists own our congressmen. Same with telecom companies. Same with your credit card companies. How hard is it to see this? Its the same thing with pot. America, when people say we need to “take our country back”, to me this is what it means. No more sell-out congressmen, no more slavery to multi-national corporate greed that creates our public policy. Can we start to all see the bigger picture now? how long will we take it?

  • patmcdonald

    What a load of crap. I heard it was started by a group of California Highway Patrol out on a training exercise. From what I understand they had ended their training for the day and had started to party.
    They started drinking and engaging in wild sex orgies when one officer with a serious flatulence problem chooses to show off his fire farting abilities when he accidently set the tent afire. Because of the drunken state of the orgy participants the fire could not be contained and there you have the truth of how this fire came to be.

  • mike9999

    likewise, it’s over,the feds can’t tell us “it was the bad guys growing pot that did it”, we don’t buy it, how stupid do they think we are? screw them they should of allowed legalization, if it did actually start at a marijuana camp, then it’s the feds fault the fire started,.

  • smoke

    end the war on marijuana

  • smoke

    end the war on marijuana

  • patmcdonald

    What a load of crap. I heard it was started by a group of California Highway Patrol out on a training exercise. From what I understand they had ended their training for the day and had started to party.
    They started drinking and engaging in wild sex orgies when one officer with a serious flatulence problem chooses to show off his fire farting abilities when he accidently set the tent afire. Because of the drunken state of the orgy participants the fire could not be contained and there you have the truth of how this fire came to be.

  • mike9999

    likewise, it’s over,the feds can’t tell us “it was the bad guys growing pot that did it”, we don’t buy it, how stupid do they think we are? screw them they should of allowed legalization, if it did actually start at a marijuana camp, then it’s the feds fault the fire started,.

  • smoke

    end the war on marijuana

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