Is Guither's "DrugWarRant" Site A Fraud?

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Jim wrote:

Would they have been as ardent when alcohol was un-prohibited? Relax, everyone

This is a story I tell where ever I go, because it's such a good analogy. Kinda funny, too.

My family was elderly when they had me, my parents were the same age as most people's grandparents. They had first hand stories of the Prohibition, told me some of them. One was from my dad whose parents were poor during the Depression. Living in a squalid neighborhood during Prohibition, he saw the fed Revenuers (that's what they were called, right?) rush into a house with little hatchets. They came out with a bunch of small, wooden kegs that had bootleg hooch in them. What they did back then was immediately take the kegs to the sidewalk and the gutter and bust them open with the hatchets, letting the hooch run down the gutter to the drains.

End of that story? Nope, as the neighbors came running out of their houses with tin cups and scooped as much of the hooch up as they could before it was all gone. I guess the feds let them do that, my dad didn't say anything about anyone getting arrested.

But isn't that a great story, when put in today's perspective? So, does the DEA bust a crop and throw all the plants in the gutter in Ukiah? Is that what's going on up there?

Better hope Guither's people don't find out about it.

[Vlad]

If you're trying to insinuate that bootleg alcohol isn't on par with our currently illegal drugs, you're gravely mistaken. Bootleg alcohol had the tendency to cause paralysis, blindness, jake foot, and instant death. Even when tightly regulated, alcohol kills more people than all illicit drugs combined (and it's not like our laws have done anything about the number of people using them.) It's just been more of a social staple in this country.

[A Mendo voice]

You Yes on BS people are liars and thieves. You spread your lies all the time and believe everything you hear. If things were even close to as bad as you "make up" we would have lots of murders and rapes and Mexican mafia running Mendocino. This is simply not the case. We do have a bunch of people trying to tell everyone what to do though because they don't like the smell. If you think smoking pot or even growing a few plants in this county is a criminal offense that we need to waste our counties money on then you need to move to somewhere "safe" such as Utah or better yet China.
P.S.-To all the B supporters taking down the NO ON B signs you are a bunch of hypocrites and thieves who belong in jail!

NO ON B!!! It takes away personal use and does nothing to get rid of the "BIG GROWS".

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Vlad wrote:

Bootleg alcohol had the tendency to cause paralysis, blindness, jake foot, and instant death.

No! No argument there! Matter of fact my dad told me he thought he was sterile because of drinking bad bootleg. They made some real rotgut back in those days.

I just think it's a good story with a little relevance to what we're living in now. So many of those stories are lost now, I'm thankful I have a few of them given to me.

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Well, all I know is that I don't like those two sites.

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What does Pete Guither have to do with DPA and Prop. 36? DPA is a large organization. Pete Guither is a college professor who writes a drug policy blog in his spare time. I'm not making the connection.

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I don't know, but I don't like Prop 36.

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I believe that Guither uses censorship on his site, and that censorship harms more than just the legalization movement. I must agree with you.

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I don't think Prop 36 is a good law as it is. I think it should be retro.

I don't like the way it was passed. It's racist and discriminatory. It does nothing for those who went before it. Pre Prop 36 people? You see them in Bum Fights. Does Prop 36 help them escape unlicensed rehabs?

Watch Bum Fights and tell me.