Discussion: GOP Chairman Resigns After Arrest On Suspicion of Marijuana Possession

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600 plants?!

Dude reeeeeally likes the weed.

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Joking aside, I’m sorry he lost his job over this. It’s time we grew the fuck up about marijuana in this country.

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Oh can we please just give it a rest? I’m no fan of the GOP but not one single person needs to be arrested for possession in July of 2014. Not one.

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Well, Jeeeeeeesus! Finally a Republican I might get along with!

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

What do you bet he was publicly against weed?

And what a waste of perfectly good pot!

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IMHO, more GOPers need to spark up.

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Two of the biggest heads I know as adults are die-hard Republicans. Fun to watch them twist up their arguments while they twist up their doobs.

TLQ is right on both counts. 600 plants is really hardcore, and this shouldn’t be an issue.

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Um…somebody also needs to tell him that’s a distribution charge as well…puff, puff, pass!!!

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It shouldn’t be an issue, I agree, but the law today is the law today. The Republicans are the ones most against making the change to legal weed so this is the harm hitting Mr. lawmaker, John Loyd Ellis, right in the chops.

It’s too late for him but he could become an advocate for legal weed and help others.

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“Ellis’ arrest was part of a county “eradication” effort. Cherokee police
officers found and destroyed 600 plants on Friday, the Times reported.”

Report says “600 plants found on Friday” not all of them necessarily on his property. This article needs clarification.

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I’ve kayaked the Arkansas river from east of Great Bend to Hutchinson Kansas, and weed (hemp, I think) grows wild everywhere, you can’t miss seeing it. If the police got a wild hair they could arrest every single farmer and rancher on both sides of 100 miles of river.

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Unless he advocates strict punishment for marijuana users then this should have been a non story.

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Unless they are behind the wheel of a motorized vehicle. I have zero sympathy for anyone nailed on a DUI offense. Zero tolerance.

None.

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as decriminalization/legalization is really taking off as an issue, i’m surprised that farmers in tobacco states haven’t joined in. i’d think this would be a tremendous opportunity for them.

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They might be less rigid if they did.

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This is the heart of why we can’t have rational marijuana laws. LEA LOVE illegal marijuana. They get bonuses from the Feds for drug arrests, and guess which ‘drug’ users are easiest and safest to arrest? LEA gets lots of cool toys from the Feds that they can use to kick people’s doors down…an activity every LEA craves, right address, wrong address…who cares. LEA are the greatest impediment to ending the Drug War and to prison reform. They like things just the way they are, it’s got nothing to do with what’s right or what’s good for the country.

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Or, as this GOP Chairman has shown, they might just be all the more hypocritical in their actions.
It would be interesting to see how many GOPers would move leftward after few tokes. Once you tell them it’s a strain called AK-47, they should be dying to light up!

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Sorry dude.
It is Alabama.
And you knew it.

jw1

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Are the LEOs going to confiscate his home? Does he own a tractor? They get that also. Treat him like a non-caucasian and we’ll get to see someone besides Mr. Boehner cry.