Nathan Perret (Jacksonville, FL RLS) busted for cultivation with intent to distribute over 160 Marijuana plants, also found with a stash of guns which will enhance the sentence if he is convicted. Dumb ash was growing all around his house and setting up an indoor grow operation, and had a significant amount bagged and ready for sale. I hope this doesn't have too bad of an effect on those who depend on his business for their living.
It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try.
I don't know this guys situation but you put a man's back against the wall and he will do some crazy stuff to try to survive.
By the way, a free man ought to be able to grow any kind of plant he wants without the fear of another man imprisoning him for it.
I love this song.
Thank you, Merle
It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas.
Beneath the neon, close up's just begun.
When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol.
He can't find a job, but man, he's found a gun.
But a change of heart before there's confrontation.
Let's the old man live and run out in the street.
But he knows that soon they'll come with guns a blazing.
And already he can feel a great relief.
Oh how many travlers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.
He pictures the arrival of the cruisers.
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes.
He knows that when they're shooting at this loser,
They'll be aiming at the deamons in their lives.
Oh how many travlers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.
The evening news it carries all the details.
He dies in every living room in town.
And in his home a bottle's thrown in anger.
And his father cries, "We'll never live this down."
Oh how many travlers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.
Don
Oh-Oh, and fly like eagles out among the stars.
I don't care about marijuana and if people smoke it. I think it is the least of our concerns and that if they want to legalize it, fine. Develop some program like the Dutch. Now the other hardcore crazy drugs is a different matter and should remain illegal.
I am very sorry to hear that.
Why is that? I am not a smoker of ANYTHING. I hate smoke. Never have tried it, never will, of any kind. But why continue to charge people over possessing weed?
About 25 years ago, one of my kin got involved in a marijuana ring with the local sheriff. Somehow the sheriff got caught and went to jail, and my cousin got off. It's hard to blame him, he was trying to keep his farm out of bankruptcy. You've gotta do what you've gotta do.
Ya think the hundreds of billions spent on busting and jailing hippies might have been used in better ways?? Ya think at all??
If they were to ever legalize the stuff, I might just start again after 30 years of not.
Darrell,
My comment was not directed at you; I am very sorry to hear that Nathan Perret went down the road he did.
Some countries just aren't that bright
The perpetuation of moronic laws, makes criminals out of otherwise decent citizens.
