Drugs Inc: Marijuana http://channel.
"Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug on the planet. To many, it’s an evil weed, but to some, it’s a sacred herb, even a lifesaver. For decades the global supply was controlled by criminals, but now a quasi-legal industry worth billions of dollars is booming. Visit growers in Holland and Jamaica who are leading a horticultural revolution in high-grade cannabis, hear from users consuming for medicinal purposes, go inside the “Green Rush” of medical marijuana in cities across the U.S. and see how violent cartels in Mexico use marijuana to finance criminal enterprises."
Clippers harvest buds for the United Cannabis Ministry. They get paid in cannabis for their work. (© Wall to Wall Media)
National Geographic has a new show called Drugs Inc. It has a fascinatingly close up look on marijuana culture, science and history. Though, it is strange to lump only heroin, cocain, meth, and marijuana together. They should include looks at pharmaceuticals, designer drugs, psychedelics, and even coffee and alcohol.
Video “Medical Mary Jane” – Medical marijuana use is thriving in California, where patients use it for everything from fibromyalgia to AIDS.
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If you watch this whole episode, you'll see a part where a heavily armed Tennessee drug task force busts into a townhouse where they find the "marijuana dealers' accounting papers," which they confiscate and claim IN DEAD SERIOUSNESS tracks the dealers' cash in hand verses what people are owing him!!!
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you pause the show and look at the paper, IT IS A SPADES GAME SCORE SHEET between teams "Cash" and "money"!
Dead serious-
ReplyDeleteAfter the first game, the score is 90-40 in favor of team Money. In game two, team Cash "went board" (which means they bet 4 books - the minimum allowed in the game of Spades) and did not get their 4 so their score went to 0; team Money said they could get 7 books, but must have gotten 10 or more in order to have set team Cash, bringing the score after two games to 160-0.
Game 3 both teams bet 6 books and both got them [there are 13 books possible (or 130 points) for each game], making the score 220-60 in favor of team Money. Game 4 team Money bet 6 books again and team Cash bet 7; both teams covered and the score became 280-130. Since they were apparently going to 300, team Money only bet 4 books (or "board") in Game 5 and got them - winning the first Spades game shown on the "marijuana dealers' accounting papers" 320 to (I can't make out what team Cash bid or finished at, but they lost).
Dead serious about this. If these "dealers" are still in jail, this case NEEDS to be revisited. I knew something was suspicious when the SWATlike team busted in the door of the townhouse fully armed, and people were chilling on a couch with a videogame paused. Dealers typically don't have company over all the time playing cards and videogames; they prefer a little more "low key" atmosphere.
Btw am I the only person in America who plays Spades or how has nobody caught this after 2 YEARS on air???
My heart goes out to those guys, and everybody else nondangerous who has been wrongfully convicted and is serving time on our tax dollars for doing a drug that is literally impossible to O.D. on and which our country is spending (according to this documentary) TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR to stop the growing and distribution of!
Lastly let me point out that the US debt as of June this year is at $15,724,907,364,995. That's almost $16 trillion! IF marijuana was legal (and if alcohol is legal, marijuana DEFINITELY should be as well), we could probably literally wipe the deficit clean after a few years due to:
ReplyDelete1.) not spending so many taxpayer dollars on maintaining marijuana users/dealers in jail (an American is arrested for violating cannabis laws every 30 seconds);
2.) taxing the sale of marijuana sold in the US BY THE US, once it's legal (since, as is, the majority of money spent on marijuana by US citizens ultimately goes back to the foreign drug cartels who currently supply us under the table);
3.) income from tourists who flock to our country from their own just to be able to openly try an overrated "drug" that is disallowed in their own country;
and 4.) saving insane amounts of money on the court costs to convict marijuana users/dealers.
Not to point out the obvious, but those Mexican cartels and others who kidnap people and force them to harvest their illegal crop so they can sell them for $50-60 an eighth WOULD NOT EXIST ANYMORE because people would be able to go into a clean American business and buy a much better product for a fraction of the price!
Think about it: Random unknown weed in a ziplock bag from a sketchy person with faulty scales illegally purchased for $60/eighth and then smoked in hiding? ...or USDA approved superdank of your choice selected and purchased legally at a clean public shop for $16/eighth - and your money goes partially toward getting a little bit of your country back from China???
People, this is a NO BRAINER!!!