Sanctuary has consequences.

[Amoebah]

Was looking at a place just up the hill from the viper room recently, so i know about the prices.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I've made most of my play already......leaving is the only thing I really have left to do here.

I like my little world up here in the mountains just south of the Oregon border, but if the state is successful at shutting me down to "save the planet" aka someone else's business/share of the market....then I'm out, effectively run out of California, by high order of some government twat in Sacramento.

 

[Amoebah]

I've made most of my play already......leaving is the only thing I really have left to do here.

I like my little world up here in the mountains just south of the Oregon border, but if the state is successful at shutting me down to "save the planet" aka someone else's business/share of the market....then I'm out, effectively run out of California, by high order of some government twat in Sacramento.

You’ve been threatening to leave since luk’s beard wore a size 8.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Leave on your own terms then. Hell, who knows, you might even grow to like the Ozarks...

 

[BotanyBoy]

You’ve been threatening to leave since luk’s beard wore a size 8.

It's more of a reality of having my livelihood and sense of purpose in life cut off by silicon valley techies and hollywood elitist do-gooders who have decided Sacramento needs to manage my life for me because they know better than I do.

The only people making threats are the douche nozzles in Sacramento looking for ways to shut down businesses wherever they can.

Leave on your own terms then. Hell, who knows, you might even grow to like the Ozarks...

I like it here though.

As long as I can keep doing what I like to do and be part of the elite class that gets access to the markets....I'll stay.


I did love KY/TN/NC's country though...beautiful. But the hyper aggro Bible thumpers, blue laws, cannabis laws and all the other totalitarian statist Republican bullshit is just too much for me.

If California decides to run me off I'll either be setting up with a view of Lake Superior or Kachemak Bay. Somewhere I can have a beer on Sunday and smoke a joint without the fear of the storm troopers blowing my doors off, shooting all my animals including the fuckin' betta fish, assaulting if not also shooting me and my family, seizing all my property to be auctioned off regardless of the charges if there even are any.

You know, all those wonderful Republican things that ran me out of the area in the first place.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I think you're exaggerating when it comes to the sentence containing the word "Bible-Thumpers." There aren't too many blue laws left and law enforcement worries more about meth than pot. Most of the "Republicanism" you decry is more of a Libertarianism, sort of a "as long as you stay out of my backyard, I'll stay out of yours."

 

[bellisarius]

There's a lot of places in the West that you won't be molested as well. Lot of places in NM, CO, UT, and ID. Just have to make sure the bill of sale comes with water rights.

 

[Amoebah]

Lincoln should have moved the northerners to the south and the southerners to the north as a reward for winning.

Why should the retards get to keep the better weather?

 

[WoundedKnee]

The heat, the bugs, the tornadoes and the Hurricanes?

 

[bellisarius]

The heat, the bugs, the tornadoes and the Hurricanes?

The fire ants alone are reason enough to have second thoughts.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Indeed. Let's talk aggressive, poisonous water-loving snakes while we're at it.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I think you're exaggerating when it comes to the sentence containing the word "Bible-Thumpers." There aren't too many blue laws left and law enforcement worries more about meth than pot.

In 2007 alone I had no less than 3 different bible thumpers stick their foot in my door to make sure I finished listening to their proselytizing. Christian county, Hopkinsville KY, also a dry county...because Jesus.

And I just watched a the Sheriffs department in TN do a raid on a guy and his family outside of Memphis for 1.2oz of weed on TV, 2017. They were very proud of the 2.7 million dollars (estimated street value) of narcotics off the streets.

Shot their labrador and beat dad's ass in front of the kids....all to make sure that oz of Marijuana didn't ruin any of their lives.

What a bunch of cunts...republican thuggery at it's finest.

Most of the "Republicanism" you decry is more of a Libertarianism, sort of a "as long as you stay out of my backyard, I'll stay out of yours."

Hua? I agree with libertarianism far more than most of the garbage that is currently or has been coming from the GOP.

Which still includes their desire to take all my shit and put me in prison for a plant.

 

[bellisarius]

They do have attitudes, don't they?

 

[WoundedKnee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why do you copy the Progressives here and find isolated examples to apply to the whole?

 

[WoundedKnee]

They do have attitudes, don't they?

They make our Progressive trolls here look like Bo..., er, I mean Androgynous Scouts.

 

[bellisarius]

It's not as bad as it once was but most of the people that ran afoul of the law in the rural south did so not because of politics. They weren't paying proper homage ($$$) to the local Sheriff. Outsiders were especially vulnerable. After all, NO ONE that actually lived in Ludowici GA ever got a speeding ticket.

 

[Captainnumnuts]

It's not as bad as it once was but most of the people that ran afoul of the law in the rural south did so not because of politics. They weren't paying proper homage ($$$) to the local Sheriff. Outsiders were especially vulnerable. After all, NO ONE that actually lived in Ludowici GA ever got a speeding ticket.

^^^^This. Yes. Thank God it's changing^^^^

I've had the dubious distinction of the good ole' boy saying, "Don't fuck with that kid. You know he ain't right in the head."

 

[BotanyBoy]

They do have attitudes, don't they?

Dancing with snakes and "speaking in tongues" gives em' an ego trip of sorts I suppose.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why do you copy the Progressives here and find isolated examples to apply to the whole?

Because it's NOT isolated.

There were 1.3 million people in 2016 alone were locked up for possession, an estimated 70% of which is for cannabis.

That's with over half the states in the country de-criminalizing/legalizing it....meaning those were almost certainly majority red state arrests.

 

[Amoebah]

There's a lot of places in the West that you won't be molested as well.

You moved ?

 

[WoundedKnee]

Maybe a valid stat, maybe not. I tend to think that for those 1.3 arrested, possession was but one of the charges, and probably a lesser one.

 

[Pookie]

Maybe a valid stat, maybe not. I tend to think that for those 1.3 arrested, possession was but one of the charges, and probably a lesser one.

This is from 2014, so it is a little dated ...

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_560978a7e4b0768126fe6506

Law enforcement officers made just over 700,000 arrests on marijuana-related charges in 2014, according to data released by the FBI on Monday. Of that total, 88.4 percent — or about 619,800 arrests — were made for marijuana possession alone, a rate of about one arrest every 51 seconds over the entire year.

While the national conversation about marijuana continued to shift in 2014, with recreational weed laws fully in effect in Colorado and Washington — and measures to legalize the plant being passed in Washington, D.C., Oregon and Alaska — the year also saw a reversal in a seven-year trend of largely declining possession arrests.

The 2014 figures mark a minor uptick from 2013, a year that saw 609,570 people booked on possession charges alone. Arrests for possession, however, have generally been trending downward since 2007, when they reached an all-time high of 775,137.

 

[bellisarius]

Out here mere possession is cheaper than a traffic ticket, $50. Soon to be reduced to $25 unless you have a medical card which is a 'get out of jail free' card for possession.

 

[Pookie]

1 oz. or less in South Carolina will get you 30 days or up to $200 fine for first offense. Typically you just get the fine.

Subsequent offenses get expensive and can come with a year of room and board.

Don't get caught with more than an ounce.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Maybe a valid stat, maybe not. I tend to think that for those 1.3 arrested, possession was but one of the charges, and probably a lesser one.

It's close enough.

And think whatever you want, bottom line is big government loving Republicans still stand behind their failed war on weed and where they still have the authority pursue it.

Out here mere possession is cheaper than a traffic ticket, $50. Soon to be reduced to $25 unless you have a medical card which is a 'get out of jail free' card for possession.

I'm willing to bet there are weights tied to how much.

Still a scam. Drugs, sex and rock n' roll should be taxed up front and left alone like any other commodity/service.

 

[Aglaopheme]

This is yet another whining about your safe space Lit thread isn’t it?