Knoxville Bust

[ShootingArts]

canal bank clipping

Reminds me of when carelessness in cannibas triggered a house fire in -----------> San Diego.

Back in the day people routinely had second thoughts about going through the Baton Rouge airport with pot. There was a convenient little bridge over a canal to toss the pot into just before reaching the terminal. It was a yearly thing for a crew to come out from the parish prison every fall to cut and burn the volunteer pot growing all up and down the canal bank. The bonus was the prisoners, guards, firemen and a few policemen all stood downwind as huge piles of pot were torched!

Hu

 

[JoeyA]

Back in the day people routinely had second thoughts about going through the Baton Rouge airport with pot. There was a convenient little bridge over a canal to toss the pot into just before reaching the terminal. It was a yearly thing for a crew to come out from the parish prison every fall to cut and burn the volunteer pot growing all up and down the canal bank. The bonus was the prisoners, guards, firemen and a few policemen all stood downwind as huge piles of pot were torched!

Hu

That would made a heck of a video.

 

[The Renfro]

I thought I reconized a few names also Jam with one pool commentator thrown in.--Leonard

Hahaha The name on the list is Billy Gibson from Newport age 45... Commentator Bill Gibbs is from Crossville TN and is 54ish... He did work at Gibson Guitars years ago so there may be some ebony and rosewood skeletons in his closet.....

 

[ShootingArts]

It did!

That would made a heck of a video.

My brother-in-law was head of fire and security at the airport from almost the time he got out of the navy after a fairly short hitch until he retired so I was aware of it earlier but it made the six o'clock news a few times. One of the funniest clips I had ever seen in those pre internet days. One or more piles of pot over head high torched and everyone obviously downwind. For the record, bro-in-law never appeared in the news reels that I can recall.

Hu

 

[chevybob20]

Since I live in an area of the country known for it's growing co-ops, I can tell you the roadblock to legalization isn't coming from the pill manufacturers...it's coming from the growers themselves. Once legalized, the market will flood, lowering the demand and the prices, add to that that the growers would be expected to collect and pay all taxes resulting from the sales, not to mention any local municipal taxes...and there is very little, if any, meat left on the bone.

With that said...I agree that legalization is the answer, to not only the 'war on pot', but to filling in the holes resulting from loss of tax revenue elsewhere.

Lisa

I agree and will add license fees to the list.. When other tax revenues fail because pot replaced those revenues, the taxes will go up. Look at what the fed and state govs take from tabacco. Pot will get expensive. The posession laws will get tougher when the state starts relying on the sales tax from the legal stuff.

 

[chevybob20]

Cigarettes (nicotine) is the most addictive drug.Period.It kills more people and causes more health problems than all the drugs combined.
Yet it is legal and the goverment subsidizes it.
Something terribly wrong with that picture!

Check up on the current tobacco growing regulations. They don't subsidize it anymore. Rules changed within the last 5 years or so.

 

[DelaWho???]

I agree and will add license fees to the list.. When other tax revenues fail because pot replaced those revenues, the taxes will go up. Look at what the fed and state govs take from tabacco. Pot will get expensive. The posession laws will get tougher when the state starts relying on the sales tax from the legal stuff.

The cost probably wouldn't change all that much. The black market commodity is already very expensive due to the risk of the whole enterprise from incarceration to violence by rivals to tainted product.

Legalization and taxation just shifts the kickback from the criminal gang to the government. The advantage goes to the consumer because he is no longer breaking the law and has legal recourse to address such things as unscrupulous vendors, tainted product etc.

Drug use hasn't stopped nor even been statistically reduced after billions and years spent trying to eliminate it. Better to have it out in the light of day and minimize the criminal element than to continue pouring billions (we don't have) down the drain fighting a never ending and losing battle.

 

[MahnaMahna]

STOP READING INTO SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE!!!!!

These guys did not sell pot because they disagree with it being illegal and sold on moral grounds.

They did it because it was easy money.

They knew it was illegal, got caught, and now they have to pay.

If marijuana becomes legal, some people may begin selling it, but more than likely the type of people mentioned in this article will move onto doing something else that is illegal because they think it is easy money!

 

[DelaWho???]

STOP READING INTO SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE!!!!!

These guys did not sell pot because they disagree with it being illegal and sold on moral grounds.

They did it because it was easy money.

They knew it was illegal, got caught, and now they have to pay.

If marijuana becomes legal, some people may begin selling it, but more than likely the type of people mentioned in this article will move onto doing something else that is illegal because they think it is easy money!

I don't think anyone posting in this thread disputes your statement.

 

[TNKen]

Interesting that a bunch of the folks were from Cocke County Tennessee. Known as the rooster fighting capital of the south. During prohibition and until recent times, known for stills and moonshine. Stills replaced by farms and MJ.

Interesting to note that none of the Cocke County law enforcement involved. My guess is that the feds were trying to get behind the action to see who was covering it. Most of the former sheriff's in Cocke County have left leave in shackles.

 

[DelaWho???]

Interesting that a bunch of the folks were from Cocke County Tennessee. Known as the rooster fighting capital of the south. During prohibition and until recent times, known for stills and moonshine. Stills replaced by farms and MJ.

Interesting to note that none of the Cocke County law enforcement involved. My guess is that the feds were trying to get behind the action to see who was covering it. Most of the former sheriff's in Cocke County have left leave in shackles.

There's an abundance of meth labs in them hills too.

 

[TNKen]

Yeah, forgot about meth. Talked to a friend on the swat team in a rural county here in East Tennessee. Says they are doing two or three raids a week now on meth labs.

Cocke County is certainly in a world of its own. Justice handled the old fashioned way. Only time I ever went to court in Cocke County, I got home cooked big time.