By Nathan Barton
My oh my. What’s a cop to do? CBS Chanel 4 in Denver reports that despite marijuana being legal now in Colorado (even for – gasp! Recreational use), the Denver Police are seizing greater and greater quantities of cannabis, and are running out of room to store the evidence. And even worse, the stuff is molding!
Obviously, MJ is not really legal in Colorado – not based on this. Only SOME MJ is legal: small amounts. It is as if you were told that “you can only have a case or a small keg of beer, only a couple of cartons or cans of tobacco, or only a single weapon.” And if you have any more, they will (a) steal it from you, (b) arrest you and try you and seek to punish you for this awful crime. Some freedom, eh?
This is fascinating and important when you consider what is going on in California in this year’s election. “As California gets set to vote on legalizing marijuana in less than a month, one group of voters remains oddly ambivalent: cannabis farmers. A California Growers Association poll found that among its 750 farmers, distributors, and retailers, only 31 percent support Prop. 64’s campaign to legalize recreational marijuana, reports Reuters. The majority of growers are still on the fence when it comes to Prop. 64, as 38 percent of those polled still aren’t sure which side they’ll be voting on. There are also 31 percent of growers that are downright opposed to legalization, citing massive red tape and regulatory oversight that may push smaller growers out of the industry completely.” [As Steve Trenward noted: A crony-corp cartel, no matter what the substance, does not mean a “free market”] Continue reading →
In the summer of 1982, I rented a very strange old house with a long history. In a town with very little rental property available, it was both cheap and ready for me to move in… which should have told me something. But I was desperate, and making only “minimum wage” at the time while I was in college for my degree. So I just counted my blessings.
The Price of Liberty 
Election end-game nears? (Not hardly)
By Nathan Barton
As Wikileaks and others release more and more information about one of the four pieces of work running nationwide for Massa in 2016, and as more and more people chime in on issues and potential outcomes, it seems very likely to Mama Liberty and I that it won’t all be over even when the last polls are closed and the votes are counted on the 8th of November (if indeed, all the votes are counted as quickly as usual). The media and the claims of fraud and more will then kick in, and it may not even be decided by the Electoral College in December.
Things are enough up in the air that even the Joint Chiefs are seeing fit to remind the members of the Armed Services of their duties and restrictions, as reported by a writer for iPatriot.com. The Chiefs emphasize “peaceful transition” and “political neutrality” during (and following) the election process. The writer speculates if this is a response to rumbling in the ranks (where it is reported that Gary Johnson has more votes than Hillary Clinton), or due to home front intell that, regardless of who wins the popular votes and seems to have sufficient Electoral College votes to gain office, that there will be violence both in the streets and perhaps in various offices and boardrooms and the like. No one seems to be saying anything about how the rest of the world will respond, or if any action is seriously anticipated on the part of such as China, Russia, North Korea, or the Caliphate (Islamic State). The closest anyone has come is speculation that the current regime in DC might request “UN assistance.” Continue reading →