Drug War Stories: Attacked in Arvada

in war •  7 years ago 


So dude man got sentenced to over one year federal style cage for mailing a substance that brings joy to video gamers and foodies a like. The businessman was trying to supply a market the government has proven incapable of quashing. Instead of letting deals go down via the mail or in safe shops, the storm troopers force it into alley ways. And when there's a problem instead of courts and equity, people have only vigilante justice or biting the lose as tools in they box.

The article in reference seems to go into the pot through the mail industry. The article asserts a chicago mail center has seen a 2,000 times increase from 2010-2014 for Colorado dope. The processing facility in Chicago processed an estimated 155 billion pieces of mail with nearly 10k, or 80% of it containing laughing grass containing about 40k lbs. The article goes on to assert United States Postal Inspection Service seized in 2016 about 854 parcels of mail from Colorado a 32% increase over the previous fiscal year of 581 containers seized.

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http://www.westword.com/news/mark-koenig-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison-for-mailing-marijuana-9972580


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155 billion pieces of mail with nearly 10k, or 80% of it .. What kind of stoner math is this ?
The more I look at this terribly written post with a massive payout thanks to bidbots the more annoyed I get, flagging for disagreement over rewards.

@v4vapid already discussed this with ausbit, the bad math is from the underlying article which makes the numbers not very clear. My post was 150+ charachters and released public domain so people can reference my response and summary of the underlying article for free.

Took me months to get the amount you guys downvoted btw doing surveys and watching videos so i could actually make enough power on steem to quit doing that shit.

I spent sufficent proof of brain on this post and complied with all posted downvote guidelines. Honestly these downvotes make me just want to quit steem. I fucking hate this stress. I am hoping to start a vlog and make better content so you guys will leave me alone.

But very disappointed you seem to want to minimize and silence my voice about how fucked up these drug war stories are. I am thinking about quitting posting everyday as fatkat and learnguitar so i dont get this stress anymore and just sell my upvote. But if the vlog stuff goes somewhere then may have to put up with the fucked up bullying. Post why you guys downvote and I will follow it. Tell me revisions to do to unearn downvotes and I am more than happy.

Thanks for your time.

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yea idk pretty lame and aggressive to destroy all this money that took months to earn the amounts of these downvotes.

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Weed is still listed as a schedule 1....which implies 0 medical uses....ridiculous, hopefully some sanity returns to the elite

yes it is very despicable the current state of federal intervenetion

So tobacco, fast food and alcohol must have some health benefits if they're legal 🙃 unless we're living in an upside down world. Surely the group of people that take 1/2 of our wealth know what's best for our health and well being too.

the world is pretty much upside down then. Hopefully we are free someday

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You are smart
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Kids , don't do drugs

yea, best for them to be kids, but still doesnt make putting people into cages any better

weed isn't good for health

i have yet to see any credible evidence of that?

I am not sure what this statement is based on. They are curing people of cancer with weed in the US right now as well as using it for countless other beneficial uses for health.

yea i have heard way more evidence for it helping as a medicine especially for anorexia

I agree with you.
Especially for mental health. From the moment you smoke for the first time, normal activities like riding a bike or chess game stop enjoying. Everything gets boring. Only smoking gives pleasure.
It takes some time to start enjoying normal things again but it will never be the same again.

uhh chess and biking are way better when stoned from what i heard?

Of course better. Much better. That is the problem.
If something is better after smoking it is worse before smoking :) So it does not taste the same as before but worse :)
After you smoke for the first time, you have a comparison.
You do not enjoy as much as you used to do with basic activities like eating chocolate.
It is very simply to understand if you are open minded.

You must take prescription drugs to come up with that statement. People do not stop enjoying what they enjoyed before smoking pot. your statement is completely ridiculous. I have know lots of people that smoke, none of them stopped all pleasures of life just to smoke. They do not consider everything boring nor is it the only thing that gives them pleasure. Let me guess, you are one of those that believe in kill the ego part of yourself. I myself do not smoke nor use, but like I said I know a lot of people that do, some of them can even add 1+1 and get 2. Many "mental health" issues are helped by the use of pot. Especially PTSD, or would you rather have people on psychotic medication that list the number one side effect as "may lead to thoughts of suicide" yeah thats is some healthy alternative to marijuana. Look at reality instead of being a member of the white coat boot lick society.

You wrote that you do not smoke. So what can you say about the feelings of people who smoke?

I do not question the importance of marijuana in medicine.

I did not say medications are a better alternative to marijuana.

I do not know what you're trying to say.
I advise people not to try? And you?

dude what you said is just not true ask anyone who has smoked??

correct, absolute nonsense comment

One by one the states will make pot legal till the fed has to change. lol ... brief optimistic view... a guy can dream.

yep, will be interesting how the war on weed ends in merica

nice story

spam comment, people downvote these kinds of comment man

So regrettable. The DEA has spent such a long time fighting weed, and to turn around the subject is too much against their pride, despite state-wide support. True ignorance...and hypocrisy.

yep, thanks for your ideas, hopefully we will be free someday!!

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Isn't it if it's from within the states to within the states, a warrant needs to be obtained to open it? Where as from out of the country customs has more authority..? Carl Sagan said he though legalizing cannabis would happen soon when he was younger. He has been dead for quite a while now.. I really wish it will happen, but with Jeff sessions there is no way. People made Obama out to be reasonable and he didn't even touch weed laws. They say it was Dupont who made cannabis illegal, who knows who it really was.. it's the prison/police system complex, and the drug companies that win from it now

the us congress passed the controlled substances act and the federal marihuana tax act that helped create the criminalization, i am not an attorney so not sure the legal aspects. Hopefully we will be free someday, cool profile pic!!

agreed. but in my side along roads many plants of marijuna are grown and we dont care about them. Now what we do about it. @fatkat

not sure, hopefully convince everyone to embrace a free society

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Market work is a good work and you can also investment in this work and take a profilt from it market work is also covers in international level

what does this have to do with my post?

no, people downvote your kind of spam comment btw

nice post.

spam comment could be on any post, people downvote your kind of comment

One year for mailing a bit of weed! wow...

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yea it is very sad

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good

what is good, people downvote spam comments that have nothing to do with the post

Quality content.
After drug regulation there is always a peak for a couple of years. Then tends to stabilize and the best part is, in the long run, numbers keep going down.
Clear example to your post is Holland. Followed!

yea, hopefully we can start helping people and stop letting storm troopers put people in cages for nonviolent conduct

不知道在说什么

sorry im ignorant merican, but people usually downvote one word posts

Hugs No Drugs

freedom realizes better choices

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I upvoted u plz UPvote me plz

no, you will be downvoted by people if you keep begging and making spam comments

They still don't get it.

I dont understand, but very sad such a failed system continues unabated.

I like your post.gif

spammy comment, people downvote this kind of stuf

very nice story! the government is unfair (legalization)

i agree, hopefully we will be free someday
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lol i live in Arvada

intersting, well sorry to be the bearer of bad news of your area hurting people for victimless condeuct

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a 2000 times increase is a massive oe

yep, very large change

better in canada for mail order.. fast and you can even order a few lbs

sounds pretty nice, how much is a pound?

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check my posts about cannabis

will try thanks

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cool, actually legal where anyone can grow and deal any amount without bs licensing fees, or fake legal where people who currently grow and deal will still be criminals for the most part?

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One day, drugs will wipe our civilization off the face of the earth

sounds preposterous, how could drugs destroy an entire civilization from a planet?

Ridiculous!
A plant, given to us by Mother Nature..
Should never, ever be illegal and/or restricted
in any way, shape, or form

yea, i think people should be free

Create A PAC and gather donations is the only way to legalization. What do you think about the PACs that are currently representing the industry ?

i think most are shills and do a terrible job, hope to try to legalize it in ohio somehow someday

Passing over the obvious injustice of the sentence. It strikes me as in many ways beneficial to move the black market drug trade on to the internet. It'll presumably cut the amount of violence between drug gangs over 'turf', because the internet does not have that spatial element. They'll still want to compete with each other, but without access to each others personal space, their competition will have to be non-violent. At that point, you've arguably got to start respecting and rewarding your customers if you want to gain an advantage. Unless you hire mercenary hackers, but let's not make this shit too complicated.
A lot of people might not realise just how easy it is to send drugs through the post. Postmen are delivering parcels all over the place without a clue. And it's a fairly safe way to go about doing it for the buyer. In the event the contents of your parcel is uncovered, the police would have to prove you paid for it, and it wasn't just sent to you at random. Why would they do that? Who knows, but it's possible, so it's a legal defense. I imagine some dealers also like the fact that there doesn't have to be any kind of face to face handover.

yea it is interesting how technology is transforming prohibitions

good

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Great article and I’m a huge supporter of the cannabis industry (as well as a consumer) but...we still have to uphold the laws. No matter how fucked up they are. Hopefully, though, things will change and everyone will be able to legally enjoy what nature has provided.

yea the people who murderd jesus and socrates and did the holocaust were just upholding the law too

Wow. That was a stretch...

In Nepal people use Cannabis in Ayurveda medicine. We just celebrated one national festival yesterday which is related to Cannabis. People smoke Cannabis openly on this festival. You can see more on my last post " Crowd and Cannabis" .

nice will check it out, sounds pretty cool, thanks!!

Yeah, It can be interesting ! Thank you so much my friend !

No disrespect. but this is a horrible article. Come on, put a little more effort in it. And look at the payout at that. WOW.

what is horrible about it? I am just summarizing a different article and releasing my summary public domain? and please dont ever worry about offending me or disrespecting me

First of all, if you are summarizing an article provide some context. I do not know what you are talking about and I was honestly interested in where exactly all this was coming from. Also, look at this quote: “And when there's a problem instead of courts and equity, people have only vigilante justice or biting the lose as tools in they box.”

I can assume what you are saying but it is choppy and incoherent and again I was left asking myself, what is going on here? If it is a case that you wanted to be poetic I could understand, but when summarizing an article I am not certain if this is the right approach.

There are other examples but I won’t get into them. I was also looking at the first and second part of your article. I assume you are trying to say that a lot of cannabis is being sent through the postal system, but then, again, so what? Are you trying to say that the authorities should lay off this one guy because so much ganja is being transported through the mail? I can only assume that this is what you are saying. I am not getting it. It all seems to disjointed.

I personally am opposed to prohibition, and hence I am interested in finding out how the PTB are fighting it. I have other stuff to say, but in a nutshell, some context would have been appreciated and you could have tightened the piece and bring the first and second sections together to make it flow. Sorry if I came off as being harsh, but I love my green and I want to know what is going on with it.

Peace man. I will follow and read up on your stuff.

i thought having source was clear where it was coming from, thanks for the follow and reads and for your ideas!! Yea sorry summarizing and adding my own voice, so dual purposes.

The main goal of drug war stories is to tell the stories of the victims of this mass madness.

No problem man. I would just love a deeper story. A real face to see exactly what these assholes in authority are doing. Peace.

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