Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Big, Scary Drug Bust!

[The War on Some Drugs] We can all breathe a sigh of relief since the defenders of public order were brave enough to stand up to a "drug operation" in southern Utah.

No, it wasn't a bunch of crazy rednecks manufacturing crank or armed gangsters smuggling heroin across the border. It was a few pot farms.

Still, the D-News breathlessly reported that it "may be one of the largest drug busts in state history" and, predictably, failed to offer a single quote from a grower or legalization advocate.

(Brandon Burt)

3 comments:

  1. ...and why would they offer a quote from a grower or an advocate? I believe the point was to show how they shut down an operation that, the last time I checked, was illegal. They don't go out getting quotes from meth heads or coke heads either. If you want to grow something, try corn!

    T

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  2. Marijuana isn't illegal everywhere, anonymous, and there's a substantial plurality that thinks it should be legalized.

    That plurality would quickly become a clear majority if the media covered these stories in a balanced, objective way.

    Instead, the media unthinkingly reports on only one side of the story: That of government dittoheads who think of marijuana as a "drug," as if it were in the same class as heroin--and who think of pot-smokers as "criminals," overtaxing the legal system and making it more difficult to deal with real crime.

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  3. the category -- the war on some drugs -- fantabulous!!! I'm stealing that phrase.

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