"These guys are literally stockbrokers and hedge fund people, trying to figure out how to get into the business," said Dillon, uncharacteristically attired in a sports jacket and a button-down shirt, glancing over his shoulder. "They have no regard for the environment, the culture, the land, the communities involved. They have absolutely no stake in any of those things. It's all about the money." https://www.ecowatch.com/humboldt-marijuana-1954674793.html
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204. Fools assume that thought can be strengthened by the use of narcotics, but the mental spasms that result do not contribute to evolution. Even the emanations of drugs attract dangerous entities, which pick up fragments of thought and weave harmful tissue out of them. Everyone can remember how their useful thoughts were sometimes distorted. Look for the cause in your surroundings, and you will surely find it.
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11-9-16 When California voters approved Proposition 64 on Tuesday, the basic idea was simple: a majority of people in America's most populous state believe that adults should be able to consume marijuana if they feel like it, like a glass of wine at 5 o'clock. But the details of the proposition, which stretches more than 60 pages, are complicated.
TIME spoke to Amanda Reiman, the Drug Policy Alliance's manager of marijuana law and policy, to talk about what people should know. By a margin of about 56% to 44%, voters passed Proposition 64, making California the fifth state to legalize recreational pot, after Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Later in the evening, results came in showing that voters in Massachusetts and Nevada did the same. (Sacramento to start issuing licenses for rec. marijuana growing/using in early 2018). http://time.com/4565438/california-marijuana-faq-rules-prop-64/
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The AP released a story earlier in 2017 that projects in California more than $7 billion in value as an industry, and more than $1 billion in tax revenue locally. Per year! California’s appetite for pot reflects more than 10% of the country’s pot business. http://www.socalprofessional.com/2017/06/pot-economy-projected-at-more-than-7-billion-in-california-but/
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7-21-17 Humboldt County is estimated to have between 8,000 to 10,000, and maybe even more, marijuana grows. Pot is everywhere. Piles of shake are sometimes left on the side of the road. Buds get dropped in tip jars. You can drive around and see and smell marijuana plants. There's a grow there and a grow here, right out in the open. http://www.madriverunion.com/todays-mad-river-current-who-gets-busted-for-growing-pot-who-does-not-and-how-much-pot-can-you-legally-have/
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11-6-14 Due to Proposition 47, it’s likely the suspect won’t ever see the inside of a jail cell for such a charge, which had support from 58.5 percent of voters in California's Tuesday’s general election.
Proposition 47 mandates a misdemeanor sentence instead of a felony one (at least a year in jail) for most drug and theft-related crimes. (Click here for a link to the Secretary of State’s summary.)
The offenses now reduced to misdemeanors include: shoplifting; check forgery for less than $950; grand theft of any form for less than $950; receiving stolen property for the same amount; and possession of GHB (a “date rape” drug), heroin, concentrated cannabis, methamphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine and other drugs previously considered felonies. http://www.hometownstation.com/santa-clarita-news/crime/court/prop-47-turns-drug-felonies-into-misdemeanors-92641
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6-24-14 Pemex operated as a state-owned monopoly for 75 years before finally opening up the oil market at the end of last year, is run more like a government agency than an actual business. Just like most government bureaucracies, that means operating absent of any sort of basic financial accountability. Last year alone, Pemex lost $13 billion. The trend has continued into 2014, with Pemex reporting losses of almost $3 billion in the first quarter of this year.
Perhaps this is why Pemex is forced to seek financing on the backs of American taxpayers instead of private sector banks, who most likely know well enough to stay away from a company like Pemex. https://americansforprosperity.org/subsidizing-the-cartels-the-export-import-bank-and-the-mexican-drug-war/
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8-11-15 You can see their young eyes peering through face masks, or smirking with a high-powered weapon in their hands. They are known as child hitmen, and for Mexican drug cartels they are a disposable part of the narco trafficking business.
Mostly young males, the new breed of hitmen are both victims of cartels as well as "victimizers" for carrying out cartel violence, a report by the newswire service EFE said. And for many of the recruits who hail from impoverished backgrounds, the dangerous cartel life is the only one they know. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Mexican-drug-cartels-are-increasingly-using-kids-6437507.php
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7-18-12 "President Bush's 2001 executive order severed this line by transferring to the CIA his unique authority to approve assassinations. By removing himself from the decision-making cycle, the president shielded himself -- and all elected authority -- from responsibility should a mission go wrong or be found illegal. When the CIA transferred the assassination unit to Blackwater, it continued the trend. CIA officers would no longer participate in the agency's most violent operations, or witness them. If it practiced any oversight at all, the CIA would rely on Blackwater's self-reporting about missions it conducted. Running operations through Blackwater gave the CIA the power to have people abducted, or killed, with no one in the government being exactly responsible." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-terrifying-background-of-the-man-who-ran-a-cia-assassination-unit/259856/
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-Valdez Cardenas: The Taken, U. Oklahoma Press, 2017, introduction--book on Sinaloa Drug War; see https://books.google.com/books?id=vITvDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT41&lpg=PT41&dq=cartel+hire+us+soldiers+assassins&source=bl&ots=MVUdw43oSt&sig=KLqcph-PTykCMbvtz2Hi6jHgrg4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir5o7MytjWAhVqslQKHdt5B4c4FBDoAQhGMAc#v=onepage&q&f=false
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