Recreational Marijuana

I must vote against recreational marijuana tomorrow!  OK has a referendum and I fear the people who want to smoke will turn out big while most other people will be apathetic.  We already have “medical” marijuana and such law gets abused, but the real problem is farms, cartels and violent crime.  Because KS prohibits cannabis, the northern tier of counties of OK have a huge marijuana farming business in order to reach across the border. OK charges only 7% tax while other states charge 30% or so. Grow it here! Cropland is cheap in OK.  The Chinese, through corporate entities hide their identity and buy most of this, growing it in hoop greenhouses. Why Chinese? They have other things to sell like fentynal and meth that is also hidden by this business. A friend of ours is a tall, 300 lb. guy who intimidates most people, told about building a stockade fence around one of the farms and said it was like working around armed MS-13 gangsters.  He said he was never so glad to get that job done in his life.  The only thing this industry does that is beneficial is drive up the price of farmland. 

     And then there is the violence in society.  I once belonged to our local jail ministry and one day a criminologist visited one of our gathering in the felony cell that houses violent guys.  He whispered to me, “*0% of these guys are marijuana users.”  Why was that?  In 2000 we didn’t know why, but now research shows that people who are paranoid schizophrenic, the main mental problem that fuels mass murders, have their syndrome increased by marijuana use. And today’s Mary Jane is a dozen times as potent as what college kids smoked in the anti-war years of the 70s. The Sheriffs and Law Enforcement groups are against this, the DAs too.

    Thus I can’t think of any good reason on God’s green earth to encourage this.