Texas Should Legalize Marijuana. Shazamm.

Though I tend to be conservative on many issues, one issue I strongly believe in is the legalization of marijuana in Texas. First off, why not? The last I checked, hundreds of thousands of people are dying each year in the U.S. from tobacco and alcohol use, Not Marijuana! In fact, noone is dying from smoking buda. Now I am not going to sit here and try to argue "marijuana isn't bad for you...It doesn't have negative effects, it doesn't make you lazy..." No way. I absolutely acknowledge the fact that smoking marijuana does inhibit your personality in one way or another. With that said, I also believe marijuana is one of the safer recreational drugs out there, as the numbers clearly show. Not to mention that marijuana actually has medical benefits; is a treatment for cancer, glaucoma, etc.. In analyzing the numbers, it seems absurd that marijuana would be illegal before tobacco and alcohol. Then why? "Traditions of men"...(that's my only explanation for the lunacy)...If legalized and taxed, marijuana would produce massive revenues for the state of Texas. Just think of how many marijuana fields we could fit in west Texas..Those massive revenues, combined with the money that the state wouldn't be spending on locking up all these petty ganga smokers and dealers, Texas would be sitting pretty...This current war on drugs isn't stopping anyone from smoking or dealing marijuana..By legalizing it, we could atleast get rid of one of the two by putting local pot dealers out of business..Many of whom are living off their pot dealing profits and never paying their taxes.
So, hopefully one day Texas and the rest of the United States will wake up to this great economic opportunity and legalize marijuana!!!

Let's Stop these drug cartels!

This blog by Texas Fred, http://texasfred.net/archives/2561, is dead-on. The main topic of this blog is the pitiful excuse for a national border that is the U.S. border, and the growing epidemic that is Mexico's drug cartels crossing the U.S. and having it their way. "Their way," includes the spreading of harmful drugs, murder, kidnapping, and all kinds of heinous acts inside the U.S. These drug cartels need to be dealt with immediately, and Texas Fred puts it best when he describes how we should go about dealing with those who attempt to cross our borders illegally.."ClOSE the border, place armed troops along the border, give those troops the authority to stop this invasion, by any means necessary, even if that includes shooting and killing ANYTHING and/or ANYONE that crosses our border at anything other than a LEGAL border crossing." Right-on Fred... Texas Fred believes that the reason that these drug cartels are even an issue for the U.S. is that our government allows them to be. "If our government was serious about stopping the flow of drugs and ILLEGALS we would have Coast Guard cutters actively patrolling the Gulf of Mexico and both coasts of this nation, in great numbers, and they would be authorized to SINK any and ALL vessels caught in the act of smuggling drugs or any other contraband."...Another reason why these drug cartels will continue to reign is that there is too much corruption amid those in power..These drug cartels have way too much money, and there is too many corrupt officials willing to turn their cheek for the right price..Disgusting..