More Than 700 Marijuana Plants Found During Investigation

Anyone who has smoked weed or been around someone who smokes it know it is not the “evil” drug it is made out to be and by not allowing it to be legalized is causing more crime with drug pushers and violence influenced by the illigal sales of it. I used to smoke it for medical reasons but quit to go legite by allowing a doctor to put me on xanax. It took me five years and 4 rehabs to get off of this horrible , addictive drug. I lost everything from the “legal” answer to my problems. My story is not the worst i have heard either. I know people who managed to get off and stay off of heroin and crack as well as meth by using pot to minimize the underlying issues. Im 45 years old and gave it up when i quit ciggerettes but if i had to use a controlled legal drug again for whatever reason i would pick up that pipe quick.

justpeace -

Just ask the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. They will all be THRILLED to try and explain to you why it should stay illegal…

@NO SLOPPY 2NDS

That is completely untrue.

There was no federal prohibition of cannabis, in any form, until the 1930s.  Prohibition started for two reasons 1:  as a way of controlling minorities, particularly Mexicans who enjoyed “marihuana” which was a Mexican slang for hand rolled cigarettes.  The other reason is because Harry Anslinger considered cannabis to be a serious threat, and was able to rush through the Tax Stamp Act of 1937, which was later found to be unconstitutional.  If you look at some of the quotes from Harry Anslinger that William Randolph Hearst published in his newspapers you would/should be alarmed.

From wiki:

By using the mass media as his forum (receiving much support from William Randolph Hearst), Anslinger propelled the anti-marijuana sentiment from the state level to a national movement. Writing for The American Magazine, the best examples were contained in his “Gore File”, a collection of quotes from police reports, by later opponents described as police-blotter-type narratives of heinous cases, most with no substantiation, linking graphically depicted offenses with the drug:

  “An entire family was murdered by a youthful addict in Florida. When officers arrived at the home, they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an axe he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He seemed to be in a daze… He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crime. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now he was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said that he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called “muggles,” a childish name for marijuana.“[10]

It appeared that Anslinger was also responsible for racist themes in articles against marijuana in the 1930s:[citation needed]

  “Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy”[11][12]

  “Two Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis.“[12][13]

In the 1970’s the Richard Nixon ordered a federally funded study regarding cannabis. The Shaffer commission went forward and interviewed doctors, psychiatrists, judges, jailers, etc, and studied the medicinal, social, and judicial impact of cannabis, ruled that there should be no federal prohibition. Nixon went against their and cannabis was placed on the newly formed schedule of drugs, as a Schedule 1 drug.  This means that it has no recognized medicinal value and a high likely hood for abuse.  This means that it is considered by the federal government, a more harmful substance than cocaine, which is a Schedule II drug, meaning it can be prescribed by a doctor. 

Medicinal cannabis is gaining support in many states, even Ohio has legislation introduced(but never gotten through committee).

California is the leader in medicinal cannabis, being the first state to authorize its use and allow the most liberal use.  Many people incorrectly say that doctor’s prescribe cannabis in California, this is incorrect, as that would be a violation of federal law.  Doctor’s can merely right a recommendation for cannabis use.

So here we sit, billions of dollars wasted.  Millions of lives needlessly effected by cannabis(almost 900,000 annual arrests, roughly 80% for possession).  Instead of saving billions on law enforcement, billions of prison and judicial costs, and generating billions in tax revenue, we prop up an illegal black market.  Cannabis is estimated to be about 60% of the profit for the drug cartels.

It is clear, beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt, that our prohibition causes more damage than it prevents.

Whoknows,

Thanks for writing. To clarify…

The article states the following was found in the Tartan Fields home:
292 plants in planters
300 to 400 harvested plants

Then, 125 more plants were found in a home on Excalibur Place in Columbus.

If the figures are combined, at the minimum, 717 plants were found during the investigation.

The first sentence of approximately 600 plants was referring to the findings at the Tartan Fields home. I’ve added additional language to clarify this point.

I hope this helps,

my only question is why the headline of this story says “More Than 700 Marijuana Plants Found During Investigation” but the first sentence of the story is “Officials found approximately 600 marijuana plants”

More than 700 or approximately 600??  These reporters need to get their facts straight before posting an article!