Fired News Day

It's back!  Just when you thought it was safe to go back to my blog...

Hopefully no one was really that naive...

One quick news item, but it's really an important one.  I think it brings a new and sorely needed voice to the debate over legalizing marijuana:

Jan. 14, 2010 09:56 AM Associated Press

KINSTON, N.C. - An undercover drug buy led North Carolina detectives to an underground marijuana garden in a buried school bus.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office had been looking for the source of the marijuana for three years and had been flying over the area with a helicopter.
Then sheriff's narcotics officers bought several pounds of pot in a recent undercover buy. Sgt. Eddie Eubanks says officers traced the pot to a rural residence.
A search dog fell through a camouflaged trap door leading down to a full-length school bus buried 8 feet under a backyard tool shed.

The way I see it (and no, I really don't care if anyone thinks that a man with a village in his head can be thought to have a somewhat suspect outlook, especially in regards to pharmacology), if marijuana were legal, there would be no reason to push the limits of technology as these enterprising souls have done.  Re-purposing an old school bus, developing sophisticated techniques of camouflage and concealment, providing premium growing conditions in an underground bunker - just a few of the strides these inventors have taken.  Their work has huge implications in waste-recycling, military applications, and survival in harsh environments - even on other planets!

I tip my hat to you, Mr. "Grew-my-pot-in-a-buried-school-bus-under-a-storage-shed-in-rural-North-Carolina-for-three-years-without-getting-caught" Man!

All because pot is illegal.  Legalize marijuana?  I respond with a resounding "No!"  Make it even MORE illegal!!!  Stimulate the inventive, innovative, competitive spirit that made this country great!

Of course, it might bear mentioning that anyone ambitious enough to bury a school bus 8-feet-deep, erect a tool shed over it, and carry on the work of farming underground, may not actually be a habitual marijuana user.

Just sayin'...