High Times blacklist?

ThatGuy · Post by **ThatGuy** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 03:42 am

i read somehwere (i hope not here...i did a search and didnt find it) that if you subscribe to High Times that you get like blacklisted by the government or something like that...and i just remeber on the forum people agreeing with this aying that this happens

so i wanna jsut make sure im getting it straight that if you subscribe you go on a blacklist.

ThatGuy

mazdog · Post by **mazdog** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 04:10 am

even as bassackwards as our govt' is i would highly doubt they actually actively montior the HT subscription list.

BUT....I still insist on NOT subscribing although i purchase every issue as i have for the past ten years (minus those couple years when it went to shit...early '00's i think). If someone IS watching it best not to be on that list......but if they are watching that list i assume they are watching this website as well as some of the others of this nature i frequent.........not in jail yet.

DrGonzo · Post by **DrGonzo** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 08:42 am

I bet the war on terror takes up most of the US governments watchers' time.

I reckon Pot Heads are pretty low priority now.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 11:31 am

http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v06/n1423/a08.htm?134

We wish - Article from NORML website about record number of arrests.

711 · Post by **711** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 12:08 pm

Great link, Eps.

Rez · Post by **Rez** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 06:13 pm

"Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrests of 18 million Americans," St. Pierre said. "Arresting hundreds of thousands of American who smoke marijuana responsibly needlessly destroys the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens."

so sad... and such a waste of money

711 · Post by **711** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 07:04 pm

Those statistics have to be off, that would imply that 1 in 13 adults has been arrested on a marijuana charge at least once in their life.

mazdog · Post by **mazdog** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 07:19 pm

1 in 13 is believeable to me. It must include repeat offenders and includes charges that are later dismissed etc.

711 · Post by **711** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 07:21 pm

Someone else I was discussing it with said the same thing, but the article clearly says "18 million Americans". And even if it includes arrest with no convictions, that's still a really high number...

Tall Guy · Post by **Tall Guy** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 07:27 pm

"has led to the arrests of 18 million Americans,"

I read it as total, not per annum.

mazdog · Post by **mazdog** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 09:36 pm

its a ridiculous high number but i believe it is fairly accurate....which in turn in just ridiculous.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 10:07 pm

I would read the 18 Million arrests as- since the weed Prohibition began ,what in the 1930s ? ...Seems quite believable to me .

711 · Post by **711** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 11:02 pm

I didn't think we have accurate figures going back that far (sorry twitch, I didn't mean THAT far).

mazdog · Post by **mazdog** » Tue 24th Oct 2006 11:36 pm

so bottomline you just don't/won't believe those number, for whatever reason.......got it.

now, carry on.

711 · Post by **711** » Wed 25th Oct 2006 01:18 am

Yeah, sorry to hijack the thread.