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The San Diego Pot and Coke Connection at work
JW, I'm not vouching for Stamper, just that what he said in that instance was true. Your claim that there is no indication that a larger population would become addicts is just plain false. There is no evidence that a greater percentage of people would be susceptible to addiction if you widen the availability of a few choices to match the existing availability of alcohol and prescription drugs. Crime would in fact go down, as you lessen the financial burden on the user and take the profit out of it for the gangs and smugglers. I dearly hope you don't partake yourself or associate with anybody that ever sips alcohol or takes any mood altering prescription drug of any kind. Some would extend that to caffeine, so in their world coke, coffee and tea drinkers would also have to go so you can "live our drug free lives". I have one glass of wine maybe one or two days a week. Your theory is that I should be an alcoholic, yet I am not. Why? I was exposed to both marijuana and cocaine in high school and in college, yet I don't use either even though it is available. Why? I don't want my kids to do drugs and I don't want them to be around drug users. I also don't want them to drink and to be around alcoholics. Can you not see the parallel there?— April 27, 2009 9:42 a.m.
The San Diego Pot and Coke Connection at work
JW, If you want to stop drug trafficking and border smuggling overnight, then legalize marijuana and cocaine. Take the profit out of it, and the violence disappears while you actually make money through legal taxation rather than spend billions annually fighting a border war. The taxes can be used for education and rehabilitation programs which would be no different than what we currently see for alcohol and prescription drugs. As Fred said, there is no indication that a huge new segment of the population would become drug addicts that are not already inclined to have a problem with alcohol, prescription drugs or readily available illegal drugs. In fact, I would prefer less expensive marijuana so that there is less crime involved in trying to purchase it. Read Matt Potters post under this blog titled "Stamper stumps for pot". It quotes Seattle police chief and former SDPD assistant chief Stumper saying: "Over the past four years I've asked police officers throughout the U.S. (and in Canada) two questions. When's the last time you had to fight someone under the influence of marijuana? (I'm talking marijuana only, not pot plus a six-pack or a fifth of tequila.) My colleagues pause, they reflect. Their eyes widen as they realize that in their five or fifteen or thirty years on the job they have never had to fight a marijuana user. I then ask: When's the last time you had to fight a drunk? They look at their watches."— April 27, 2009 8:09 a.m.
Lead Indicators of San Diego Economy as Gloomy as Ever
Yeah, we better get right on all those new tax increases so the few working people left can pay for all the unemployment payments and the increased bureaucracy to handle them. That ought to help the economy get moving.... :(— March 27, 2009 9:36 a.m.
The Padres’ Mystery Lineup
Matt, did the city ever apply Section 225 to Padres L.P. in the first place? My guess is that they probably didn't, or that if they did, the ownership was made up largely of other Delaware companies and that their ownership was not disclosed. I wonder how much of the Padres Valerie Stallings owns? (tongue firmly in cheek) My understanding is that the city routinely does major business with Delaware companies and rarely invokes Section 225.— March 25, 2009 2:40 p.m.
Does new convention center in San Diego make any sense?
"The bar for dealing with reality in San Diego has never been set very high.” I am not sure whether to laugh or to cry. I just wish there was some justification to say it isn't true, but I can't think of any. BTW: MGM is almost bankrupt and is nearing default (to a Dubai group?!?) on the biggest private development ever in the US, and the Wynn group is down something like 80%. What a great time to be competing with Vegas on convention costs. (In case I wasn't obvious enough. the previous comment was dripping with sarcasm.)— March 25, 2009 12:40 p.m.
Owner of Plane that Crashed in Montana Appears to Have San Diego Connections
Not that it really matters much, but the AP was quoting Flight Aware, a service that tracks air traffic, and for some reason Mayor Sanders' press secretary also released a statement that the plane originated at Brown Field. Assuming the plane was overloaded when it left California, wouldn't it be substantially lighter by the time it got to Wyoming because of the fuel burned?— March 23, 2009 4:08 p.m.
Owner of Plane that Crashed in Montana Appears to Have San Diego Connections
SurfPuppy619: The plane actually originated at San Diego's Brown field (not Redlands) and then flew to Redlands, Vacaville and oroville before heading for Butte. econobiker: They very well may have overloaded the plane with stuff, but it is hard to argue that the weight of two extra people was an issue when you include kids aged 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 7 and 9. Those seven kids would be less than the equivalent of 3 adults (even if the kids are exceptionally well fed). The 1 and 3 year olds could definitely be on laps, and the 4 year olds could also be on laps at least part of the time if needed.— March 23, 2009 2:32 p.m.
EDC PR Machine Takes Credit for NY Times Fluff Piece
He just wrote one about Denver as well. Do you suppose the NYT gets paid to run these???? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/business/07denv…— March 4, 2009 5:01 p.m.
SDCERS Lowers DROP Interest Rate to 3.54 Percent, Says DeMaio
Response to #39: The $13 trillion will be paid back, that is not in question. The real question is, after the treasury prints enough money to pay it off, whether we will be able to hold enough money in a wheelbarrow to buy a loaf of bread.— March 3, 2009 9:27 p.m.
USD 29th in Undergrad Business Education, Says Business Week
Did they move up because schools like Harvard have been expelled and sent to the end of the list?— March 2, 2009 11:46 a.m.