In no way wishing to excuse the DEA here, Chong had gone to the house to smoke the herb but the bust was for stronger stuff, still debatable on the prohibition angle:

San Diego DEA agent Amy Roderick said earlier on Wednesday in a statement to Yahoo News that Chong was caught in a home raid on a "suspected MDMA distribution organization" that also netted several weapons, 18,000 MDMA ("ecstasy") pills, marijuana, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. "The individual in question was at the house, by his own admission, to get high with his friends," she wrote.

If this doesn't start the process of a serious overhaul of the DEA, on several levels, we're screwed.

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It won't.

Next.

The super-tanker does a U-turn slowly but it is not impossible.

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Shoot, I thought reason would take hold back in the 1970's when it became abundantly clear that marijuana is a relatively benign intoxicant.

But even if it were as poisonous as Datura, who owns your body?

" Dave's Not Here"

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We still have states trying to get Rove vs. Wade overturned, you tell me.

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Some comments on a CBS site:

Oh... this poor "student" is such an innocent upstanding young man. My father used to say "If you lie with the dogs, you're gonna get fleas" and that is why most of us would never put ourselves in Chong's stupid position.

"Chong ended up in DEA custody when he was rounded up with eight other people in a drug raid..."

"about 18,000 MDMA pills, marijuana, prescription medications, hallucinogenic mushrooms, several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the house, the DEA said."

"Chong admitted going to the house "to get high with his friends," the DEA said."

"The student said he ingested a white powder that he found in the cell. Agents later identified it as methamphetamine. Chong said he ingested it to survive. The next day, hallucinations started, he said. They included Japanese animation characters who told him to dig into the walls to search for water, which he tried, tearing apart the wall's plastic lining." - Hey, starving people don't "ingest white powder to survive." Meth and Clorox don't resemble "food" in any way, shape or form and they both smell like the toxic chemicals that they are. METH and its resulting sleep deprivation are what made him do all that crazy stuff. Just say no to deadly toxic chemicals!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57426812-504083/daniel-chong-university-of-california-student-left-in-a-holding-cell-for-4-days-files-$20m-claim-against-dea/

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Well, we know what he's doing with his lawsuit winnings.

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hopefully he will try to enjoy life, the mediterannians and Californians like to drink wine and do that---Pot is definately NO WORSE reguardless of idiot right wing drumm rolling.

100% with you on that one, too.

From the ppl that bring you the War on Drugs. They need to take a look at all the prescription pills that are being pushed down ppls throats. Around here, it seems you can tell the Dr what you want and you can get it. I suspect alot of that would go away if pot were legal.

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As in "Anabelle" Chong???!

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I am with you on this one cmac.
He was doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why should the public medical system have to pick up the tab for mental illness for those with mental conditions caused by substance abuse?
The latest research on the current pot in use shows that its not the harmless party drug that some keep telling us.
He was there along with 18,000 MDMA pills ~ is he going to say for personal use?
Probably ingested the Meth to hide what was in his system when he was arrested.
Over here he would have been blood tested as soon as he was taken in.

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1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
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Why should be medical system have to pick up the tab for the kidney condition of someone almost murdered by dehydration? Anyone condoning this CRIME in any way is an utter f**king scumbag in my book. The DEA agents should be getting booked for attempted murder right about now.

BTW - alcohol isn't a "harmless party drug" and liver transplants are expensive. No one is talking about banning booze, and it hasn't been on the US agenda for about 80 years.

Get it right. It's The War on Some Drugs. Credit to Neil Boortz for originally pointing this out many years ago.

Pot does need to be legal. I did some numbers on a marijuana tax and concluded it would raise an easy twenty billion dollars a year in revenue, not to mention all the money we could save by not incarcerating people. I've seen what happens with people who take too many prescription pain meds and it's way worse than smoking a lot of pot.

Last time I was forced to visit a doctor I did in fact get what I wanted: A letter specifically stating that I was "fit for full duty" and "world wide deployable", with an M.D.'s signature on it. That only cost me about a hundred bucks, and I have health insurance.

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