The War on Weed Continues in West Virginia
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Liberty and Justice for the Rich
@stevegoldstine9001
3 күн бұрын
Looks like justice was served. Some drug dealer selling drugs from a state park. This punk deserves 10 years.
@DeenanTheKemon1
3 күн бұрын
@@stevegoldstine9001I wish my dad was rich.
@utolean3025
3 күн бұрын
@@stevegoldstine9001I hope you have that same enthusiasm about Big pharma 🙄
@charlesmoore9547
Күн бұрын
@@stevegoldstine9001he wasn't selling anything. When growing a plant that has never killed anyone carries more time than does a rape sentence.
It's all about money
@jacobmiller6031
4 күн бұрын
Money being merely another tool to gain Power!
@charliediesel1739
2 күн бұрын
Yup! I bet if they paid taxes on his sales, he would have never got in trouble!
@ThroughtheLookingGlass-yg2fj
Күн бұрын
Money is the only god and Jerome Powell is its prophet
@NoPe-304
Күн бұрын
When has it been about anything else huh
Untied Corporations of America 🇺🇲🫡
@darknase
5 күн бұрын
War is a Racket - Major General Smedley D. Butler “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” “To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.” True where and whatever the war is, internal or external.
@seanstephenson7081
4 күн бұрын
Every village town city county and state in this country is either incorporated or a corporation.. you can look it up the tax information is public information.. city of whatever LLC the county of whatever Incorporated..
@dead2802
12 сағат бұрын
@@seanstephenson7081 think you know Exactly what 'Corporate Entities' we mean!
This country is sucking right now
@StreetPpl
4 күн бұрын
Now?
@TLAS
3 күн бұрын
@@StreetPplYeah, now…
@OnewingedAngel69
2 күн бұрын
@@TLAS This country has been on a massive downturn since Bush dude
@paul9156c
2 күн бұрын
@@OnewingedAngel69 Nixon started this war.
@user-fc8iw6pc1w
Күн бұрын
Always has, it just has to affect you directly for you to care about it.. smh
Just another day at the pork barrel.
Thanks for your content
Thanks so much for sharing this story. Your channel is so important
we need to just scrap the whole justice system and all of law enforcement at this point
@gunvideorichmond7550
4 күн бұрын
Until someone wants your stuff right? Then what are you going to do
@TPMCAC
3 күн бұрын
The only people who wants my stuff is the government
@Austin-pp4pk
3 күн бұрын
So you’re an anarchist??
@timmollers5786
2 күн бұрын
I've been robbed and not even had an officer show up to take a report. I got threatened with a big knife not even two weeks ago by a junkie. Cops never showed up. Police are useless 9 out of 10 times.
@Woodburnworks
2 күн бұрын
@@Austin-pp4pk if you think someone not wanting a tyrannical government is an anarchist sure
My guess they stole his weed & to sell it themselves.
@horrido666
5 күн бұрын
He only had a few grams. He had 8 immature plants, which I have pretty much at any given moment. He is facing ten years. I live in a free state.
@Youllbealright8759
3 күн бұрын
@@horrido666beat me to it
@donttreadonrick9981
12 сағат бұрын
Oh lord, yes, we gotta beat that competition!
It's ridiculous that he would receive 10 years for a few plants while a corporation makes billions. That's an excessive punishment and should be unconstitutional.
@NotDeadYETTTT
3 күн бұрын
Welcome to the United POLICE States of America!
I bet those jackboots are proud of themselves!
Awesome reporting! End the war on drugs and go back to constitution!
There are many more way bigger fish to fry and they go after this dude just chillin in his camper not hurting anyone....Wow.....
@jacobmiller6031
4 күн бұрын
Exactly, and sadly this type of bs has become the norm these days!
@MikeSmith-nu9wt
3 күн бұрын
Quickly go donate a million dollars to both party's , and they will let you walk ..
@FirstLast-gm7gh
3 күн бұрын
This is ridiculous
@10Wk3y84R
Күн бұрын
Especially in west Virginia where the locals are dropping like flies from fentanyl, the cops go and harass...a guy with trees? Curious
America is there to Help Israel and Corporate Greed does not matter who you vote for .
@pkingperk6628
5 күн бұрын
There are people who actually care about Americans. But unfortunately we have convinced ourselves that you can only vote Democrat or Republican.
@Katie18483
5 күн бұрын
@@pkingperk6628there really are not. Anyone who can get elected doesn’t care. Anyone who does care can never get elected. Such is American “democracy” where we only get to vote for candidates chosen for us by corporations
@donrane
5 күн бұрын
Please vote Biden though this time. Thx. Sincerely rest of the world.
@KingRickIs444
5 күн бұрын
@@donraneTbh I’m neither a democrat or republican. I’m 24 years old and I never voted in my life, but as a working man my life was much easier during trump. This is why I don’t care who says what they are going to do, however I do care about actions and under trump my life was so much better. My question is why vote for someone who makes it harder to be more financially stable?
@wisdomsleuth77777
5 күн бұрын
@@KingRickIs444please understand as a much older conservative that Mr T actually wants to put the death penalty for drug dealers he has said those words out of his mouth while Biden actually reduced the scheduling from 1:00 to 3:00 that's actually in our best interests. He is not the one that is on the side of the billionaires that is Mr T giving those corporations tax cuts and that is how this starts it is not trickle down anymore it is trickle into their jet fuel and their Golf Resorts. The country has recovered better than any other country at 4% unemployment 50 million new jobs and businesses being brought back which helps keep people from resorting to hard drugs to begin with because they have opportunities available to them. If you don't vote this time for Biden Trump is promising to basically run up our debt by giving out billionaire tax cuts deregulating and taking the EPA down to its knees because that's how corporations make money at our expense please do not think otherwise because he is literally said nothing but Pro Corporation Pro billionaire and has literally given no platform or plan that he is planning on doing for the not so privileged people of this country there's a lot more of us and we are the ones that have to pay that debt it might seem like it's not a big deal to vote for someone who can give a good pep rally but it's more than a fire and brimstone speech that puts us against each other. If you want your voice heard by someone who tells you they want America to be stronger together you've got more of a shot than trying to yell into the wind at a billionaire on his Golf Resort. If you took out the personalities and ask yourself what is important to you and ask yourself if the party of Lincoln is okay with neo-nazis carrying Chinese tiki torches chanting Jews will not replace us driving through a crowd of people and killing someone over a Confederate statue is something that is a reality of History it's not the Confederates lost the war and that was not the party of Lincoln we are not Nazis supporters and neither were Jews or Nazis at our civil war. The reason why this election is so important is because those of us who are older do you know what's at stake especially those who are conservative who have seen their party change and the level of hate that they have brought with it has never been like this before Fox News never used to be so divisive and filled with lies in misdirection I watched them change. I also don't sugarcoat stuff I see what's right and what's wrong and in black and white on paper there's a lot of us that don't even realize we have more things in common with Democrats then we do with the GOP especially this day and age. But affordable housing Child Care Health Care your Social Security and Medicare being saved for your future that you pay into that is your money or if you're far enough away from it you're not concerned it's your parents or grandparents ability to get through their old age. And if you listen to him tell you he's going to finish deregulating and take the EPA out and if you watch the Supreme Court take out the Good Neighbor policy that prevents down when pollution that's what's at stake. Please just give it some thought but this time around if you want to have a wide open selection of any type of candidate if you vote blue and they can have both the House and Senate and actually get things done then more of our little people problems can be addressed like decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level and a whole bunch of other things because we will have a seat at the table if we don't there won't be a seat at the table we're headed towards the handmaid's Tale on steroids. Sounds good until it's reality. But this case here is virtually a case of authoritarian overreach and hypocrisy while they stand behind their Christian nationalists hyper fundamentalist takedown of the little person.
Bit of overkill there!
Corporation do not like competition or people that are not dependent on them for their products
Now ain't this something
The war was never on drugs. It was on poor people
@dead2802
12 сағат бұрын
working/middle class/inner city residents!
Welcome to America
@horrido666
5 күн бұрын
On some parts if it, my friend. Move to a free state as soon as you get the chance.
Thank u Taya and Stephen your both so amazing
Okay so in my state recreational marijuana is completely legal and sold at licensed stores. If a regular person tries to sell weed before the legalization it would have been a misdemeanor. Now it is considered felony tax evasion.
Double standards!
Show em the pew pews if they want to play wild west games.
Absolutely disgusting.
This is ridiculous! What would be the tax on that? I know this is about money.
That totally sucks
uncle Sam does not like competition kids. do what the gov says not what it does.
@e.k.izzle32
2 күн бұрын
that wasn’t even competition lol. 6 plants is enough to get yourself personally if your a stoner, it will get you at least maybe half the year depending on how much your smoking. but he would have had no more than 1 and a half lbs. they stole dudes stash for the year is what they basically did. you must buy from corporations the gov said 😅
Wow!! The HYPOCRISY!!! Got to love it.
And people complain about capitalism as if we lived in anything close to a free market
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont
2 сағат бұрын
This!!!!!!!!!! Propaganda is a highly effective tool.
Corporations don’t want competition
I think this needs to be brought to the ACLU attention. I think we should all write letters and ask Biden to further decriminalize on a Federal level to prevent this kind of autocratic hypocrisy and it's just a way for the cops to make money off of the people who aren't giving them perks.
Isn't this the epicenter of oxyctin?
Unless I woke up in Russia this morning
That’s bs we need to stop paying taxes
People in West Virginia are very smart. They’ll come to a reasonable conclusion.
One rule for the rich and different rules for everyone else
If they didn't have a warrant, anything they found inside is inadmissible.
I remember this one and 10 years is out of control he deserves zero jail time
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. Hashtag safershirts
@Austin-pp4pk
3 күн бұрын
Maybe but marijuana does more harm than good, it can help some people, but most the time people get hooked on it and it ends up being bad instead of good. I’ve lived in a state that has laws against marijuana and I’ve lived in a state that has laws for marijuana. And in the pro marijuana state there is more drug addicts, homeless, etc.
@JaredAllaway
3 күн бұрын
@@Austin-pp4pk thumbs down
@Austin-pp4pk
3 күн бұрын
@@JaredAllaway my dads done research and he is a doctor with lots of experience and he found that marijuana is more often harmful then good; he did say that it can help some who use it for legitimate purposes and who do not abuse it. But generally it does more harm than good in most people.
@JaredAllaway
3 күн бұрын
@@Austin-pp4pk I guess we'll agree to disagree
The government doesn't like competition.
He needs to sue them
Don't do drugs kids!❤
@janedoe1229
5 күн бұрын
Pot is not illegal if the local government is encouraging a big corporation to come to the state to grow drug by offering big tax cuts. State law has made Pot legal. Corporations, that don't pay taxes have more rights than individuals who pay state and Federal taxes
We’ve lost the war on drugs a long time ago.
Oh yeah they've been getting away with that
The system is bull$hit.
A friend of mine in East Lynn West Virginia sold his entire property and moved his family to North Carolina 20 years ago because of Oppression by the local police
That’s wear Virginia for you
Can't blame Trump for this one....
@johnnesberg5503
3 күн бұрын
Or maybe even cotton, and or the chemicals they needlessly use. "For color"
@painkillerjones6232
3 күн бұрын
@@johnnesberg5503 What?
Take that s*** to trial
Common sense was just flushed down the toilet.
Things are terrible all over North America.
Did they have a warrant,
The FDA is the problem with the legalizing of weed .
Guess he should of read the paper before he rolled it
They don’t care about the weed, he wasn’t paying taxes on it. They want their cut.
I live in West Virginia. And I'll say first-hand West Virginia is a little backwards on things and our politicians and law. Enforcement need to grow up. The state is loosing out big time because of Stubbornness.
@TheElectronicaman
4 күн бұрын
How are they exactly losing out big time ?
Wwwhhhaaaattttt the flip.....this is like the 4th or 5th thing iv heard this week with police acting crazy and its only Tuesday
End the war on all drugs legalize all drugs
All for big pharmacy but not the little guy who can't defend himself
Literally supposed to be a mistomeanor for up to 49 plants...
State is invested in the big grower not the guy trying to save a buck.
That’s what happens when you break the law.
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont
2 сағат бұрын
That’s what you get when laws do not apply to big business.
And we all know why because the government not getting a piece of the pie💯% Truth🤝
Weed just needs to be legalized. Hate that it gets denied every year in WV.
They're losing out on taxes. They could have been spending on the road. Money for seniors money for veterans money for schools
Was it on federal property then he's screwed
It’s Time!!! 😡
Horrible.
No one thinks the war on drugs is over
What a joke.
That is so fucked up.
Did he have the proper tax stamp😂
The rich need to be held accountable as well as the police. Until we the people unite, there will always be injustices like this one and more.
I want Trump back in office so effn badly… all this sht ends with someone who takes the approach he did. Jesus Always. America First. Freedom🇺🇸. Law & Order !!!
Sounds about right.
Biden's America
That's wild my boss in Fayette county got caught with 25 lbs and only did 1 year.
There is no cop accountability
The ridiculous range in misjustice here is incredible. Some murderers get five years, some non violent drug offenders get thirty years. And sometimes theres a reason for that but usually its the system just manipulating itself for its own benifit. This place is so great in some ways but just the worst in others. And they dont want it fixed.
My marijuana use, is evidence of my Christianity. God states twice on the first page of our authorized King James bibles that marijuana is good and meant for us. Under," every green herb". Also Genesis ch.3 v.18 ; Proverbs ch.15 v.17 ; Psalms ch.104 v.14 ; Romans ch.14 v.2 ; Hebrews ch.6 v.14 ; Isaiah ch.66 v.14. The World Has Been Lied To. Marijuana is the best choice to save our planet. With all its valuable uses.
Ridiculous
It is called the definition of being a hypocrite and there soo stupid for doing that
Laws for rich & laws for the poor
The ppl need to take back our government. We have the right to rule ourselves not corporate greed.
That the bad thing about making it legal is these big company are gonna make all the money
It’s not really a war on drugs. It’s a war on normal people waged by the greedy and the worthless who for now have all the power and no heart or spirit at all.
Thats what makez this the greatest place on earth, right?
they fine him to pay a billionaire to grow in a massive state subsidized operation.
It's because it isn't federal legal
It’s not over it’s just strictly controlled.
You said it. Taxes. Hes not paying taxes on it they want it
They using color of law enforcement
You did miss the gun charge. It's still a felony to have firearms and Marijuana
God bless Cody!!
Not the fault of the police. They're just enforcing laws implemented by politicians.
We have let this happen it been getting worse for the last 400 years or so are we ever going to fight back
Sad it’s supposed to be legal now
Thats why they call it MERICA !
War against the poor.
It's not right...but it also wasn't a surprise.