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wake up people... : 11/12/2009

Stop future murders, save lives, legalize it so they don't have to kill to keep their secret and fix the california budget mess with the taxes. People really have no clue how many individuals; elderly, youth, your neighbor(s), co-workers, fire fighters and yes, even police officers who smoke/use "illegal" substances. Grow up and make it happen already. Just because it will be legal doesn't mean anyone is going to hold a gun to anyone's head to use or not use. It's called freedom of choice, and maybe just maybe parents could stop blaming law makers and teach their kids some actual values & morals... but that's just too much damn effort for all of you lazy, irresponsible baby makers isn't it? Shake your head all you want, but at least be real enough to see my point, or you can wait until someone that you love is murdered because some pot grower doesn't want his/her secret crop revealed.

just my 2 cents

Political Correctness Kills : 11/12/2009

Chances are the body is in a mass grave in Mexico with all of the other Cartel victims. Can we enforce the borders yet? Can we get out of denial that Santa Barbara is a sanctuary city and county that is costing lives because of political correctness and the fear of offending anyone?

Why woulld they respect our laws... : 11/12/2009

when Politically Correct schmucks wont even allow law enforcement to enforce them? Oh but they are just here to work. And pigs fly out of my butt.

Legalization : 11/12/2009

This is hardly an argument for legalization of pot, it is an argument for enforcing the illegal residence of illegals.

Media Coverup : 11/12/2009

Noozhawk reports "During the traffic stops, five Mexican national suspects were taken into custody " Why does the Sound not divulge the immigration status? We need facts, not politically correct coverups.

: 11/12/2009

The Daily Sound does politically correct cover-up? Gimme a break.

Latino Discrimination : 11/12/2009

So it is legal for American growers to sell marijuana at clinics for patients but not for Latinos to engage in the same activity? You are targeting Mexicans for the American drug user problem, if Americans did not buy marijuana they would not grow it. At the same time that every city and town in California is limiting or prohibiting new clinics and distribution channels for marijuana you are allowing ONLY white Americans the right to sell pot legally to patients? The price would be much much lower if Mexicans were allowed to sell it, this is organized crime and racism against Latinos.

Mexico Man

Sounds like the Prohibition era in the 1920's : 11/12/2009

That old saying "history repeats" is so true. The Mafia did the same thing during the Prohibition era, running a very violent trade and making profits most people could only dream of. And for the guys complaining about illegals, the Mafia (la Cosa Nostra) has its roots in Italy. So no, the argument is not about illegals and national origin, but about how best to effectively get to the root cause of the violence.

That Narrows It Down... : 11/13/2009

"Cardenas is described as 5-foot-6, 165 pounds. He may be driving a late-model maroon Ford or Chevy pickup truck."

Doh!

Mexican criminals : 11/13/2009

Enforce our borders and deport these scumbags... So much for political correctness! How about an INS office on the corner of San Andreas and Carrillo?

Latino Discrimination : 11/13/2009

This is not Latino discrimination. They are arrested because they are doing it illegally. There are legal ways to grow and sell pot . It just so happens that "white" people know how to do so. Why don't you stop crying about racism and learn to do things the right way, or stay in Mexico. There's a reason that "white" people get to do it, WE voted for it. Mexicans don't vote, remember?

That guy

Yeah! : 11/13/2009

Good job! I bet money that since these guys were busted all other illegal marijuana growers will stop what they're doing instantly. Good to hear they didn't start that fire though. But I don't want to hear anyone say "they wouldn't have to start a fire if it were legal to grow marijuana" because that's just silly.

Sing it with me: "Let's Go, War On Drugs! Let's Go!"

THANK YOU : 11/13/2009

Enough said....

'THE GRAVEN'

Major Mexican Problem : 11/14/2009

First it was Santa Maria, now the marijuana fields of SB's mountains and foothills run by illegals aliens. Why not just shoot them at the marijuana site? And f... political correctness and all the dumbasses that adhere to it.

Butt Head

Mexicans : 11/15/2009

Get the bad ones out and the parents of gang bangers. The American people are sick of this crap and sick of all the apologist latinos. Either you are against the bad ones or for them. Unfortunately so many have family who are in hgangs or con el aspecto cholo, they would be disowning part of their family so now they protect the bad ones. Haz patria, mata a un cholo! I'm a real new generation Mexican professional, not a dying breed but a very rare one here in the US and I'm a lic. in Mexico.

Lic. en derecho

MJ : 11/16/2009

if they were not growing weed here, they would be doing other illegal activity. the cartels and La Eme are running a very large business here in the US. they are taking major advantage of our poor border policy. if we would do more at the borders, a lot of this crime would be resolved. our law enforcement and ICE could focus on the worse drug coming from mexico, Meth. 75% of the meth in the US is manufactured in mexico. scary numbers. more than half of that is being distributed by blacks and whites in our High School halls. the cartels and eme roots go very deep. we need to shore up our borders and put an end to this craziness.
Jason Marquez

KJEEsucks

Trojan No Need To Use The F word : 11/19/2009

Be mature in your writing. I know you're passionate about
the subject but also be grateful that the Daily Sound is letting
the community post here without being moderated. It would
suck if the Sound took away that privilege because people start
cursing on here. I have learned alot here from some really good
non staff writers here. STOP CURSING!!!

Respect The Sound

There are laws for good reasons... : 11/19/2009

There are illegal ways and there are legal ways to do things. Illegal is bad, legal is better... Anglos do it, blacks do it Asians do it and Latinos do it. People make their choices whether to obey laws or not. Our overcrowded prisons have people of every race, color and creed. (Well, ok disproportionally more of certain demographics) However, while maybe 10% of the population of the great USA has been incarcerated at one time or another (by the way, that's a lot, That's more than any other industrialised police state/nation...) anyway, 90% either choose to do things the lagal way, or at least have not been caught yet.
State Excise Alcohol taxes (after proibition was repealed) are quite lucrative (in the 100's of millions of $ annually in Calif). I'm sure Marijuana once fully legalized and taxed, could increase California's coffers (NORML estimates California Marijuana tax revenue would be close to a billion $ a year in California) while at the same time cutting back on the states drug prosecution case costs.
I like to go hiking in our beautiful Los Padres Natl Forest lands, without being shot at by illegal growers of any nationality, or drunk stupid hunters for that matter (actually, I really don't care much for being shot at by anyone...). Oh well, seems to me California and a few other states are alreaady Latino/Hispanic majorities. Join the crowds I guess... I think I'll just change my surname to a common Hispanic one and get a Medical Marijuana card so I can grow some myself (non-profit of course), and try to keep it legal.

Builder777

Stopping the drug wars : 11/19/2009

I suggest that the best way to take a big bite out of crime is to make growing or using of marijuana NOT A CRIME. Simple. For those unconvinced please read Orange County Judge Jim Gray's book: "Why Your Drug Laws Have Failed and What You Can Do About It." (www.judgejimgray.com) In the 2007 documentary American Drugs, Judge Gray talks about the drug wars "creating the felonization of America"--noting that a disproportionate amount of blacks and other minorities suffer the "rap" when the fact is more white people are involved with drug dealing.
I also suggest those who would oppose legalization of cannabis (marijuana) that they study the following web sites: www.stopthedrugwar.org and www.drugwarfacts.org
It is also good to remember that it costs far more to incarcerate than to educate--for example, though much our countries infrastucture breaking down, there are far too few qualified tradesmen to fix it--thus, we need to establish more trade schools and less prisons. Speaking of prisons, did you know that the United States imprisons more of its citizens than any country in the world? The fact is it is #1 on the list of countries with the highest prison populations-almost double that of the next highest country (China) and over 2 1/2 times the third highest county (Russia), yet 50% of alll inmates in America are non-violent drug offenders. The problem lies in those who are addicted not to marijuana or other drugs, but in those who are addicted to drug war funding...e.g. law enforcement, the court system, prison builders, etc.
The fact is, the more laws we have the more offenders we have...and sadly, America seems to specialize in too may (and bad) laws --and unevenly enforced. Laws against a relaatively benign drug is one of the worst laws, costing our citizens far too much in terms of both dollars and life.
We need to become informed, intelligent, and practical when it comes to obsolete laws that only serve to perpetuate crime, not eliminate it. Educate yourself first and then speak up.

Wendy L. Kaysing

Legalization is Stupid : 11/28/2009

You will be empowering the drug cartels to use the same strategy the medical marijuana movement used to legalize methamphetamine and cocaine. THAT IS 100% ACCURATE DRUG USING LOSERS.

Johnny Law