Comments for Strasser: The most lethal drug at http://www.lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.lakeconews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 04:32:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3332 I know a guy who doesn't smoke pot, but he still eats chicarones after having a quintuple bypass. I guess if he smoked pot, he would consume even more chicharones! - dogwalker Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:32:52 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3319 I should have used qotation marks in my comment, the original writer said "a few of the supervisors had launched an attack" I just pointed out that 2/3 of the voters did too. I would point out though the state allows more than the board allows. so I guess that is somewhat of an attack on state law. - gramps Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:53:48 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3301 Lake County is not now or ever been a laughing stock of any part of California! What it has been, over the years, is a place where the lower socioeconomic levels of our population could find rents low enough to be able to afford! This means that along with those that just chose to be here for the reasons of clean air, good rural lifestyles and less of the "City Lifestyles" there have come those who can't do for themselves for numerous reasons. Those on SSI at young ages due to injuries suffered in the pursuit of employment, those who did not plan well and believed that Social Security retirement would suffice them and found that it did not! Those who were born into situations where they were wards of the State and then turned out onto the streets by Governor Reagan...etc, etc. Lake County has always been a place where you could make a good living at your chosen field, if you worked hard enough and paid attention to the changing trends. Our largest employers, The County, Safeway, Mendo Mill,etc. offer good paying jobs with good benefits. The self employed can make a good living and afford their families a good life if they are honest, customer oriented and look at the economy around them and learn to adjust to the ever changing economic cues in our State and County. I find that the right thinking citizens at time are too self involved in their own day to day and do not pay enough attention to the County, and then an election comes around and shows me that they are paying attention and can come up with the right decisions! They just need to be motivated. All in all this is a wonderful County to live in and those that wish to do it harm need to understand that they will not succeed here and need to move back to Humbolt or other such Counties where the population does not care as much about what affects their daily lives. - cloaks95423 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:29:16 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3299 Lake County is STILL the laughing stock of Northern California; everyone needs dopers on their block and some SENILE citizen offshoots of the Obama administration, but oh no....the LIBERAL supervisor candidates running in the last election were both rejected, maybe some people DO care about jobs in lake county.... - MOUNTAIN MILITIA Sun, 24 Jun 2012 05:56:31 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3295 @gramps. The BOS haven't launched any attacks. They had already created guidelines regulating marijuana before the election. They were forced to void them by the supporters of initiative D, which was soundly defeated. And now the same BOS have the mandate of the majority of voters to try to create new laws regulating normal use of marijuana and prevent unregulated and illegal growth. Those guidelines will have to consider Federal and State laws. If you consider that an attack then so be it. - Marzocco Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:21:08 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3288 A few of the supervisors and about 2/3 of the voters have launched an attack on marijuana. - gramps Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:12:52 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3280 What ISN'T a drug? What IS a drug? Seems to me that a drug is anything which has any effect on body, mind, spirit. So, isn't food of just about any sort a drug? Does anyone know of a friend or acquaintance who, under stress, dashes to a store to load up a shopping cart with what practically everyone has heard called 'empty calories,' 'fun food,' and so on? Is the snack food area of any store even necessary? Do people really need potato chips, candy, pastry, pasta, etc.? Who in any group of people NEEDS alcohol? Leaving behind alcohol and junk disguised as food, what about "Hey there's a sale going on at Bring Bucks Clothing Store, I'm going, anyone want to go along?" Ever see what happens to a female (writing carefully here so as to not appear to be sexist...) who has found a pair of shoes that change her height and, at the same time, her attitude which may become one of "Look at me. I may appear to be six feet tall, these shoes make me feel attractive or powerful, I'll put up with aching feet, legs, back and so on for a while. Of course the minute I get home the new shoes are taken off...but didn't I look good while I had them on?" Okay. So some foods, any alcohol, some items of clothing may be drugs. On to non-food, non-alcoholic, non-wearable things. What about hoarding old newspapers? Obviously the hoarder feels better or at least different in some fashion due to hoarding, or that person would not be doing that. So stacks of unnecessary - and sometimes hazardous - items could be called drugs. Recycle the ____ newspapers! A reader here might be patting himself/herself on the back right about now: Well I don't over-eat or over-drink or stash away anything from yo yos to 40 year old bundles of newspapers so I'm okay and those people who DO any of those things are definitely not okay. So all "drug users," considering the newer definition of "drugs" out there could check themselves and their motives. But they won't. - ca215 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:40:19 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3277 were all done during an era when people ate very differently than we did-lots of red meat and butter and fatty foods at every meal. Get over it. Drugs are the problem. Autopsies are the problem. Gangs are the problem. Antiquated finidings that cause panic are the problem. Say something real, like DUI's kill young people, gangs kill young people, or shut up. - Just Sayin Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:08:09 +0100 http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25619:strasser-the-most-lethal-drug&catid=38:letters&Itemid=358#comment-3272 This is a joke, isn't it? I have a question for you. You can live without marijuana but can you live without food? What's next? Water? Air? - Marzocco Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:59:38 +0100