....does anybody want to talk about what Kim Ogg did?

I see it as sort of problematic. We have a teen in our neighborhood that is a drug dealer. The entire neighborhood has been calling the cops on this little ass for well over a year now. We've had HOA go to the Sheriff's office. All we get is a bunch of BS. The number of different cars driven by teens I've seen parking at that house is freaking staggering. I don't see how this is going to deal with that besides give them the green light to continue with the government's blessing. There are more consequences to the law than what responsible, recreational pot smoking adults want to do in their own homes on the weekend.

 

I'm right there with you, man.

I love Kim Ogg. I'm serious.

 

Needs to go further but I guess we have to crawl before we can walk. Bravo DA Ogg!

 

How do you know he's a drug dealer? When I was younger I had all sort of people go in and out of my house, hell my parents were gone 2/3's of the year and I basically left my front door unlocked the entire time. I wasn't selling drugs, though. Doing drugs? Maybe...but that's a different issue. Just because you see a lot of different cars parked outside someones house all the time doesn't mean that they're a drug dealer. And if the kid is selling weed, so what? Kids smoke pot, it's not a big deal or anything.

 

Had to look this up because you potheads were being vague and I don't live in Houston.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ecriminalize-mar1juana-in-Harris-10935947.php

It's time to look for better solutions to reducing crime and taxes used for cannabis possession within Texas cities. We've come from 99 years for having two joints, to the 2007 law that cites rather than arrests, to decriminalization in the biggest city.

Statewide medical and decriminalization would fit well in this state but hey we'll get there, albeit slower than most.

 

Worked like a charm in Vancouver.

 

I'm all for decriminalizing mar1juana. It's less deadly than cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Plus, there are actual legitimate medical use for it. There is little downside - if anything, use portion of the revenue (once legalize) to educate about the use and side effects.

 

LOL, I can hear it now. "You're going to do what with my taxes!?!"

 

Green light indeed!

Hey bud, let's party! /Jeff Spicoli

 

If he is selling pot and they legalize it he will be out of business... problem solved.

 

It's perfectly obvious.

 

It's nice to have a DA who cares about things beyond conviction rates. Targeting mar1juana users and dealers is an easy way to run up the score on your conviction percentages but in the larger scheme, its a fairly ineffective and inefficient use of resources when it comes to improving overall public safety. You have to focus your resources on the people that are causing the biggest problems, not the people that are the easiest ones to prosecute.

Combine that with a sheriff that is prioritizing reforming jail and prisoner management processes and you're seeing some very promising changes to the justice system in Harris County.

 

Dan Patrick isn't a fan.

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/...poses-Ogg-s-mar1juana-rule-other-10937974.php

 

BUT SMALL GOVERNMENT

 

Sounds like good policy, but it doesn't affect me at all. Much like the immigration thing, the Texas Governor is the biggest threat to good policing policy we face.

 

It does. Less of your tax $ wasted on these "crimes"

 

So they can waste it on something else instead.

 

That is a very insensitive response, considering CometsWin has to suffer through watching teenagers come and go from his drug dealing neighbor's house.