ElBictors

August 20th, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^

Any truth to the rumor that the arresting officer is a Boilermaker??

 

You'd think any loyal SB cop otherwise would have made one phone call, and one call only to a Mr B Kelly's private line

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superstringer

August 20th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^

OR....

Humor me here. A drug was put on the list of worst-drugs-ever even though studies were incomplete because the Govt assumed they would revisit the scientific studies, but never did. This drug has overall about the same effeft in a human as drinking amd smoking. That the fed govt in early 70s made this drug a priority bc the leaders of the Govt had it in flr the hippie culture (who didnt vote for them). This drug has been a major cause of a huge percentage of black males ending up in the criminal justice system. That the social cost of criminalizing this plant--police and judicial and enforcement costs, not to mention the human and economic costs of crime, gangs, and prsion that the enfocement and illegality of this drug have wreaked -- is staggering. And that none of this seems to have eorked because consumption of the drug remains "high" even when illegal.

So people who do not partake in this plant look at this history and current sutuation and MIGHT think, criminalizing this drug hasnt been worth the cost, given the nature of the drug and the staggering costs.

I am not saying it has to be decriminalized. But there is this other side of the issue and its pretty persuasive, including to some very politically conservative minds--not just stoners.

But you're right, this is only about trying to give into some entitled stoner. Suuuure.



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Ecky Pting

August 20th, 2016 at 10:28 AM ^

Were there other passengers in the car? Why do the football players always get singled out? If Brian Kelly has any sense at all, he'll recognize that the troopers who pulled the car over were probably Purdue fans who had it in for ND and these boys are just hard-working student athletes trying to better themselves. Seems to work that way in Louisiana, at least...

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Ty Butterfield

August 20th, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^

If anything this could help Staee. Holy hell I cannot take another season of everything falling into place for those bastards. Last season was the luckiest in the history of football.

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Prince Lover

August 20th, 2016 at 11:41 AM ^

I hope they are as lucky as they need to be for their first seven games. I want them to be undefeated, ranked in the top ten and feeling so Sparty that when they get the beat down of their lives, they'll wish they never felt Sparty at all!!!

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160 IQ

August 20th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^

The prohibition of plants has to be one of the biggest wastes of human resources in human history. I don't even partake but for the love of all things good and holy legalize the plant!!

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GoBluePhil

August 20th, 2016 at 11:36 AM ^

The plant makes life better. You have no clue how a person under the influence of marijuana is any different than being under the influence of alcohol. Only when a reliable roadside test is available to police will it ever be considered. Not bashing legalization. It's just not the time. It has to be controlled and for court purposes you have to be able to prove a level of intoxication. The impact on society from drunk drivers has proven the need for restrictions. Adding marijuana to the mix on the road does nothing to help society.

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ghostofhoke

August 20th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^

Most of us in Colorado would disagree. Even if it's not your thing, it's amazing how little legalization affects your daily life. It has a huge impact on the legal system and the lives of those that would be devastating by convictions for things that don't affect anyone but themselves.



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ElBictors

August 20th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^

By far, the most regrettable aspect of Amendment 64 and why I voted against it (weed was already and has always been for my entire life, for all intents, "legal" here) is the large influx of people moving here only for that reason.  I have seen plenty of evidence of it and amongst and within the younger demographic, there are thousands of people who moved here with no plans beyond getting here and going to the dispensary.

Colorado needs National Legalization NOW!!!!!!

 

lol

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The Mad Hatter

August 20th, 2016 at 12:04 PM ^

Someone driving under the influence of MJ (which is and will remain illegal) is no where near as impaired as someone driving under the influence of alcohol. Literally every single argument for drug prohibition can be applied to alcohol and yet that substance remains legal. I'm a human being, endowed by my creator with certain unalienable rights. Who the hell are you, or anyone else, to tell me what I can or cannot put into my own body?

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Don

August 20th, 2016 at 1:28 PM ^

"Someone driving under the influence of MJ (which is and will remain illegal) is no where near as impaired as someone driving under the influence of alcohol."

If you're referring to being stoned out of your gourd as compared to being stone drunk, I'd agree with you.

If you're equating being stoned out of your gourd with having a beer under your belt, that's ridiculous horseshit.

I know many people who are content with a single beer or two—not sober from a legal standpoint, but far from being significantly intoxicated. Virtually all of the pot smokers I've known since 1970 have no other goal than getting as high as possible every single time they light up.

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TIMMMAAY

August 20th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^

It's perfectly legal to drive after drinking one beer, unless you weigh like sixty pounds. So that's kind of a false argument. If you use the legal impairment standard (which you should for this argument), I think his point stands.

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The Mad Hatter

August 20th, 2016 at 4:09 PM ^

But not unregulated. Produced in a laboratory and subject to stringent quality standards. Make it available to anyone over the age of 21 and make it a felony to provide to minors. There, I just eliminated 50% of the crime in this country and bankrupted all of the drug cartels.

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tspoon

August 20th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^

This could very well help them a lot, as Redfield is one of ND's leading tacklers.  He's a hitter from the S spot.  That will likely matter when Groucho runs LJ Scott between the tackles again and again and again....

 

 

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Great Cornholio

August 20th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^

In 25 years of driving, I've been pulled over exactly once for speeding to that minimal of a degree (although plenty of times for worse infractions). You guessed it: I'm white. Not condoning the kids carrying an unlicensed gun or suggesting that driving while high wasn't stupid, but if this was a car full of white kids I wonder if they would have even gotten pulled over in the first place. Not exactly fair that I get to worry less about being caught when I occasionally make/made stupid decisions. Feel for the kids, from that perspective.

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Vote_Crisler_1937

August 20th, 2016 at 2:08 PM ^

The question is, did he write them up for only 13 over or were they really only going 13 over? My first ever speeding ticket I was written up for 5 over but I was doing more than that.

Perhaps these kids were pulled over for doing 25 over but the cop cut the driver a break on MPH for cooperating on one of these other infractions.

OTOH there is academic research that shows your claim that blacks are stopped more than whites for the same infractions.



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Jackie Moon

August 20th, 2016 at 2:12 PM ^

5 kids crammed in a car.  

Busted taillight.  

Speeding.  

Friday night.

And you are suggesting the main reason why they were pulled over is because they might be black (which, the article doesn't mention and unless you personally know the skin color of the players involved, you are assuming they all are black..and if that is the case...you might want to consider giving back your SJW card)

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Great Cornholio

August 20th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^

Point taken in that my initial response was probably a bit reactionary and reflected some assumptions of my own. That said, I don't think it's unwarranted to look at this case in a broader social justice context. Relating that specifically to a college sports blog, when something like this comes up (which it does regularly) I feel like fans are pretty quick to heap derision on the young athletes who got busted. This, without considering that the system which busted them is weighted heavily against them from the outset. In this particular case, to respond to Jackie Moon's comments, the five athletes in the car were indeed all young black men. The two Indiana state troopers, Ben and Jessie Reason, who made the stop were both white. Fulton County, in which the stop was made, is 95% white with less than 1% of the population being African-American. None of these things necessarily means that the stop was the direct result of intentional racial profiling. I'm also not arguing that the kids shouldn't be held accountable for their violations. What I am saying is that it's perfectly valid to consider whether race might have played a part in this stop occurring in the first place. What these kids did may have been stupid, but they also live in a society which burdens them with a disproportionate likelihood of being pulled over, arrested, expelled. To me, that unlevel playing field is a much bigger problem than a handful of kids running around being stupid. TL;DR: fuck the police.

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