Comments on: MMA fighter Leonard Garcia Arrested For Alleged Drug Trafficking

By: whitey

whitey — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:32:55 +0000

sito, he went for the easy, illegal way to make money… but not the “dishonest” way. This nations drug laws are freaking stupid as hell, and people who break them are not “dishonest”. The people who write the drug laws are the dishonest ones.
There is nothing dishonest about selling drugs. The liquor store and the beer mart sell drugs all the time (alcohol is a drug). That drug (especially in the hard liquor form) kills people all the time from liver disease, car accidents, and even overdose. Cocaine is no different.
I don’t do coke or drink liquor b/c both are very addictive and dangerous. However, I do smoke pot now and again, and it is ridiculous that I could go to jail for doing it. Pot is impossible to overdose on (not one recorded death by overdose… even in lab animals!), and is a lot less addictive then alcohol. Yet it is illegal. I can drink myself to death never breaking a law, but if I bake some weed into my brownies because it is a safer drug… they’ll send me off to prison to get raped.
Don’t think all people who break the laws are dishonest. Sometimes, it is the laws that are dishonest.

By: sito

sito — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:39:49 +0000

is it too bad that some athletes don’t make enough money to hire a good lawyer? or is it the fact that he went for the easy and dishonest way to make some money?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:47:01 +0000

yea what is the big deal?????????????? what he should have done was deal alchol and send people out driving from his bar after he just took their money and gave them a more dangerous drug then coke!!! let them go out and drive home instead of us condeming garcia why arent we havin this conversation about bar owners poisening our society, wrecking familys and killing more than half a million people a year!!!!!! i think something like 15k people died from second alchol use last year.

By: Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:44:18 +0000

What’s the big deal man?

By: cocaine

cocaine — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:40:31 +0000

This kid is mine now see. That’s the way it is see. He couldn’t hire some guys at home depo and buy some equipment to start a roofing company on the side or something. Who said don’t judge him for making money on the side, lol, just a lil cocaine sales because he doesn’t get paid enough. Wow what if he was a hitman on the side?

By: whitey

whitey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:53:51 +0000

I don’t think drug laws were made to jail other races, but that is the effect they have. The prohibition of alcohol in the 30’s made the price of booze skyrocket and resulted in a lot of crime, especially among the poor. People couldn’t afford their alcohol and would steal and what not to get their alcohol money. It also resulted in criminal gangs getting rich because the selling booze at the inflated price gave them tons of easy money. So also our modern drug prohibition has resulted in *extremely* high drug prices, has enriched criminal gangs who otherwise would not be very rich at all, and has resulted in a lot of crime amongst the poor for drug money. The drug laws don’t target those races as much as they target the poor… it just happens that many of the poor are ethnic minorities.

By: KOB

KOB — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:22:10 +0000

Hey Mike, that is a pretty stupid statement. I believe that drugs should be legalized, but they aren’t. Can’t Garcia find any other job besides selling drugs? He wanted to take an illegal shortcut to make some money, now he will pay the price. Don’t bring race into it.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:27:04 +0000

whitey you seem to be the only one to leave a post that i have seen on this site that makes any sense. what is with you guys? you have your head u your a**?????????? i for one am NOT a RACIST who suports drug laws. although i have never used a recreational drug in my life {including coffee} i will NEVER support any law whos basic foundation and reason for creation was to jail any one who was not white

By: mike

mike — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:13:28 +0000

too bad leonard garcia got into some trouble for tryin to suppulment his low fighting income to have a better life i hope he is not out of mma for long he is def a promising up and commer stay strong bro

By: whitey

whitey — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:31:13 +0000

kamakazi963, read up on your history. The most lawless time in this country (when the criminal gangs were more powerful then the cops) was during prohibition when booze was illegal. The reason is because the price of booze sky-rocketed and all the criminals got rich off of selling it. Drugs don’t cause crime… making drugs illegal causes crime. The reason is that the the drug prices sky rocket, and then people have to turn to crime (stealing, violence, etc.) in order to get the drugs.