... that these pigs don't even know much of anything about the substances they are locking kids up for years for smoking ruining their lives.

They might as well have moaned that this could have led them to commit rape and kill to get more of that demon weed and leave them with a lifelong addiction.

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Too funny for words. Still, these out-of-control Burger King cooks need to learn that provoking the animals is somewhat less than brilliant. They're lucky the pigs didn't come back at them with guns blazing.

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Regardless of what you or I may think of cannabis, it is entirely inappropriate (and, I suspect, criminal...) behavior for a restaurant worker to spike food with substances neither requested nor under any circumstances expected. Even under the best of foreseeable circumstances, cannabis would be considered a controlled substance... and certainly is not likely to appear on restaurant platters.

Do these officers not have the right to request and expect clean food, as they ordered it, free from substances that they consider dangerous? Do you not expect the same kind of service? What if you were allergic to nuts? Would you consider this so funny if they spiked the burgers with peanut oil?

How about semen? From people with clean sexual histories, it's pretty much safe. How would that have been any different?

Don't be IDIOTS!

YES, pot should be legalized!

But that does not excuse this offense, nor would it ever excuse such an offense.

Get a fucking grip! We're talking about food service here... not about the real or imagined dangers of cannabis. These officers have every right to be absolutely incensed. And you people should be, too!

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nah, the worst that could have happened was that the cops might have been NICER to people that night...

the idea that they could have hurt someone just goes to show how pervasive the erroneous idea that cannabis makes users violent is...once the officers knew they were high, they should have taken themselves off duty, gone home, had a snack and gone to bed...for a GOOD night's sleep. duh.

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Should have put LSD in their burgers. I'm talking an INSANELY large dosage here. Then the pigs, I mean cops, would be forced by the acid to turn inward and see what terrible assholes they are. Nah, that would be mean.

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What a waste of good dope! I bet the doughnut shop was especially busy that night!

But, yes, of course those cops deserve to not have their food messed with. Shame on those Burger chefs. But, still not a jailable offense, maybe community service. They could work in the mess hall down at the barracks.

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as safe as pot is it should never be givin to such unstable people as we all have heard it agravates skitzos .these people [police ] are way to dangerous already.although it more than likley mellowed them out we would not like that now would we

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that those kids should have been locked up and thrown away the key. Who knows what those police might have done while high on pot. Why they might have picked up some innocent black man brought him back to the station house and shoved a broom handle up his ass.

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Those of you that think this was a harmless "prank" fail to see how this could have gone horribly wrong. Suppose the cops didn't realize what had happened? Most cops get random piss tests. This could have destroyed two families. Not to mention if the officers were sent on a dangerous call while high. The fact that some of you have referred to them as "pigs" shows me how ignorant some of you are.

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but it's killer weed!!! they could have gotten addicted or killed someone.

gimme an f'in break.

hard to believe those cops didn't taste/feel the weed in those burgers, since they've said it was alot. they probably only went after the kids after they got caught in a piss test perhaps. maybe they're regular smokers looking to avert attention - many cops are big drug users, though i think they prefer harder drugs as a rule.

and jeez, this happened in '06. and how 'bout a link?

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...pigs will eat anything.

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In my days of getting high, I NEVER got a good high from eating pot as in brownies, etc.
I got a high from smoking it.
And, I ate and smoked a LOT of pot.

If there was enough pot in a burger to get one of these cops high, the burger would have been dry and full of twigs, etc.

I smell bullshit.

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My understanding is that it's incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to get high from eating "raw"/uncooked pot. Something to do w/ THC's fat solubility as I recall. Any way, I doubt the police were affected in any manner whatsoever (othe than being "outraged") by the ingestion of whatever miniscule amount they might've consumed.

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The cops told a Whopper: "There was a lot of marijuana on the hamburgers," he said. Any idiot would recognize pot replacing lettuce on their burger and not eat it. These cops never ate the pot. They are just deceiving US like they always do. It is "God's Green Herb" if you read Genesis that God gave man on two of the six days of creation plus to Noah after the Flood. No wonder they are so afraid of it.
IM
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Up In Smoke. Beware when the lords return in a "bow in a cloud."

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but feeding other people anything, particularly a mind altering drug, without their consent or knowledge is a serious matter, regardless of whether the likelihood of direct harm is significant.

and yes, it was dangerous--the cops have guns, they drive, they have real responsibilities, and a great deal of stress. i, for one, have never tried pot, and i don't know if i would be able to tell what was screwing with my perception, judgement and motor skills if i were drugged w/o my knowledge. (i don't know whether this case involved an effective dose, but let's agree that we don't have enough information to judge that and consider the case based on the findings of the court.) lots of people here are suggesting that the worst that could happen is that they became nicer people. what, no one has ever had a bout of paranoia triggered by pot? and the physiological effects of this or any drug are highly dependent on context: if you don't know what's happening, then there's really no telling what the effects would be.

the original article is infantile and ignorant--it is completely reasonable for a person, 'even' a cop, to feel violated and injured by having been secretly dosed, regardless of whether the cops involved might enjoy recreational drug use by their own choice. personally, i would want the consequences of someone feeding me a psychoactive substance without my knowledge to be significant. all the more so if they give it to somebody around me who happens to be driving a car and carrying a few guns.

posts like this make me hesitate to recommend alternet or contribute money to them. seriously. not because of anything related to drugs, but because of the dishonesty and faulty logic in the post itself.

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lace their burgers with cyanide, so we don't have to hear their pissing + moaning.

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I wish they had!
Both got high and could have hurt themselves or someone else that night, he said.
Instead of just some one else, as usual?
What a bunch of self righteous idiots.
No sense of humor... what can you expect from people like that?

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...would avoid so many of these problems. Just as I feel the government has no right to dictate to me what I choose to take into my body, I don't have the right to trick or force anyone else to ingest something they prefer not to. They may have specific religious beliefs that prohibit the use of drugs or they may simply have a personal problem with taking drugs.

This stupid prank is just the sort of tidbit anti-drug assholes crave. We'll never make a case for the government or anyone else respecting our rights if we don't show the same courtesy to others. The fact that the victims were cops, however, doesn't make any difference to me one way or the other.

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So, we spend a fair bit of time expressing our concern over the rights of women to have control over their own bodies... how is this so different?

If someone gets a dose of Rohypnol and is NOT hauled off and raped, is s/he not still assaulted?

If we can't properly align our mores to perceive this with proper contempt, then we don't deserve to be heard.

Maybe *some* police officers have done wrong to some of you... and maybe you're not mature enough to parse the fallout from such unfortunate encounter(s)... but, really, that does not justify disregarding their civil rights. Cops are people. They have families. They have rights as common citizens.

Let's suppose the victims had been children. What then? No big deal? Really big deal? What if it's someone who wanted never to have anything to do with such a substance? How can you simply write off the fact that someone else simply took that decision away from him/her?

I would really like to see pot legalized. But this sort of behavior can not be condoned... and should not be written off as inconsequential. Don't compromise your principles on your way to achieving your goals in life. It's a deal that will damage your "soul". (I put soul in quotation marks because I'm an atheist... for anyone not keeping track.)


Now... all of that aside, I think one person may have pegged this correctly... if the cops knew there was "a lot of pot"... it's apparent they must have noticed it. I wouldn't think there could be room for "a lot of pot" on a burger. How much is "a lot of pot"? Honestly, I have no idea.

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There's not enought info in the story to know whether this was a potentially dangerous situation or not. Whether the cops were exaggerating about there being "a lot of pot" in the burgers is an important question. How much is "a lot" and, morte to the point, if they became aware of something in the burgers, did they finish eating them? I'm sure there was enough left for a lab sample. But how stoned were these men?

The kids were dumb asses for doing what they did -- but I bet they're getting high-5's all over town for the prank. My worry about them is not that they put pot in a couple of Whoppers. It's about what other gross things they may have put in other Whoppers before they got busted. That's just one of the reasons I do not eat at Burger King or any other fast food restaurant.

As for the sentencing, it may have been appropriate, but dammit, I'd be as angry as the 2 cops if it had happened to me and the little wheezers who pulled the prank got off with a slap on the wrist.

Still, it will make for a funny sequence of scenes in the next Super Trooper. It could be as funny as the scene in Flirting with Disaster where the hardcore FBI guy got blitzed on LSD.

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Burger King . . . Why on earth would you eat there when you have Dunken donuts. America your in trouble, you been conned.

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a lot of the anger against police could come from incidents like the following:

Wheelchair Dumping Gets Police Suspended
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 13, 2008; 1:18 AM
TAMPA, Fla. -- Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authorities said Tuesday.
Orient Road Jail surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows veteran deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation.
Sterner said when he was taken into a booking room and told to stand up, Jones grew agitated when he told her that he could not.
"She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," he told The Tampa Tribune. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."
Jones has been suspended without pay, and Sgt. Gary Hinson, 51, Cpl. Steven Dickey, 45 and Cpl. Decondra Williams, 36 have also been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

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pretty well reigned in. We had gotten rid of the crooked cops from prohibition. The crooked drug era had not started. We had 25 years of FDR and Harry trying to clean things up.

Now we have had 30 years of republicans trying to use the police to create fear. That fear will eventualy backfire. The police have been given too much power. The money from drugs is too tempting.

The police intentionally let crack houses alone so that they can amass enough profit so that when they are raided there will be so much money that there will be plenty to pocket. Sixth graders have a harder time buying whiskey than they do drugs. Why is that? Isn't it time that the honest people spoke loud enough to be heard?

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