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'The Kush' Under Fire in Illinois

The land of Abraham Lincoln is an ironic hotbed of racism, which goes a long way to explaining why you can get 25 years in jail there for pot. These de facto life sentences for marijuana are actually too lenient, says Illinois’ Republican representative Mark Kirk.

Illinois likes to drink till 4 a.m., smoke cigars in their hospitals, and gorge on cheeseburgers, but your ass is grass if you smoke marijuana. Kirk wants marijuana purveyors to spend up to 35 years in jail if they’re fucking with the good shit, according to his new bill HR 2828, the High-Potency Marijuana Sentencing Enhancement Act.

“… Kush and other high-potency marijuana strains are so worrying,” Kirk says. “Local law enforcement reports that Kush users are ‘zombie-like’ because of extreme THC levels.”

Don’t know what’s funnier. This white bread honky:

saying the word “Kush” over and over again, or that the City of Chicago is going the opposite way and turning weed possession into a ticket to boost revenue/save jail space.

[Drug War Chronicle]

[Huffington Post]

UPDATE: Snoop Dogg just called us. He says Kirk’s license to use the word ‘kush’ has been revoked. “Kirk can, however, refer to high-potency cannabis as ‘Milf Weed’, the ‘sticky icky’ or ‘Sam from Quantum Leap’,” says Dogg.