logic would also tell you that if i WAS a dealer i sure wouldnt go on a website blasting to everyone that i smoke pot. i have in my possession at any given time less than 7 grams of weed. i buy 7 and smoke that in 2 weeks and go back for more. if i was a dealer, federal offense, i am smart enough to keep my mouth shut about it and not draw attention to myself AT ALL. come bust me coppers. the time and money you would waste on arresting me in MY HOUSE and what you would find...or lack of what you would find would only help my platform. no dillnewbie i am not a dealer. but i am most certainly a daily medical marijuana user...who IS currently enjoying the holiday;)

bill. i understand your grocery store scenario. i have no doubt of your partial blindness so im not surprised that you missed where i actually stated in my last post that the money MAY HAVE COME FROM SELLING POT. my point was that marijuana has as much to do with this guy selling heroin as the case of beer in his fridge did. how do i know so much about drug dealing?? how do you know so much about the bible?? did you write it?? i also know a lot about the brewers but ive never suited up for them. i am lucky now and have a solid source for my pot(GOOD pot;), and i know it comes from a pot friendly country just north of us;). but in the past...because of uncle sams ignorant hypocritical laws ive been forced to find my pot thru your stereotypical drug dealers(not pharmacists or bar owners:) even tho id have preferred to pay sales tax on it and get it from a reputable source . i know we dont agree on the current laws...but trust me billnewbie...the chances of this cat having just unloaded a lot of pot are slim. my guess is this guy is a heroin dealer. he may sell some amounts of pot...but probably more just smokes for himself and makes a killing off the herion trade, a killing that is untaxed;)

dun, dun, dun, another one bites the dust. One less loser to deal with.

Kid, I know you're so fanatical about this that it affects your reasoning so I'll explain. When a store shelf is nearly empty, the cash register is full. The dealer had only 6 grams of marijuana, a pocket full of cash and about 175 "hits" of heroin. Does that make any sense now?
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If you know so much more about dealing drugs than I, are you admitting that you deal drugs, Kid? How else would you acquire this knowledge? I only know what I've read, but if you have a valid claim to even more knowledge, that usually only comes by experience. So are you a dealer?

see now you talk senseless. your assumption also bolsters what you want to believe. undestand this billnewbie 6 GRAMS IS NO WHERE NEAR NETTING $2000 IN CASH. its less than a quarter ounce. you think he just happened to sell $2000 worth of pot before the cops busted him?? the amount he had isnt even a felony...but your assumptions are correct?? that $2000 could also have been from a tax refund or his heroin dealing or YES it could have been from him dealing marijuana. that doesnt mean heroin and marijuana belong in the same category. ill trust your assumptions when its in reference to the bible...but really billnewbie...do you think you know about the drug dealing world better than i??

why do you think mexico is having thousands of people murdered becuase of the drug cartels but we have no more problems with al capone??

The difference between your assumptions and mine in this case are that your assumptions bolster what you want to believe. I have no such self-serving interests, other than the welfare of my fellow humans, even yours, Kid. And, as I said, this dealer had $2000 on his person which may well have been the revenue from his marijuana sales. Wake up and smell the roses, these dealers are dangerous and people like you enable and enrich them. You need to give up your weed until it's legal and stop supporting these dealers and the gangs they represent and the crimes they commit for you by proxy.

dillnewbie you know so much but all you are doing is ASSUMING he was a marijuana dealer. if hes a dealer of pot...why would he be in possession of ONLY 6 grams. thats like a bar having a case of beer on a saturday nite. you said he used the marijuana to get his friends hooked on heroin. my guess is this 'gangsta' had a fridge full of 40's that he and the homeys drank and then tried the heroin. my ASSumtion is really just as possible as yours. im not sayin this guy didnt deal pot. i have absolutely no idea. what i can say is that this is a classic example of 21st century 'reefer madness'. this is a CLASSIC example of one of the BS things about pot being illegal. just because its illegal to possess its written in the article. the blind will read this article...as evidenced by the posts...and assume the worst about marijuana. or think that marijuana is in the same freakin category as heroin. and thats not the case. id bet money this cat had more alcohol in his house than pot...yet we hear NOTHING cuz its LEGAL for any chimp over 21 to possess that man made poison.

and uhhhh 6 grams isnt worth 30 bux?? you have no idea what good pot is;)

He's probably sad he wasn't caught in Rock County - he most likely would have been given community service as a sentence here. The Rock County DA's office would have pled this out like they do everything else.

One definition of three for consumption - The act of consuming, as by use, decay or destruction."

That describes drug addiction quite aptly.

Some have been known to eat it, such as in baked goods like brownies, but consumption includes smoking as well.

"Was the marijuana strictly for his own consumption?"
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Are we eating pot now vs. smoking it??

We "know" a few things from the article. We "know" Mr. McIntyre is considered a "dangerous drug dealer"(not just a dangerous heroin dealer) and the search of his place produced 2 drugs, heroin and marijuana. Was the marijuana strictly for his own consumption? Perhaps. But could it also have been for sale just as his heroin was? Probably. Just because he had only a “small” amount of marijuana doesn’t mean much as he also was found to have $2000 in his possession, possibly the revenue from his marijuana sales which he apparently was nearly sold out of. Pretending that this “dangerous drug dealer” only deals heroin is a fantasy just as is blaming the government for the murderous activities of these criminals. Our drug law disregarding citizens who self-righteously proclaim that their favorite drug is harmless and that therefore the law may be ignored are the ones who are at least partially responsible for the actions of these dangerous criminals.

Well to set the record straight he was dealing Heroin not marijuana. And why the the comments about marijuana being better then heroin, that makes no sense. And maybe people shouldn't believe everything they read and make stupid comments on things they don't know.

billnewbie,

I've heard it before. Marijuana is the peaceful drug. Possessing and using it is a victimless crime. yatta yatta.

Perhaps if you grow your own. Lots of lives are lost in it's distribution. There is all out war over it in Mexico. Gangs, drug cartels.

Al qaeda is largely funded by the manufacturing and distribution of opiates. Isn't that an interesting thought. Heroin users are funding terrorists.

My Janesville high school student says all of the people doing heroin now were the ones getting high at lunch in middle school and their freshman year in high school. I wouldn't have agreed with billnewbie a year ago but after the conversation with my child right now I believe he is right on.

On the other hand Kid, Mr. McIntyre wasn't picked up for possession of untaxed alcohol nor was he charged with distributing alcohol without a license, even as inducements to buy heroin. But he was dealing in both marijuana and heroin, evidence that he thinks the 2 are related. Maybe your kids will someday see the hypocrisy in dealing with drug dealers who don't much care what you put in your body, don't care if it kills you or ruins your life and will kill anyone they think is a threat to their business. Kids have great vision when it comes to seeing through our self-serving rationalizations.

if pot is a gateway drug and you deny that alcohol or nicotine are also gateways...again...that are LEGAL...and oh actually kill people then...well i got nothin cuz my kids could probably understand that hypocrisy.

dillnewbie: just when i think you couldnt be any dumber...you go an say something like that and TOTALLY redeem yourself...

it really is mind blowing to see what people who you went to school with end up like especially when they show up in the papers in articles like this. Amazing. Well I can honestly say this is one bust that the cops needed to get done asap especially since this guy had guns and planned on using them if he had to per the article and girlfriends statement.

I wonder if those who comment in favor of marijuana and keep telling us that it's ridiculous to think that marijuana is a "gateway drug" noticed that Mr. McIntyre also had marijuana in his possession as well in this bust. Since heroin is a much more lucrative business than marijuana, why would a heroin dealer bother to deal in marijuana? Can we safely assume that Mr. McIntyre may have kept marijuana as a way to increase his customer base for heroin? And if he had killed anyone with his guns, could only the heroin customers share in the blame or would his marijuana customers also bear some culpability?
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If some people want marijuana or any other recreational drug legalized, they can petition their government for a change in the law, but until then they must stop enabling and enriching dangerous criminals like Mr. McIntyre by obeying the law.

Heroin, heroin, everywhere. Even among folks you wouldn't think would ever touch the stuff. We have a series of articles on the topic that begins in Sunday's paper. --Gazette reporter Frank Schultz

Another bust for the good guys!