Posted on 08/14/2007 6:50:18 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt
LOL!
It's true that this story doesn't go into any detail as to *exactly* what evidence of drug trafficking they had/have.But you've gotta admit that carrying around 58 Vicodin tablets is a pretty good start...particularly if you're a physician (as your screen name suggests).
You don’t put people in prison for what you presume to be their INTENTIONS...
Beg to differ - examine laws regarding conspiracy.
> Engineers and doctors are ALWAYS rejected immediately.
No kidding. I have been called twice and filled out two forms (including occupation — engineer) prior to the first day. I was never even called for questioning.
One person doesn’t do a conspiracy. Aside from that, when two or more people do a conspiracy, they usually get put in prison AFTER they do whatever they were conspiring to do or at least after they’d held some sort of a meeting and laid out plans to do it. What you’re talking about in this case is basically putting somebody in prison for thought crime.
>A hundred years ago there were no drug laws in America and no meaningful drug problems.<
I see you don’t know about how cocaine became illegal. Yes, it used to be in Coca Cola. Do your own research for the rest of the story.
It should, but it doesn't. Folks are ever willing to give up somebody else's liberty to make themselves feel a little safer, not understanding that they're giving up their own liberties too.
I'm not planning on retiring in this country, btw.
In a sense, the answer is yes. Through the jury selection process, those prospective jurors who have fully functional brains are removed from the jury pool before the trial starts.
I you answer questions intelligently and competently, that is likely to get you tossed, even if you don't have a marked profession.
When you fill a prescription, the bottle might contain 100 pills. AFAIK, it’s a felony to repackage controlled medications into other containers, e.g. a ziploc baggie; doing so separates the medication from the prescription information, which is (only) on the original packaging. So, (1) what you’re suggesting is a criminal act (AFAIK) and (2) you still are tossing the presumption of innocence, which turns American criminal law on its head. You might also want to think about the repercussions of (2) if it were expanded.
If he was told to take,say,two tablets every four hours by the doctor who gave them to him then you'd expect him to be carrying six...or eight...or even ten with him for a long workday,not fifty eight.
Do you split your prescriptions into multiple bottles? I've never done that. "Fifty eight" is not an unusually large number of pain pills.
Statists have used the War on Crime/War on Drugs to sucker conservatives into supporting expanded government power for three decades. It has worked so well that many conservatives still do not realize how thoroughly they have been duped - and they get extremely defensive when it is pointed out to them.
Meaningful drug problems to me start with the idea of a drug user having to steal $4000 worth of merchandise to get (at a 10% fence) the $400 necessary to buy $4 worth of chemicals, i.e. they start with four dollars worth of chemicals being transmogrified into four thousand dollars worth of crime times the number of those idiots out there times 365 days in a year, all through the magic of stupid laws. THAT problem did not exist a hundred years ago.
I had my wisdom teeth taken out and my dentist prescribed me Vicodin. It was in a word, wonderful. I had some left and it made me feel better when I had a hangover. I wasn’t in chronic pain and would not have gotten addicted (all drugs are addictive). However, if someone had some extra that they wanted to sell, I would’ve gladly bought it, to take away the effects of the last legal drug, alcohol...I probably would be in jail for ten years if I got caught trying to cure a hangover. Think about it, or don’t. Who cares...You and your kind will always be here...
Do a bit of research about some of the drugs our Indians have used such as mescaline from the peyote and jimson weed. It is legal to buy Salvia divinorum plants and leaves anywhere in the world except Australia. The Salvia divinorum leaves are smoked or chewed in a quiet dark room, and hallucinations are said to last 10 to 15 minutes, with mild after-effects lasting between 30 minutes and an hour. If you are so inclined to use them, have a good time but don’t expect that I will pay for your rescue to bring you back into today. Don’t ask for my sympathy when you have an unexpected recurrences "flashbacks" that result in your becoming unable to maintain your employment.
I'm in disbelief that they could find 12 people that are that stupid.
I have nothing to do with drugs and recommend that all and sundry do likewise. Nonetheless between the drug freaks and the control freaks who run the drug war, I view the later as the larger problem. 80 Percent of American crime would evaporate within two years of instituting a rational set of drug laws.
It’s illegal to repackage ANY prescription drug.
I was in trouble for carrying some prescription pills in a baggie while camping.
It’s a felony, or so I was told, to take a prescription medicine out of its original container and put it into another, because the original has the prescription info, which is your authorization to have the stuff.
My original scrip was for a 90 day supply and I had a 7 day supply in the bag.
Cop said, next time go back to the pharmacy and get a smaller bottle withe the correct label, which it turns out they do all the time.
Such a simple thing and I never knew it was a felony!
So in this case, the fact that he HAD a valid scrip was not that relevant, if I read it right he had a bunch of narcotic tabs in some container other than the one he had the scrip for.
The verdict shows the root of the problem- people vote for politicians who promise to get tough on drugs, and the verdict shows that attitude.
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