Exactly. It’s why I’ve long come to the conclusion that all laws against mere possession must be stricken off the books.
With felonies like murder, etc it also helps to have motive, eyewitnesses, other forms of trace evidence, perhaps a criminal record to indicate you might be a good suspect...
I’d also add that the entire approach of a Prohibition mindset and militarizing police has come to mean more cavalier approaches to framing up innocent men, whether out of pure evil or a belief that the suspect is ultimately guilty of whatever.
Police can gun down a very old lady in Atlanta and THEN PLANT DRUGS to protect themselves because of the drug war. It’s us against them, in their mind and increasingly in ours. It’s the Drug War that has dogs sniffing around public schools and where kids are lined up against halls while cops have guns drawn and running an Iraq-style roundup(but with less humanity and professionalism than our troops)
Only her age saved that old lady’s public character, if a 30 year old man is shot down by crooked or mistaken cops, his reputation will be smeared after his death because all it takes is to drop a baggie of weed somewhere and he becomes Al Capone in the public’s mind.
Yes, but I think heroin, and other drugs of that caliber, should always be illegal. That it is such a persecuted substance must keep people from trying it, even if it also causes a lot of crime. In the end, I feel that when something is that destructive and poisonous, mere possession of it should be a big deal for the deterrant effect.