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To: dusttoyou; Notary Sojac; al_again2010
Dusty - Notary - al_again -

I'll put together some exact citations for you over Xmas weekend.

In the meantime, perhaps some common sense and personal experience may help.

Within the last ten years I've attended HempFests in Seattle and Oregon and a SmokeIn at the University of Colorado.

Local police wandered openly among the crowds, and did nothing.

Also, can you name any well known person who went to jail for user amounts of marijuana?

Of course not.

Can you name one of your neighbors or classmates who went to jail for user amounts?

Of course not.

Oh, and if you do think of any, two can play the citation game - send me the names and court venues so I can look up the trial transcripts and see what other crimes they committed.

Have you seen any Cop reality shows that feature sting operations against people for user amounts?

Of course not.

In fact, I've seen Cop shows where they make people dump their baggies on the street or in the toilet.

Bottom line - the whole “Libertarian Outrage” thing over marijuana is based on political emotion, not fact.

By the way, I smoked weed almost every day from 1970 to 1990, and I loved every hit.

Why did I quit?

I grew up.

Took a while, but I did grow up.

81 posted on 12/23/2010 10:21:21 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
If you are correct, then we could remove the legal penalties for possession of "personal use quantities" without changing much of what happens in real life.

In that case we should do it.

There should not be laws which are enforced based upon the personal discretion of the police.

Neither should we give prosecutors the option to use victimless crimes as a "handle" to arrest people when they suspect a more serious crimes but don't have the evidence (which appears to be the case in this Montana bust).

We'd be better off to bust everybody with a single bud on their possession and clog up the courts with those cases (including all the doctors', lawyers', city officials', and cops' kids). It would force awareness of the real implications of the law.

84 posted on 12/24/2010 6:51:24 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Imagine the parade to celebrate victory in the WoT. What security measures would we need??)
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To: zeestephen

What happened top the question “Anything to verify its fact not just your imagination”?

Guessing proof is in the pudding.

Merry Christmas!


85 posted on 12/24/2010 6:57:47 AM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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