Posted on 02/10/2003 7:49:25 AM PST by rs79bm
Benjamin Curtis, the 22-year old actor who portrays the Dell Guy in those bothersome computer commercials, was arrested late last night (2/9) on a marijuana possession charge, The Smoking Gun has learned. According to cops, Curtis was holding a "small bag of marijuana" when he was popped on Manhattan's Lower East Side (at Ludlow and Rivington for you Gothamites). Curtis is currently being held in Central Booking and is scheduled to be arraigned later today in Manhattan Criminal Court. Curtis, who lives in lower Manhattan, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Bonnie Shumofsky, the actor's agent, said she was unaware of her client's bust when contacted this morning by TSG. (1 page)
And he ends it all by being caught with a bag of oregano...make that grass..or whatever. Bad bad boy. Carrying around a bag of dead weeds. You are a threat to society.
Well, another squeaky-clean media icon turns out to have feet of clay. Oh, well. At least we still have Snoop Dogg...
That Urban Myth again?
"National prohibition took effect at midnight, January 16, 1920, one year after ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment. BUT, the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of August 1917 banned the production of distilled spirits for the duration of the war. The War Prohibition Act of November 1918 forbade the manufacture and sale of all intoxicating beverages of more than 2.75 percent alcohol content, beer and wine as well as hard liquor, until demobilization was completed."
The Prohibition Amendment was enacted because Temperance forces saw it as less susceptible to repeal than legislation.
"An amendment to the Constitution obviously appealed to temperance reformers more than a federal statute banning liquor. A simple congressional majority could adopt a statute but, with the shift of a relatively few votes, could likewise topple one. Drys feared that an ordinary law would be in constant danger of being overturned owing to pressure from liquor industry interests or the growing population of liquor-using immigrants. A constitutional amendment, on the other hand, though more difficult to achieve, would be impervious to change. Their reform would not only have been adopted, the Anti-Saloon League reasoned, but would be protected from future human weakness and backsliding."Repealing National Prohibition by David Kyvig, Copyright 1979 by the University of Chicago
I'll bet you are a Libertarian.
I can tell because they just want to sit around and smoke dope.
I never knew who she was, but apparently, she has quite a following based on a google search...
Oh come on, thats for smoking tobacco or storing jelly beans.
Aaaaw... The soft-on-crime, it-isn't-their-fault, society's-to-blame left has chimed in. Life? He should be SHOT!
HE'S A MENACE TO SOCIETY!
HE SHOULD BE PUT UP AGAINST A WALL!!
...cuz drugs are dangerous. Drugs kill.
No doubt conducting research for his "character"......:)
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