In Georgia, eat Spaghetti-O's get felony meth charges

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Someone with equip and certifications could make some money helping prove tests wrong.   Some of the customers have a lot of cash too


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[MicroBalrog]

Why is possession of a drug for personal use a felony anyway?

[Scout26]

To be fair to Georgia, in NY all you have to do to get arrested on meth charges is buy some Jolly Ranchers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/city-settles-men-arrested-nypd-cops-confused-jolly-ranchers-crystal-meth-article-1.1927186

Getting back to this.

It's odd that:
1) Cops get their narcotics training from TV shows.

2) Jolly Ranchers test positive for a "controlled substance"?

[KD5NRH]

Why is possession of a drug for personal use a felony anyway?

Exactly; no victimless crime should ever carry a stiffer penalty than one would get from any unprovoked attack on another, (or the other's property) but punch someone in the nose or steal their stuff, and you're not likely to face as high of a penalty as if you'd been caught with a personal use quantity of almost any drug. (Assuming no permanent disfiguring injury, or large value theft.)

[brimic]

Why is possession of a drug for personal use a felony anyway?

Because it makes government more powerful and gives a reason for it to grow more powerful.

[MicroBalrog]

And makes it impossible for people who might oppose the War on Drugs to vote?

[Tallpine]

Why is possession of a drug for personal use a felony anyway?

What's the matter - did some cop take away your Spaghetti-O's when you were a teenager ?

 

[brimic]

And makes it impossible for people who might oppose the War on Drugs to vote?

We are long past the point of where voting is going to fix anything.

[Balog]

We are long past the point of where voting is going to fix anything.

Any form of democratic government is essentially doomed from the start.

[MicroBalrog]

Any form of democratic government is essentially doomed from the start.

So is life, and yet you do your best effort to keep on living.

[Balog]

So is life, and yet you do your best effort to keep on living.

Only true if you view dying as defeat.

[HankB]

Why is possession of a drug for personal use a felony anyway?

Probably because they haven't figured out a way to tax something you can grow in your own back yard, or under a bank of lights in your basement.

[Balog]

Probably because they haven't figured out a way to tax something you can grow in your own back yard, or under a bank of lights in your basement.

Actually, like so many laws, it was started because of moral panic over the evil black men getting with white women. Just like most gun control laws. NFA 34 is an obvious exception, that was purely to keep the revenuers busy after the repeal of Prohibition.

[Strings]

It was also started to keep the value of a paper baron's forestry holding up (the whole hemp issue), and stepped up to target hippies