Of course you don't, especially if you've never been wrongfully accused of something.

What about the 17 year old black kid seen in a predominantly white neighborhood, who's driving a car that every member in his financially strapped household drives and shares. He gets followed by an officer for a few miles, who finally pulls the kid over for not using his turn signal "at least 100 feet before the intersection." (He used his signal, but not until he got really close to the turn.) The officer "smells marijuana," gets the kid out of the car, and then scrapes up some tiny stems/seeds/tiny bits of marijuana from the floorboard. The officer puts this contraband into a baggie (which turns up less than 1/4 gram, which is maybe enough make about 1/4 of a crappy joint. And that kid and his family don't have the financial resources to fight it or hire a lawyer, so they show up to court and take whatever plea agreement the prosecutor gives them. Because, let's face it, what else are they going to do? It's the cop's word against the boy.

You're okay with that? So long as it isn't you or one of your family members, right?

And, yes, that's a true story.

It is hard for some it seems.

The question is, why is it even a law?

Boo hoo. The system didn’t let that kid down, his family did…that is, if he actually didn’t contribute to the pot trash in the car. You don’t t know me or my family.

Financially strapped household but has enough money to buy weed.

308PC, are you a defense attorney?

So once again, why is it even a law?

The system did exactly what it is intended to do: get convictions.

But why does the system care about [censored] that doesn’t matter?


I’ll make it easy for the smooth-brains around here: money.

Yep.

Hell yeah. Lock them fiscally irresponsible folks up!!!! We can’t have that kinda irresponsibility in our society.


It’s way better for us tax paying citizens to cover the cost of jail so we can make sure them weed snorters learn their lesson!!!

Regarding the whole "it's so much stronger now" argument:

Where is it written that one must smoke as much of it as one did back in the day? Vodka is stronger than beer but I doubt very many of you are slamming down six-packs of 12-0z cans of the stuff.

There is also a big difference between a 4 oz bag of dirtweed that is 25% seeds and stems and maybe some gravel and a lizard all squashed together by a brick making machine vs 4 ounces of high quality seedless trimmed and dried buds.

The law treats it all the same though, so might as well have less weight in your possession if you can get high the same number of times off of it. Any potential penalty is less. So, in a way, the law has made weed stronger.

No, I just have a brain.

I think the jury is still out on that…

I think your signature line should read “Brainwashed by Nancy.”

Oh, my bad. “Brainwashed by Nancy Reagan.”

Maybe your mother should have listened… never mind.

Another negative consideration. Employment

When a candidate for employment interviews at a large company; and an interest occurs, a decision to go further involves a background check. There will generally be several qualified candidates. Prior to an offer being made, professional references are contacted. A look at LinkedIn tells who the candidate knows and who they are. Quite often somebody will know one of the candidates contacts that were not given as a reference. Human Resources Dept. contacts several of the people who the person is linked to. These would not be the references the candidate gave. They know how to ask the questions that interest them.

As a retired Headhunter; I guarantee that I can find out more than you want me to. All I really need is your name, DOB and address.

Your rights to privacy? Forget about it.

I’m not being judgmental. Hell, I was in jail multiple times prior to being able to vote. Too much beer and an attitude problem or 3.

Good job at dodging the original question.

So, once again, why do we even have laws against it in the first place?

Dope heads usually say really stupid things as if it somehow justifies their decisions. Usually in complete denial about how stupid what they are saying and doing is. Being around the wrong crowd is how most get started on that mess. Every dope head the police take off the street is one less dirtbag that every parent has to worry about influencing some naive teenager to take the first step down that path. A self perpetuating cycle that is probably the same way the dirtbag’s habit got started… yeah, I’m against legalization. Becoming a dope head is not what anybody in their right mind dreams about for the future of their kids or this nation.

The best part about this thread is that the biggest dope head I ever knew, and not just weed, is now a cop🤣🤣


And that is 100% true, don't let the laughing faces fool you

We see it all the time when we go into homes as a firefighter, our arson investigators were told to basically look the other way. I’ve never seen an officer on scene do anything about weed.

I would like to know how old that story is. I work in an extremely conservative city and this is not happening regularly if at all.

I wonder what the percentages are concerning that non-functional, derelict alcoholics vs. the non-functional, derelict potheads. We can't continue to make it easier for non-contributors to exist without consequence.

Sounds like a Kamala political ad story.

I was told that in the beautiful city of Dallas you’ll see a lot more white dudes in the more non white parts of town probably getting pulled over in their search of the heroin. Not the other way around as this story states