Go, Willie!

[hex1848]

Apparently he got lucky it was in Louisiana:

http://www.la-legal.com/marijuana.htm

Unlike most states, the amount of marijuana in possession, as long as it is less than sixty pounds, does not matter

Here in Florida, that’s a felony with intent to distribute charge.

The amount of money and resources spent on keeping marijuana illegal is ridiculous. Someone needs to sack up and get these laws changed. And I don’t buy the gateway drug bullshit. You could say the same about caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol.

[cigar no baka]

I'm with you, Hex. Weed is so prevalent by now that it is as ridiculous as the prohibition of alchohol in the 1920's. You simply can't tell your people not to do something they really want to do unless you want to put them all in jail.

[Empire23]

Here in California, more than an once and they can get you for being a drug dealer, even though your not selling it.

[hex1848]

This link popped up in a thread over at Metafilter about this:

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/015767.html

Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 18 million Americans. Nevertheless, some 94 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of a substance that poses no greater - and arguably far fewer - health risks than alcohol or tobacco.

Its hard to disagree.

I know this issue is off topic for this site, but it's something that has been on my mind for quite some time. I'm not sure what can be done to change these laws, but imprisoning non violent drug users does nothing to help society (unless you count the $$ going to lawyers and law enforcement).

I know I would much rather have my tax money going to preventing things like 9/11 then keeping the next door neighbors 19 year old son in jail for 6 months for having a couple onces of weed on him at a traffic stop.

[WOXOF]

Forget about the weed(damn random drug tests) I'll take the shrooms.

[Shelby07]

...they found a pound and a half of marijuana on willie's tour bus... Willie's cutting back.


...they found mushrooms on the bus. Willie's really worried about this. He's afraid he's going to have to spend the rest of 1969 in jail.

[cls515]

I wrote Willie a letter one time. Cool thing about was he wrote me back.

[SuperChuck]

I know this issue is off topic for this site, but it's something that has been on my mind for quite some time. I'm not sure what can be done to change these laws, but imprisoning non violent drug users does nothing to help society (unless you count the $$ going to lawyers and law enforcement).

In a similar vein, I've become annoyed with every state creeping its legal blood alcohol level lower and lower and lower. I'm much less concerned about the guy that had 2 drinks on his way home from work... I'm concerned about the guy driving down the wrong side of the sidewalk.

It seems we're so obsessed with "getting tough on ____" that we fail to apply logic...

[WhiteWidow]

He should have told them it was just for the Bio-Diesel on his bus.

[basil]

In a similar vein, I've become annoyed with every state creeping its legal blood alcohol level lower and lower and lower. I'm much less concerned about the guy that had 2 drinks on his way home from work... I'm concerned about the guy driving down the wrong side of the sidewalk.

It seems we're so obsessed with "getting tough on ____" that we fail to apply logic...

Dude, logic holds that the difference between 2 drinks (the universal answer to any policeman's inquiry) and driving down either side of the sidewalk DOES NOT EXIST WITHOUT THOSE FIRST TWO DRINKS HAVING BEEN CONSUMED FIRST. Hopefully, they'll creep the BAC all the way down to Zero Tolerance. Right now, people drinking and driving are wiping out more lives than all the other drivers under the influence of all the other drugs combined. Rarely, if ever, is anyone stopped and cited for DUI/DWI after 2 drinks (unless s/he is a minor, for whom zero tolerance laws do exist. In Texas, anything detectable [even the smell] may warrant a DUI, which is a class C misdemeanor. At the officer's discretion, they may demand sobriety tests, and cite for DWI, the more serious offense). It just does not happen. Those who say it has happened to them are lying/in denial.

He should have told them it was just for the Bio-Diesel on his bus.

Good one.