eyeball Posted February 9, 2009 Author Report Posted February 9, 2009 Agreed PT. I grew up in a rural Ontario town, and it seemed to me as though the cops in that town did nothing but run around looking for kids with joints to bust. It got so bad they started locking down the high school and bringing in drug dogs to find all the students who had pot...the funny bit was the profiling that went on (they went direct to the shop classes and whatnot because they knew that's where the weed would be) -- if they were smart they would have hit the Advanced level classes where half the kids had speed and meth (you know, those fine upstanding members of the school community who did amazingly well on tests etc. because they would spend the night before an exam hopped up on amphetamines, studying till the wee hours). There were far worse drug issues in that town than the pot trade, but the police were more than willing to look the other way because of the demographic selling and using the high-end stuff. Ridiculous, really. The worst drug issue I saw in our small town was a different sort of two-tiered injustice that revolved around race and tobacco when my kids were in high school. This combination was the mother of all gateways. At high school the kids would separate into two groups when they took their smoke breaks. The native kids we're not harrassed for smoking by the cops or the teachers so they smoked on school property under a shelter. The non-native kids on the other hand we're harrassed on the school grounds by the teachers so they'd stand in the street and take their chances with the cops. The cops to their credit seemed to understand prosecuting a war on smoking against these kids would be like rubbing salt in a wound and seemed to leave them alone. The reason for the hands-off approach towards native kids was an attempt to address their high drop-out rate. I guess the reasoning was that dropping out was the greater evil and this harm reduction-like approach is what was used. Whatever message the powers that be or parents and cops thought kids were getting the most remarkable thing occured, the native kids started joining their peers in the street. I took it as one of the most encouraging signs of humanity and solidarity in the face of injustice I've ever witnessed. When I think about how much fighting used to occur between native and non-native kids when I was my kids age...I'm absolutely amazed at how quickly kids mature these days. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
bush_cheney2004 Posted February 9, 2009 Report Posted February 9, 2009 Tommy Chong (Cheech and Chong) got nine months in prison for selling bongs over the internet. Not drugs, just bongs. Apparently it cost 12 million dollars to track him, arrest him, and keep him incarcerated. Yep....Tommy Chong was a much bigger idiot than Phelps....that's why they call it "dope". Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
eyeball Posted February 9, 2009 Author Report Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) Tommy Chong (Cheech and Chong) got nine months in prison for selling bongs over the internet. Not drugs, just bongs. Apparently it cost 12 million dollars to track him, arrest him, and keep him incarcerated. This is why so many regard the US as being little better and maybe even worse than a paranoid dictatorship, given it should know better by now. Uncle Sam is the real shmuck here. Edited February 9, 2009 by eyeball Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
bush_cheney2004 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Posted February 10, 2009 This is why so many regard the US as being little better and maybe even worse than a paranoid dictatorship, given it should know better by now.Uncle Sam is the real shmuck here. Just following Canada's lead.....by banning the evil weed before the US Feds. So who is the schmuck? Dopers still crack me up...just "Up In Smoke" Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
eyeball Posted February 10, 2009 Author Report Posted February 10, 2009 Just following Canada's lead.....by banning the evil weed before the US Feds.So who is the schmuck? There's no shortage of shmucks alright. It at least looks like we're trying a little harder to get out from under a really dumb idea than your country. Dopers still crack me up...just "Up In Smoke" I don't know, if you've seen one stoner film you've seen them all. Kind of like shmucks I guess. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
bush_cheney2004 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Posted February 10, 2009 There's no shortage of shmucks alright. It at least looks like we're trying a little harder to get out from under a really dumb idea than your country. Looks can be deceiving....many US states are de-schmucking faster than Canada. I don't know, if you've seen one stoner film you've seen them all. Kind of like shmucks I guess. Some are much better than others.....at least when it comes to depicting such self absorbed drug abuse contests. Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
OddSox Posted February 11, 2009 Report Posted February 11, 2009 (edited) Looks can be deceiving....many US states are de-schmucking faster than Canada. Apparently South Carolina is not one of them! http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/11/2488493.htm South Carolina police have made eight arrests in connection with the party that led to publication of a photograph of Beijing Olympic hero Michael Phelps, US television station WIS has reported. Edited February 11, 2009 by OddSox Quote
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