Marijuana penalties

[Bdub]

Since its illegal I would say a fine and confiscation are sufficient.  Really it should be legal.

[GOP = Terrorists]

It should be legal with a sin tax on it.


But if it has to be illegal I'll take a fine of $1 over confiscation because confiscation will always cost more than $1. =)

[nclib]

None, but if there must be a penalty, a fine would be the most appropriate.

[Gabu]

A crime is a crime.

Unless it's not, and in this case, it shouldn't be, in my opinion.

[Storebought]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

[opebo]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

No one cares about your subjective preference, prude. 

[Storebought]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

No one cares about your subjective preference, prude. 

It was my opinion, and I gave it, brain-damaged degenerate

[opebo]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

No one cares about your subjective preference, prude. 

It was my opinion, and I gave it, brain-damaged degenerate

Your opinion is hardly 'yours', worker - it is formed by your working-class experience.  You see drugs as a threat because you come from a poor community, where it is normal for drugs to be taken to emeliorate the miseries of oppression.  Conversely, drugs are used freely by your betters, with no ill effect.  Please, in future, Storebought, try to be more self-aware about the sources of your limited, simpleminded, intolerant, bourgeois morality.

[Storebought]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

No one cares about your subjective preference, prude. 

It was my opinion, and I gave it, brain-damaged degenerate

Your opinion is hardly 'yours', worker - it is formed by your working-class experience.  You see drugs as a threat because you come from a poor community, where it is normal for drugs to be taken to emeliorate the miseries of oppression.  Conversely, drugs are used freely by your betters, with no ill effect.  Please, in future, Storebought, try to be more self-aware about the sources of your limited, simpleminded, intolerant, bourgeois morality.

Not that you are even worth wasting words upon, you hyena, but for the benefit of other people:

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an entire series of articles on the destructiveness that drugs played on profiled Bay Area residents, including, yes, rich people, who suffer as badly, physically, from the aftereffects as any other person. The worst drug of the lot was certainly crystal meth, but even that wasn't taken in isolation to others, including weed and alcohol.

[dazzleman]

A fine of $500 per half ounce, and jail time if more than 10 oz.

That filth has no place among decent people.

No one cares about your subjective preference, prude. 

It was my opinion, and I gave it, brain-damaged degenerate

Your opinion is hardly 'yours', worker - it is formed by your working-class experience.  You see drugs as a threat because you come from a poor community, where it is normal for drugs to be taken to emeliorate the miseries of oppression.  Conversely, drugs are used freely by your betters, with no ill effect.  Please, in future, Storebought, try to be more self-aware about the sources of your limited, simpleminded, intolerant, bourgeois morality.

Not that you are even worth wasting words upon, you hyena, but for the benefit of other people:

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an entire series of articles on the destructiveness that drugs played on profiled Bay Area residents, including, yes, rich people, who suffer as badly, physically, from the aftereffects as any other person. The worst drug of the lot was certainly crystal meth, but even that wasn't taken in isolation to others, including weed and alcohol.

I'm with you, Storebought.  Drugs are highly destructive to both rich and poor people.  Of course, richer people have more of a margin for error, and can afford better treatment, etc., so drug use sometimes doesn't end up affecting them as badly as poor people.  OTOH, it sometimes takes them from rich or comfortable to poor.  Drugs ruin many lives, and I applaud you for saying so.  Many people who think they don't do any damage are highly naive, or in the case of the previous poster, malicious.

[AkSaber]

confiscation, very small fine, it really  should be legal

Since its illegal I would say a fine and confiscation are sufficient.  Really it should be legal.

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[GOP = Terrorists]

That filth has no place among decent people.

I take it you don't drink either?

[dazzleman]

I get embarrassed when I look at what I wrote just yesterday.

I think all drugs should be legalized.  Who are we to judge whether it's wrong to abandon your children, or steal from others to support a drug habit.  Most of the people that do these things are victims, and in any case, they steal mainly from the owning class.  If we had the type of redistribution that we should, there would be no need for them to steal.  So I can't really think that it's wrong.

And as far as parenting goes, there are only subjective ideas of what good parenting is.  The worst kind of family in any case is the highly repressive and sexist nuclear family.  Any alternative is better, so to the extent that drug use degrades the nuclear family, it is positive.

[HardRCafé]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

[© tweed]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

[opebo]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

[© tweed]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

[dazzleman]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

Well, at least they don't have hordes or repressive Christian fundamentalists there, as they have in the Bad Place.

[opebo]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

No, overall Singapore is slightly more free - their oppression of drug-related freedom is about as bad as the US, but they tolerate prostitution.

[Storebought]

I get embarrassed when I look at what I wrote just yesterday.

I think all drugs should be legalized.  Who are we to judge whether it's wrong to abandon your children, or steal from others to support a drug habit.  Most of the people that do these things are victims, and in any case, they steal mainly from the owning class.  If we had the type of redistribution that we should, there would be no need for them to steal.  So I can't really think that it's wrong.

That's not true. Drug addicts steal from among their own cadre of society, mostly other poors.

[© tweed]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

No, overall Singapore is slightly more free - their oppression of drug-related freedom is about as bad as the US, but they tolerate prostitution.

Due to poverty, opebo.  The bad place has a larger owning class than singapore, therefore, more prostitues run the streets of sinapore.  It is harder to control, and even undesirable to do so.

[opebo]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

No, overall Singapore is slightly more free - their oppression of drug-related freedom is about as bad as the US, but they tolerate prostitution.

Due to poverty, opebo.  The bad place has a larger owning class than singapore, therefore, more prostitues run the streets of sinapore.  It is harder to control, and even undesirable to do so.

No, Singapore has a similar standard of living to that of the Bad Place, Tweed.  Certainly nearly every prostitute I encountered there was a foreigner from Indonesia, mainland China, the Philipines, or Thailand, working temporarily, and allowed in for that positive social purpose.

[© tweed]

Assuming marijuana is illegal, what should be the punishment for possessing marijuana?

What they do in Singapore.

Caning?

I think murder.

Ah.  Well, that is an example of a true police state, opebo; the USA is simply police state-lite.

No, overall Singapore is slightly more free - their oppression of drug-related freedom is about as bad as the US, but they tolerate prostitution.

Due to poverty, opebo.  The bad place has a larger owning class than singapore, therefore, more prostitues run the streets of sinapore.  It is harder to control, and even undesirable to do so.

No, Singapore has a similar standard of living to that of the Bad Place, Tweed.  Certainly nearly every prostitute I encountered there was a foreigner from Indonesia, mainland China, the Philipines, or Thailand, working temporarily, and allowed in for that positive social purpose.

I will bow to your expertise on SE Asia.  I was simply making inferences.