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Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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What a colossal waste of time. Prosecuting someone for selling online something that is illegal in a lot of states. Mindblowing how stupid the war on drugs is.

They have seized 30M in cash which means they will be able to fund their department with that cash.

If taxpayers don’t fund the police, the police funds itself.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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post #2

What a colossal waste of time. Prosecuting someone for selling online something that is illegal in a lot of states. Mindblowing how stupid the war on drugs is.

Yeah, weed really shouldnt be a priority, and should be legalized nationwide, but...

```Canna_Bars, on Hansa, advertised pounds of methamphetamine. In the description of the product, Porras had claimed the methamphetamine came “direct from Mexico.”```

So, defintely not legal anywhere, nor is mass distribution of meth really something that is of benefit to anybody but the cartels he bought it from.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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> The pictures included closeup pictures of Porras’ hand with visible fingerprint ridges. I thought via the title that they fingerprinted the lens used to take the photograph, not that there was literal pictures of fingers.

Of course as a SW engineer you think any kind of digitally embedded fingerprint first.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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The amount of resources that the US federal government will use to pursue ridiculously long sentences (that frequently involve torture[1]) against people who did not victimize a single person is absolutely insane to me.

The prohibition on the possession and sale of drugs must come to an end, and weapons charges should never, ever be brought against anyone who didn't use weapons to commit a crime or otherwise perpetrate violence/cause harm.

Literally no violence and no victim is claimed by the state here, and yet he's going to spend almost six years in prison, even after a plea deal. This is well over a half of a million dollars in tax money, just to house/feed/medicate him during that time (perhaps as much as twice that in the event of medical conditions), not counting the resources spent within the courts, the prosecution offices, the clerks, and the provision of public defenders (if any). It's probably closer to a million tax dollars, all told.

Had he not taken the plea? He could have received a much, much longer sentence: 20+ years. This would then be upwards of 4 or 5 million dollars spent by the state.

Is this justice? More importantly, is this a good use of the public's resources?

A million+ US tax dollars could instead be used to prevent violent crime, or to house the homeless, or any number of other purposes which very easily surpass the benefit or usefulness of the imprisonment of people who do not victimize or harm others.

[1]: in the form of exceptionally long periods of forced solitary confinement, which causes permanent physiological and psychological damage.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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post #3

> The pictures included closeup pictures of Porras’ hand with visible fingerprint ridges. I thought via the title that they fingerprinted the lens used to take the photograph, not that there was literal pictures of fingers.

I strongly suspected that is what they did too. Got to wonder if they used the EXIF data to find him - linking photos of the pot and other social media/etc public shots, then used the fingerprints as parallel construction.
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