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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.

There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here.

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed."

- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

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.

He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.

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.

He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.

What people put into their bodies is their own business.

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.

There is considerable information back from the 80s to suggest that the US war on drugs was actually a system to enable racial discrimination.

Then some years later, the ear on drugs became associated with the growth of the private prison industry and it's lobbyists.

Indeed I provide no references here because it is quite an involved topic and difficult to prove given the publicly available information.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.

What people put into their bodies is their own business.

So you say. I’m not obliged to agree with what you think should be legal or illegal.

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.

I can partially understand that point of view for marijuana (though I think it’s important for a functional society to obey laws, and get them changed if they aren’t working instead of just breaking them based on personal preference). But the guy had been selling methamphetamine too, which is life destroying poison. Our government provides costly services for people who are incapable of taking care of themselves, and that drug creates a bigger burden on those programs. Unless you also advocate for the removal of social safety nets I don’t see how you can justify thinking that the government shouldn’t try to limit drug use.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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post #11
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.

There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here. "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed." - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

> There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here.

The IRS doesn't agree.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.

What people put into their bodies is their own business.

I want to agree with this, but I've seen firsthand how meth heads bring down everyone around them.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.

What people put into their bodies is their own business.

No. We live in a society. If I'm expected to help pick up the pieces when you self-destruct, it's absolutely my business.

Re: Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

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What people put into their bodies is their own business.

So you say. I’m not obliged to agree with what you think should be legal or illegal.

This has nothing to do with an abstract notion of morality.

In our society, we look out for each other, if somebody is in distress, e.g. hurt on the side of the road, we help him, call an ambulance, he gets medical help.

The fact that society makes huge efforts to save and cure people requiring medical attention, is at the root of the taboo on substances (or behaviors) that are unhealthy. Otherwise that would be a pure waste of resources for the society.

At least that was the theory. In practice, you are free to drink booze until you pass out...

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