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Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by intenex »

billpg wrote: post #37
intenex wrote: post #30

Ruining people's lives for no reason at all. Completely nonsensical, but then again when things like this baffle me I get reminded of humanity's past (and present) - gladiators, slaves, genocide, ritual sacrifice, lynching, witch-hunts, genital mutilation, whatever...and things like this no longer seem so bad in comparison. But I lose significant faith in humanity.

"for no reason at all" Private prisons gotta have their supply of prisoners. (I think you mean no good reason.)

Whoah. Didn't realize private prisons existed. Forgot anything can be capitalized

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by dsr_ »

smutticus wrote: post #17

What will this look like 20 years from now when marijuana is decriminalised? I always wonder that when seeing these sad stories. How will our future selves view the ignorance of the past in regards to drug laws? Even 5 years ago I never thought gay marriage had a chance in America. But now it seems like just a matter of time and entirely obvious. There will come a tipping point with drugs laws in America where mariju…

Personal possession of less than 1 oz of marijuana is a misdemeanor offense ($100 fine, not arrestable) in Massachusetts. That was passed at 67%. The police claimed that it would unleash anarchy in the state, that they didn't know how to deal with misdemeanors and didn't have any forms to fill out.

Nothing bad has happened.

We still have blue laws and dry towns, but they are increasingly regarded as eccentric anachronisms.

Remember that the people who were 50 years old and voting each other in to office in the 1990s... are now 70 and retired. People overestimate change in the short run, underestimate in the long run.

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by davidw »

freehunter wrote: post #40
davidw wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they'd loan a few to Italy, which could sorely use a few more traffic stops for things like tailgating at 2 meters and flashing the brights to indicate that at 150km/h, you're way too slow and get the fuck out of the way right now god dammit because I've got a bitchin Camaro. I have daydreams about one of those guys with some Texan cop... "sir, d'ya know just how fast you were goin'? Yer gonna have to come dow…

People in Italy drive Camaros? God, I can think of a couple dozen cars I would rather drive in Italy than an American muscle car. Hell, any Alfa Romeo will likely be classier and of a better build quality.

No, they don't:-) A "Bitchin' Camaro" is not an actual car, it's a state of mind...

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by CJefferson »

I am constantly amazed that people seem so surprised that when people break the law, they get in trouble.

Just because you don't like a law, doesn't mean you should be surprised when, like so many people before them, people get caught for breaking it.

I often wonder if I am the only person in the tech world who wouldn't mind much higher penalties for possessions of narcotics, instead of this current "illegal, but most of the time not really" business. I'd be fine with legalisation too, I just wish the law would go heavily one way or the other.

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by spoiledtechie »

veidr wrote: post #32
smutticus wrote: post #17

What will this look like 20 years from now when marijuana is decriminalised? I always wonder that when seeing these sad stories. How will our future selves view the ignorance of the past in regards to drug laws? Even 5 years ago I never thought gay marriage had a chance in America. But now it seems like just a matter of time and entirely obvious. There will come a tipping point with drugs laws in America where mariju…

I think it will look exactly like it does now: like a brutal and dysfunctional police state violating the privacy and dignity of its citizens and locking them in cages for trivial offenses that harm nobody. P.S. My mom told me in the 90s that they had these same conversations in the 70s. A 20 year time frame may be optimistic...

Please think again when you say it does nobody any harm.

Its well documented, that MJ coming from Mexico does a great deal of harm. You must think of the entire production process. If it were legalized, it would still do people harm. Its been well documented, that doing enough of it will just tune out your senses... Making you a "pot head" and a lazy ass, that I don't want to have to support when you decide to live off the government.

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by gee_totes »

CJefferson wrote: post #45

I am constantly amazed that people seem so surprised that when people break the law, they get in trouble. Just because you don't like a law, doesn't mean you should be surprised when, like so many people before them, people get caught for breaking it. I often wonder if I am the only person in the tech world who wouldn't mind much higher penalties for possessions of narcotics, instead of this current "illegal, but mos…

ORLY?

I'm against higher penalties for narcotics, since the penalties themselves don't seem to provide a deterrent, and just serve to increase the prison population.

People are gonna do what they're gonna do, and I'm for lower penalties, since I think that would mean less people in prison.

Re: Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Post by antoko »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #48
veidr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it will look exactly like it does now: like a brutal and dysfunctional police state violating the privacy and dignity of its citizens and locking them in cages for trivial offenses that harm nobody. P.S. My mom told me in the 90s that they had these same conversations in the 70s. A 20 year time frame may be optimistic...

Please think again when you say it does nobody any harm. Its well documented, that MJ coming from Mexico does a great deal of harm. You must think of the entire production process. If it were legalized, it would still do people harm. Its been well documented, that doing enough of it will just tune out your senses... Making you a "pot head" and a lazy ass, that I don't want to have to support when you decide to live o…

Its pretty bad form to claim how well documented something is (twice in 3 sentences) and then just hand wave and not provide any links to any of this supposed documentation.

(I didn't downvote you)

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