Haha! I was listening to the song "Young wild and free" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk just now =P
Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW
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#22What 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…
It likely is not going to take 20 years... at least, for states that aren't Texas. My state (Washington) is the front-runner to regulate the sale of marijuana in this year. I-502 polled with an 8 point lead last month, with 47% in favor, 39% opposed, and 15% undecided. [1] Of course, the initiative in California polled well last year and still failed, but this is almost certainly going to pass in less than twenty yea…
> at least, for states that aren't Texas.
Depends on where in Texas. This was on the Austin news last week. Sorry for the blogspam, best source I could find:
http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/052011/fox_news_marijuana...
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a lifelong resident of the south and a current resident of (Austin) Texas I can tell you. No You have to be very careful driving through the smaller towns. The cops have absolutely nothing else to do and the jursidictions make a lot of money of pulling out of towners over. Mostly for speeding butaparently narcotics busts as well too now
I have never seen so many cops by the side of the road as I have in Texas...
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#24What an unfortunate choice of picture for that article. Also, what a trumped up set of charges. I had a friend just tell me the other day about some hippies that got locked up because they were charged by the weight of their edibles. What a fucking waste of time, money and prosecution of perfectly good members of society.
What an unfortunate choice of picture for that article
The funniest photo of geohot is the one on his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
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#25What 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…
more interesting, what it will look like when you realize some people does not have $1500 readily available to not go to jail after each blockade
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#26I got busted for smoking weed in public in Eugene, Oregon. I walked away with a ticket. I had a 1/8th on me at the time.
The ticket was ten dollars more then the weed that was confiscated.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a lifelong resident of the south and a current resident of (Austin) Texas I can tell you. No You have to be very careful driving through the smaller towns. The cops have absolutely nothing else to do and the jursidictions make a lot of money of pulling out of towners over. Mostly for speeding butaparently narcotics busts as well too now
I have never seen so many cops by the side of the road as I have in Texas...
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 down to the station with me...".
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#28What 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…
It likely is not going to take 20 years... at least, for states that aren't Texas. My state (Washington) is the front-runner to regulate the sale of marijuana in this year. I-502 polled with an 8 point lead last month, with 47% in favor, 39% opposed, and 15% undecided. [1] Of course, the initiative in California polled well last year and still failed, but this is almost certainly going to pass in less than twenty yea…
The federal government can and will still enforce its more severe marijuana laws against residents of states without such laws.
The Supreme Court has taken this case (Gonzales v. Raich) and decided that state medical marijuana laws provide no protection. The court decided 6-3 against medical marijuana laws with one justice a cancer patient and one's husband a cancer patient at the time providing two surprise votes for sanity; most observers expect such state reforms to never again have more than one vote (Clarence Thomas) on the court since those two soon died and retired.
Obama has been an exceptionally lenient president, reducing the prosecution of medical marijuana patients so long as they aren't caught in his frequent raids of buyers' clubs and aren't involved in any kind of commerce or production. Even licensed facilities have been granted no leniency. States that consider state provision and regulation of marijuana have been consistently threatened by Obama's AG Eric Holder with prosecution and incarceration of state officials.
That will likely be enough to defeat legalization initiatives and certainly end the likelihood of measures passed through the legislatures.
But if legalization initiatives pass, expect a new growing industry of federal prosecutions to reverse the new laws. When the Republicans next elect a president, the states that tolerate marijuana will probably see massive punishment doled out until the laws change back.
Actual legal marijuana is not likely to be seen anywhere in America before 2030 and then only if the pace of reform continues to accelerate.
Changes in public opinion are really insufficient in the near term. This is politics. Fear, inertia, and moneyed interestes are arrayed strongly against legalization. The voice of the people enters the discussion weakly and slowly, but it can win over a long period of time.
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#29Hopefully he knows some lawyers. The article mentions some oddities about the search.
I don't take cannabis (and I wouldn't even if it was legal) but I recognise the current status is causing considerable harm; both to people like Geohot getting caught with tiny amounts and to people in Mexico being killed in drug-gang wars.
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#30Ruining 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.