Posted by Lou Pilder on August 19, 2003, at 8:39:57
In reply to Re: Lou's request for a determination-MJ 2, posted by NikkiT2 on August 19, 2003, at 6:18:35
NikkiT2,
You wrote,"All I said was that I smoked marajuana."
But you also wrote that you did this on almost a daily basis.
Now regular use would requier obtaining the illegal drug through sorces . The psychiatric manual describes this behavior.
I believe that we all have an obligation to be the exemplar to our young people here, and I would like to see the moderator here, aka, Dr. Bob, make a determination about posters being allowed or not to post about their use of illegal drugs. whether the penalty for possession of small amounts is just a fine, does not change the illigality of the drug. and if people use an illegal drug on a regular basis, they would either have to go out each day and find someone to get the drug from, or have an amount handy that could last them many days or weeks or such. This could mean that the user would buy more than the amount that would be punishable by a fine, and could lead them to but ,perhaps, the amount that could land them in prison, even though they only smoked a small amount. This happened to a women that I went to high school with. She was at a party where MJ was being smoked and the police were called and they were all arrested. A small amount of cocain was found and they all recieved one year in the penitentery. The MJ charge was secondary, but they were still charged with such and got addittional time in prison. Now if the MJ was not going to be used at all, perhaps she would not have gone to prison for the cocain was there and she did not know of it, but the police didn't care about who knew and who didn't know.
Lou
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