The social contract is obey cops when asked. When this does not occur things escalate. Sadly both sides has amp up over the decades. Now both sides have lost control,respect and have distrust for each other.

Don't need to banning police dept just publicly change with both sides agreeing.

I propose, in big broad strokes.
No one goes to jail unless a serious crime murder, armed robbery or a warrant is out on you.

IF pulled over, be cool, comply, knowing nothing will result in arrest/ jail.

If you have a dime bag, kilo coke, etc, I don't care, they take it and fine you the value also. Also the right to gather you address and those with you. Then because e of your offense the PD ( where ever you live or moved to) has a 6 month right to knock and cursory search of your residence ( and those with you). Same deal they find, take anything illegal and fine of equivalent value. LB of weed, Kilo of coke I don't care. Take and fine. Guns take and if used in crime then warrant for arrest. Finding stuff allows cops to stop by again with in 6 months and now have right for thorough search. Same deal search, take and fine. If 3rd search occurs and find stuff then criminal charges filed if heavy drugs or amounts found.

With this in place no would / should put up a fight. Cops not to make arrest, populate jails or f over people with high court costs.

This should help change bad behavior, let minor crap slide, and bad dudes land in jail fair and squarely.

Was Ameripig full of dime-bags? Awesome.

>> ^honkeytonk73:
I can legally buy a gun, but I can't buy a dime bag for personal use. Just something seems weird about that.


I can legally buy a dime bag -- I could legally buy an ounce -- but only in California, and only if I present my papers.

Years ago, I was given a citation for possession, but along with that I was also required to go to a local community college and take a marijuana "class". The cop who was instructing us on the downsides of our drug of choice told us straight up that most of the law enforcement in California doesn't give a shit about us smoking it, as long as we're in our homes and not driving on the roads. He then went on to tell us how much worse alcohol abuse was and that if he wasn't a police officer he might be a smoker himself. Sadly, he told us, he remains an alcohol abuser! It was pretty duuuhhh, but hearing a cop telling us that in a court appointed class was amusing.

I can legally buy a gun, but I can't buy a dime bag for personal use. Just something seems weird about that.

It seems nowadays friends step to me bogus
and end up on my couch at night without notice
it's cool to have a friend over every now and then
but I gotta have my space
and I don't wanna see their face
like every single day of the week
talk is cheap
you betta find yourself another place to sleep
it ain't my fault that ya moms got fed up
and now you wanna come to my crib and wet my bed up
you better find a job so you can get an apartment
and you can save your crocodile tears
don't even start
with the sob stories
I got enough from the other seven brothas
in the den playin' Genesis
damn I can't win at this
seems like I'm gonna have to flip
and tell those other brothas
that they're gonna have to skip
I've had it up to here with these lazy cats
sleepin' on my couch and I'm tired of that

People come to my house
and kinda wonder where the squadron's at
they're not gone
they're just down at the laundrymat
because they wear the same pairs of clothing
I'm taking up crazy patience just holding
my temper
I'm about to start charging rent for
every single brother
that kicked it with my mother eating biscuits
on Saturday morning like a family
the minute they step
it's like moms is crazy mad at me
'cause they're in my mother's room watching television
I feel like giving 'em the boot
and say the hell with 'em
but if I give 'em the boot
I'm not a friend though
even though my room
smells like dime bags of indo but
I can't pretend like I haven't been peepin' it
even mom knows that my brothas been sleepin'
on my couch for weeks
so your speeches fall flat
sleepin' on my couch and I'm tired of that

Maybe this was just my upbringing perhaps
but I was taught that I shouldn't
take seven day naps
at other brothas' cribs like I don't have a home
brothas on my couch so much there's like foam
coming out the seams
and a pair of jeans is missing from my closet
I wonder why I even bother being friendly
they're running my ass like the Indy 5000
they went and wrinkled my mother's blouse
when they snuck downstairs
for a midnight snack
and ate the last slice of bread
and a box of apple jacks
then they hit the sack
with the stereo blastin'
and even little Tyson is fed up
so I'm askin'
you all to jet
before I get upset
and throw each and every one
of you bums out on your back
my house is a mess
so step ya little pest
who was sleepin' on my couch 'cause I'm tired of that

I'd wager that the cocaine is more profitable than the mary-wanna. I'm sure the cartels would still find plenty of people to kill over the cocaine.

The biggest benefit would be not stuffing the prisons full of 20-somethings serving 18 months for possession of dime-bags.

>> ^HadouKen24:
>> ^burdturgler:
Alcohol is legal and it's responsible for countless deaths and suffering (and a lot of my stupid comments here) .. yet, I am not allowed to make my own whiskey. I bet if pot were ever legalized I would still not be allowed to grow my own.

You can, however, brew your own beer and make your own wine. Making whiskey is restricted not because of the intoxicating powers of the final product, but of the dangers involved in getting there. Not only is there a risk that, should you screw up, you'll end up unwittingly downing a bottle of wood alcohol (the stuff that makes you go blind, then kills you), but you might even screw up and blow up your still.

It's not a drug thing. It's a safety thing. Odds are that, if cannabis were legalized, it would be legal to grow for personal use as well as to buy and produce commercially.


Distilling whiskey is no more dangerous than deep frying a turkey, yet hundreds of people burn their houses down each year because it's allowed.

It's not a safety issue, it's a control issue, and that's the same reason that prevents the re-legalization of cannabis. The people that own the lawmakers want to control exactly how you and I enjoy ourselves, and we continue to allow them by electing the same kinds of shitheads that kiss the alcohol and tobacco lobbies' asses.

If we can assume that lawmakers were to end the prohibition on cannabis, you can almost guarantee that you'll have to purchase it from a dispensary, where you'll have to endure TSA level security checks to get a dime bag.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Most definitely a police officer. For reasons beyond the obvious, there's
1) I don't do drugs, and I think they're a waste of money and life
2) I don't feel like going to jail
3) A cop has a steady job, and is much more likely to be a highly responsible individual, meaning I probably won't have to put up with Cheeto wrappers everywhere
4) Weed fuckin smells like cigarettes and ass
5) I don't allow the smoking of anything (legal or not) in my house
6) I won't have smelly losers coming over at all hours of the night to buy a dime bag,
7) Drug dealers are degenerates
I could go on, but I don't want to.

P.S. I don't want to hear about people that smoke drugs that are also highly productive members of society. There are also murders and rapists that are (or were) highly productive members of society. That means nothing in this thread.




Someone is Boooorrrring.

Most definitely a police officer. For reasons beyond the obvious, there's
1) I don't do drugs, and I think they're a waste of money and life

2) I don't feel like going to jail

3) A cop has a steady job, and is much more likely to be a highly responsible individual, meaning I probably won't have to put up with Cheeto wrappers everywhere

4) Weed fuckin smells like cigarettes and ass

5) I don't allow the smoking of anything (legal or not) in my house

6) I won't have smelly losers coming over at all hours of the night to buy a dime bag,

7) Drug dealers are degenerates

I could go on, but I don't want to.


P.S. I don't want to hear about people that smoke drugs that are also highly productive members of society. There are also murders and rapists that are (or were) highly productive members of society. That means nothing in this thread.