Caleb Swanigan arrested for marijuana possession

[perkinsfor3]

 

[BlazerBeav]

Besides that, look how he's let himself go size wise. Unfortunate.

 

[riverman]

I thought the govt just decriminalized it nation wide....even so....Biggy is slip sliding away....looks like he thinks he's got enough money to stop job searching. I hope he gets some help

 

[blazerkor]

The fucking thread title is an absolute embarrassment to the country... why the fuck would we waste one tax dollar on a second of jail time or the hour and couple of law enforcement officers it takes to book someone over weed. This shit is so fucking stupid. Confiscate the stuff, make the offender do a ton of community service or even labor, pay a fine if they have money and let us all get on with our lives.

I read the article and that was an hour and forty minutes of government employee hours that we'll never get back and a bunch of angry people that have even less respect for what the police do and it's not the fault of the police, it's the lawmakers.

 

[Scalma]

Weed is whatever but it’s been obvious for awhile the dude needs help. Just look at him. Hope he gets it.

 

[riverman]

last photo was a baggie of white powder on his table....now he's arrested...not a good pattern.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I thought the govt just decriminalized it nation wide

I think it was that he had over 3 lbs of it.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I think it was that he had over 3 lbs of it.

"We wouldn't've arrested you for your McDonald's kids meal, but you had to supersize it..."

 

[Chris Craig]

I think it was that he had over 3 lbs of it.

Damn. Yeah, that will do it

 

[perkinsfor3]

The fucking thread title is an absolute embarrassment to the country... why the fuck would we waste one tax dollar on a second of jail time or the hour and couple of law enforcement officers it takes to book someone over weed. This shit is so fucking stupid. Confiscate the stuff, make the offender do a ton of community service or even labor, pay a fine if they have money and let us all get on with our lives.

I read the article and that was an hour and forty minutes of government employee hours that we'll never get back and a bunch of angry people that have even less respect for what the police do and it's not the fault of the police, it's the lawmakers.

Its good business to some, catching people in the system.

 

[blazerkor]

Damn. Yeah, that will do it

Yeah but what it will do is still so goddamn stupid. They should have taken it from him, given him a court date that should take a few minutes to decide the outcome of, made him do a bunch of hours doing work for free to save tax payer dollars not all of this shit that costs us money when he did nothing that was inherently dangerous or injurious to another person or persons.

 

[blazerkor]

Its good business to some, catching people in the system.

Yeah, for profit prisons, more cops on the street than we need, more judges than we need, more local state and federal prosecutors than we need, more of the people that handle the logistics of all of these apparatuses than we need... oh there is a lot of money for a lot of people that we just don't need to be spending that motivates this kind of nonsense and prevents sensible change.

Edit: Oh and by the way this is just the supposedly conservative side of big government. Now Biggie is caught up in a system that makes no effort to make real change in his life and as far as money goes is only motivated to keep him in that system perpetually.

I also forgot more probation officers and everything that goes with that system than we need.

$$$$$$$

 

[Haakzilla]

...looks like he thinks he's got enough money to stop job searching. I hope he gets some help

...I'm sure the prosecutor will argue that's precisely what he was doing with 3lbs of weed -- job searching by way of distribution!

 

[blazerkor]

The fucking thread title is an absolute embarrassment to the country... why the fuck would we waste one tax dollar on a second of jail time or the hour and couple of law enforcement officers it takes to book someone over weed. This shit is so fucking stupid. Confiscate the stuff, make the offender do a ton of community service or even labor, pay a fine if they have money and let us all get on with our lives.

I read the article and that was an hour and forty minutes of government employee hours that we'll never get back and a bunch of angry people that have even less respect for what the police do and it's not the fault of the police, it's the lawmakers.

By the way when I say all of this I'm not really talking about weed, I'm talking about other illicit drugs. Weed should be legalized federally, the fact that it's not is a fucking joke in itself. I'm talking about drugs in general. If the bust doesn't include other crimes like outstanding warrants, illegal gun charges or violent crimes that make the dealer a danger to society (and we can't just assume they are because they have drugs) then the drugs should be confiscated they should get a date for drug court (this is an important designation because it's specific and has programs like labor and treatment instead of jail time) and then send the person on their way.

If at sometime the police want to spend their time interviewing the drug possessor to see if that person can help them solve real crimes then that should be done on the street or in the persons home. They should offer to knock time off of the person's tax saving labor or pay them as an informant. If the person has no information they should quickly move on without coercion of any kind. This shit has to stop the war on drugs is so futile and makes more criminals that kill and/or die than it does save lives. OK as aggravating as this shit is, it probably belongs in the OT section and since I don't frequent that forum I'll just shut up now.