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re: Casualty in the War on Drugs
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:19 pm to Martini
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:19 pm to Martini
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Sorry for your friend but are you saying its the cops, courts and governments fault?
No, just hailing the system for the great laws they have in place to protect us from guys like him.
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Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:19 pm to ManBearTiger
Terrible the grief that falls on a regular guy that does a little drugs compared to a lifelong criminal. The system is set up to protect criminals and marginalize regular people. Sorry your friend took his life , was probably a good guy. And to think the pieces of shite that keep on stealing from society.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
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that caused no direct injury to others)
You don't know that for a fact. To know that you would have to track it from it's origins.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
My boy sfp! 
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:20 pm to stout
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To know that you would have to track it from it's origins.
that would be indirect
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:20 pm to ManBearTiger
So your friend had illegal drugs and had to deal with the consequences? He must have had way more than just personal use. To call someone that takes their own life due to the stress of a drug conviction a "casualty in the war on drugs" is absurd. Sorry your friend couldn't handle the weight of his own decisions
This post was edited on 7/30/14 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:20 pm to ManBearTiger
wow, tough to hear that.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:21 pm to ManBearTiger
I'm sorry he didn't have a badass lawyer. That sucks.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:24 pm to SlowFlowPro
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(again, for possessing a natural substance that caused no direct injury to others)
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(again, for possessing a natural substance that caused no direct injury to others)
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(again, for possessing a natural substance that caused no direct injury to others)
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:26 pm to Andre
Government loves to punish tax paying citizens while letting illegal immigrants come across the boarder like gangbusters
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:27 pm to ManBearTiger
Am I the only one that doesn't feel sympathy for a guy that had to deal with 6 fricking months of drug courts so he took his own life? Man up
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:27 pm to SlowFlowPro
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well a draconian system of punishment, especially for a first offense without any victims, and the ensuing societal scarlet letter of a felony, is kind of a disproportionate price to pay (again, for possessing a natural substance that caused no direct injury to others)
It's scary how few people seem to realize how punitive the drug sentencing systems are.
I know a guy that got popped on the street with an eight ball five years back - wasn't even his, he was getting it for a friend. He came from a politically connected family in his city; an Attorney, his old man leveraged a lot of weight to make it disappear.
This guy was early thirties at the time, credentialed, and upwardly mobile. He still had to sweat out the process for a year.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:28 pm to Ed Osteen
He was about to go to prison for a maximum of 5 years. You sound like am massive douche.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:29 pm to ManBearTiger
Max of 5 years.. Was he a fist time offender? Time served?
You honestly consider him a casualty of the war on drugs?
Why would you post this here? Are you getting the attention you hoped for?
You honestly consider him a casualty of the war on drugs?
Why would you post this here? Are you getting the attention you hoped for?
This post was edited on 7/30/14 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:31 pm to Ed Osteen
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Max of 5 years.. Was he a fist time offender? Time served?
I'm doubting the prison time ate him up as much as the ruining of his career.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:31 pm to ManBearTiger
Sorry to hear that, dude.
Had the same thing happen to a friend of mine a few years back.
Him and another friend of mine were caught with some serious weight (ganja), and were looking at 7 or so years.
One is in prison now. The other killed himself with a bunch of blues.
Had the same thing happen to a friend of mine a few years back.
Him and another friend of mine were caught with some serious weight (ganja), and were looking at 7 or so years.
One is in prison now. The other killed himself with a bunch of blues.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:33 pm to Ed Osteen
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Am I the only one that doesn't feel sympathy for a guy that had to deal with 6 fricking months of drug courts so he took his own life? Man up
Absolutley not.
And to act like the war on drugs fault is equally as cowardly.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:34 pm to TIGRLEE
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And to act like the war on drugs fault is equally as cowardly.
if the punishments weren't so irrational and draconian, or, even better, if possession wasn't a crime, i doubt he'd be dead
but-for
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:34 pm to TIGRLEE
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And to act like the war on drugs fault is equally as cowardly.
Sweet, so now pointing to a flawed system and its effects on those it targets is equitable to suicide.
Posted on 7/30/14 at 9:34 pm to ManBearTiger
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This guy was a grad student instructor, a PhD candidate, and a genuinely good dude who just liked to cut loose.
what department was he in? Just curious, sounds like a friend of mine that I haven't heard from in awhile
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