how does the police treat stoners where you are???

[weedguru_animal]

here in Melbourne, i am happy to walk round with a j, NOT like as an walking advert for dope blowing skunk smoke rings in peoples facec etc, but comfortably. i think the police in this state(i say that cos like in th US laws differ state2 state, as do police attitudes) assume a typically mechanical but pleasantly moderate approach to weed, focusing much more considerably on dealers than personal users...

tho I was dismayed,but unsurprised, to read that the British Home Secretray, Mr Narc (Charles CLarke), is set to 'undo' the good work done by his much malligned predeccesor (David Blunket- Blind, nepatistical, but kinda decent and capable in his position, i had thought when he was home secretary).
This good work of which i speak was the downgrading of marijuana as a CLASS B to a CLASS C drug, for Britain, which was supposed to alleviate much of the, very unneccesary and valuable police hours intensive paperwork, which ensued whenver anyone was found to be in possession of ANY marijuana. The re-classification, allowed (yeh i talking past tense, cos what I read gave me a very firm impression that weed would be back to CLASS B by the time I retruned to the Uk sometime near September ofthis year) police to focus more of their resources on more urgent 'crimes' like the sad but manic increase in random violent crime which continues to spread like a dark social plague throughout britian.(this dark social plague isnt confined to british shores, more a worldwide malaise that is a direct side-effect of capitalism).

anyway MR Narc is dumb, though he obviously either A. has his commands from someone abiove him or B. was told by a stoner once to 'chill out and take a toke', tho it could be C. has always followed the laws of the land and steered clear of illegal substances because he beleived them EVIL.....
either way, his intentions to yet again re-classify good greenery is an issue which affects all British stoners in one way or another, though maybe not much.

how are you people treated by the authorities where you live??I mean mainly for any weed-related issues.....

[Dr. Greenthumb]

when it comes to smoking weed in south florida it all depends on the attitude of the cop you happen to run into. i have never been arrested for possesion but i have been caught on two different occasions.

the first time i was smoking in my car in front of my cousins house with a friend. we were waiting for him to get dressed so that we could go out to breakfast. 2 unmarked police cars came up behind us and jumped out of their car with guns pointed. later they explained that they thought we were trying to rob the house and they made us spill the remainder of the weed out on the ground. after that they explained they dont have a problem with potsmokers and understand that unlike other drugs it doesnt lead to crime.

the second time i had the cops unlawfully search my glove compartment where i had a scale, knife, oz of weed and 2oz of shrooms, along with my new pipe. they took the pipe the weed and the lighter they found in my pocket and left everything else. they said i was lucky they werent arresting me and drove off.

my policy when it comes to the police is fuck them but sometimes you have to understand they are trying to do their job and luckily i was never arrested and have no record.

[hotpeadiam]

here in Stratford Ontario it varies depending on the cops. my friends got busted with a HQ and a glass pipe. the cop spilled the weed on the ground and smashed the pipe, but didn't arrest them.

Another time when me and my friends were toking behind some building and all we had was a gram and a pop can, then we got busted. my friend happened to be holding the pop can and he got charged and now he's on probation.

when another one of my friends got busted with a real pipe and some weed (not sure how much) the cop just let him go.

so basically it just depends on what cop u encounter.

[chocolatethai8989]

i live in dover, nj and the cops here treat u like a bitch, as a matter a fact i was arrested yesterday for posession of marijuana and destruction of evidence. they were also were gunna charge me with polution, because i threw a gram bag in a river, but they supposedly let me off the hook.


FUCKIN PORK ASS COPS!!

[TYStonerTY]

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[markd]

this summer i av been chongin up for about a year and have only been cught smokin once i comfortably walk around the sreets wid a jig.(i still keep an eye out for plod tho) when i got caught he said because i was seventeen and admited to owning it (it was only about 2grams) that i only get a caution which is fuk all really.

[tezza_420]

cops where i live (Wollaston) used to be really lenient with people smokin skunk, but lately theyve started cracking down on it loads, i think its cause so many people around here are tokin now compared to a year ago, alot of them are really young aswell, youngest person i know that tokes is 11!!!!

[Bear]

In Romford, Essex Uk, here the police treat you like scum. I hate them, ive become a somewhat anarchist. Im planning on becoming a community support officer and on my shifts, people can smoke as much as they like. Ill just roll their sack in a police note and give it back to them. or if they are larey ill keep it for my friends.

So im gonna try and be fair If i see violence and then i will enquire and do a mini investigation. If its somebodies fault and got smacked up ill pretend to arrest the suspect then tell the victim to go and then set the suspect loose and tell them if they ever commit the crime again i will fuck them up.