[Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .

Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
Thu May 24 09:17:44 PDT 2012


Could one be in trouble just by walking onto the WSU or UI campus?

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I haven't read the actual law, but based on the wording "frequenting a place
> where [illegal] drugs are used", you could be arrested for being at a
> friends house if he or she has ever smoked a joint there in the past.
>
> Imagine the idea behind this law were common place.  You could be pulled
> over for driving on a road where other motorists are speeding or cited for
> "frequenting an area where jaywalking occurs".
>
> Paul
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
> To:
> Cc: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:32 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .
>
> So let's say you are at a friend's place,  you're drinking a beer. Your
> friend lights up a joint. You don't leave, you just stay there and keep
> watching the football game. You never touch the joint, you decline politely
> when your friend offers it to you.
>
> Now somehow the police show up. They charge your friend with possession of
> weed, and they charge you with frequenting.
>
> You support that? Seriously? Do you also support our War on Drugs?
>
> Sunil
>
> ________________________________
> CC: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 00:48:44 -0700
> To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
>
> It is really quite simple.
>
> I support the criminal charge of "frequenting a place where [illegal] drugs
> are used."
>
> I simply do not believe that marijuana should be considered an illegal drug.
>
> I believe that the term "illegal" is implicit in the charge, otherwise
> police would be staking out such facilities as Gritman Medical Center,
> Moscow Family Medicine, and other "place[s] where drugs are used."
>
> Oops.  I almost added the Moscow Fire Department to that list.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 0:06, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Sunil,
>
> Yes, it does sound like his position is, "It is ok to smoke MJ, just not to
> be hanging around while someone else is smoking it." Doesn't sound logical
> or sound reasoning to me, I am sure he didn't think about it.
>
> I just think they need to end prohibition on MJ, it isn't working and just
> funds violent crime. All that violence and mass murders in Mexico is the
> result of making MJ illegal. If it was rich white people instead of poor
> Mexicans getting their heads chopped off they wouldn't be ignoring the
> situation like they are now. It is racism in its purist form.
>
> Donovan J. Arnold
>
> From: Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
> To: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .
>
> Tom,
>
> While I understand and agree with your sentiments here, I cannot square them
> with your support last week of the nature of the frequenting charge. I hope
> you mis-spoke when you took that position, or perhaps had not thought it
> through.
>
> After all, if you don't think the individuals below should be charged, why
> would you want someone present in the same place as the marijuana to be
> charged?
>
> Sunil
>
> From: moscowcares at moscow.com
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:20:56 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .
>
> Courtesy of the "Public Records" section of today's (May 21, 2012)
> Mocow-Pullman Daily News.
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> WSU POLICE
> Thursday
> 7:30 a.m. - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for
> alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.
> 8:27 a.m. - An 18-year-old man was arrested via prosecutor's summons for
> alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.
> 10:07 a.m. - An 18-year-old woman was arrested via prosecutor's summons for
> alleged possession of marijuana less than 40 grams.
> -----------------------------------
>
> Two questions, V-Peeps . . .
>
> - How much ya figger it's costin' the Whitman County tax payers to arrest,
> prosecute, and incarcerate these three misdemeanants?
>
> - How much tax revenue ya figger that the state of Washington would have
> realized had those (approximately) 120 grams of marijuana been legalized,
> regulated, and taxed?
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
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