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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.<br><br>Now somehow the police show up. They charge your friend with possession of weed, and they charge you with frequenting.<br><br>You support that? Seriously? Do you also support our War on Drugs?<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">CC: sunilramalingam@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [corrected] Hmmm . . .<br>Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 00:48:44 -0700<br>To: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com<br><br><div>It is really quite simple.</div><div><br></div><div>I support the criminal charge of "frequenting a place where [illegal] drugs are used."  </div><div><br></div><div>I simply do not believe that marijuana should be considered an illegal drug.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="">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."</span></div><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="">Oops.  I almost added the Moscow Fire Department to that list.<br></span><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On May 23, 2012, at 0:06, Donovan Arnold <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">Sunil,</span></div>
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<div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">Yes, it does sound like his <span style="right:auto" id="ecxmisspell-1"><span>position</span></span> is, "It is <span id="ecxmisspell-1" class="mark">ok</span> to smoke <span id="ecxmisspell-2" class="mark">MJ</span>, 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. </span></div>
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<div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">I just think they need to end prohibition on <span id="ecxmisspell-3" class="mark">MJ</span>, it isn't working and just funds violent crime. All that violence and mass murders in Mexico is the result of making <span id="ecxmisspell-4" class="mark">MJ</span> 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 <span style="right:auto" id="ecxmisspell-5"><span>racism</span></span> in its purist form. </span></div>
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<div style="right:auto"><span style="right:auto">Donovan J. Arnold</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Tom, <br><br>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 <span id="ecxmisspell-9" class="mark">mis</span>-spoke when you took that position, or perhaps had not thought it through.<br><br>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? <br><br>Sunil<br><br>
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<div>Courtesy of the "Public Records" section of today's (May 21, 2012) <span id="ecxmisspell-12" class="mark">Mocow</span>-Pullman Daily News.</div>
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<div>Two questions, V-Peeps . . . </div>
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<div>- How much ya <span id="ecxmisspell-14" class="mark">figger</span> it's <span id="ecxmisspell-15" class="mark">costin</span>' the Whitman County tax payers to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these three <span id="ecxmisspell-16" class="mark">misdemeanants</span>?</div>
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<div>- How much tax revenue ya <span id="ecxmisspell-17" class="mark">figger</span> that the state of Washington would have realized had those (approximately) 120 grams of marijuana been legalized, regulated, and taxed?</div>
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<div><span id="ecxmisspell-18" class="mark">Seeya</span> round town, Moscow.</div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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<div>"If not us, who?</div>
<div>If not now, when?"</div>
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<div>- Unknown</div>
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