Former Portland Trail Blazer Travis Outlaw has been arrested on a federal marijuana charge.

Back in the 80s, mine was red. Looked sharp, but had a dealer-added air conditioner underpowered by a 4-cylinder engine.

 

"The law is the law" is the essence of fascism's definition...a belief that your code of morality is identical to the code of law you happen to have been born into. You need to realize that you live in an intersection of physics fields...a cultural system, a legal system, a moral system, an economic system, etc. It's up to you to reconcile their contradictions into a personal morality, instead of the childish belief that they are all identical. Just a little profound acid thinking for you to contemplate...

As for your analogy to speeding, traffic accidents kill tens of thousands of Americans per year. The number of LSD deaths per year is zero. That's right, zero.

Straw man, just like looking into the Sun while on LSD. Can you name any heavy machinery accidents caused by marijuana? As for waiting for the government to allow Americans to do what we want, you'll be waiting forever. Here in Washington State, we voted for marijuana. Then, many cities put up legal roadblocks against the people's will. Your false assumption is that we live in a democracy, in which we can vote on issues and get results.

If only the valid method worked. 45 years after the Baby Boom generation expected drugs (and freedom) to be legalized within 5 years, nothing has changed, except for Republican haters greatly increasing prison terms and reclassifying almost all misdemeanors into felonies.

The "ways" haven't changed anything. The hypocrisy is on your part, not ours.

Think of millions arrested over the decades. Think of a hundred million living in fear of speaking up in a police state.

 

Jlprk, I'm all for doing what you believe is right. However, until a law you don't agree with is changed, fucking obey it.

 

Let's say you live in Nazi Germany and the law requires you to turn in Jews. Or say, some law requires all Texas Christians with adopted children to kill their children. You say, "The law is the law. If most adults have broken this law, go change it." But anyone who talks openly about drugs as I'm doing invites a tapped phone, an infected computer, etc. Some laws are impossible to change.

 

so no cunnilingus action will be allowed

 

Or just don't get caught.....

 

If the ways haven'y changed anything slavery would still be a thing, women would not be allowed to vote, gay marriage would not be a thing and tons of other things would not have happened. You are factually wrong.

 

Again, if you don't agree with the law, don't obey it, and try to get it changed. However, if you break the law and get caught, then that's on you.

Now let's get back to you comparing possessing weed with turning in Jews and keeping children homeless.

I think marijuana and prostitution should be legal, so we can tax the shit out of it and make it safer for the people involved. It's not though, so either don't do it, or don't bitch when you get arrested.

 

So when a law says your allowed to only bathe once a day, but you stink after 3 hours of basketball and you showered before hand. Are you waiting until the next day to shower?

Sorry, but its not black and white. Its grey and laws get broken on a daily basis in every state and many laws that are absurd, cops will look the other way on as well.

In most states its illegal to spit in public, but if your choking on something or have something disgusting in your mouth like a bug that flew in it walking down the sidewalk, are you not gonna spit it out?


This black is black and white is white thing about laws is a bunch of crap.

There are also moral laws that the government has a conflict in trying to legislate. Is it up to God or the State?

There are also laws that have changed from legal to illegal back to legal again all based on the representatives in office. How much of a joke is that and who is right?

Who was right during the prohibition?


You don't just obey any law because its a law. There must be some common sense involved and often common sense doesn't come from the masses. It comes from the individuals. That's why when people gather its a cluster fuck of anarchy more often than not when protesting something.

 

Look, jaywalking is illegal but I don't think people should go to jail for it. I know there are literally hundreds of thousands of rape kits untested and police say they don't have the resources. But they bust someone for smoking pot? Please.

For all you self righteous folks, ever drive 5 miles above the speed limit? If a store gives you too much change, do you hand it back? Ever litter?
Who was it who said something about let he who is without sin be first to cast a stone?

I see a ton of defense of any athlete charged with assaulting his girlfriend but when Travis or Sheed smokes pot, the same people are all up in their law abiding snits.

 

I do not always see eye to eye with MM - but imho he is on the money here. If you are unwilling to work on changing the system from within or too impatient for it to happen in the time it takes, do not bitch if you pay for breaking the law. It's that simple.

You either work to change it legally - or the price of changing it "illegally" is something you should be willing to pay.

 

But you can spend a lifetime trying to make a change and have nothing happen.

And then there is this....

Ive been smoking pot my whole life. But I was in the wrong. But now the law has been changed and its okay. SO what they told me was wrong and punished me for years ago is now considered right. Do I get my money in fines and time spent in jail back because the government was wrong?
Hell no.
So just because something is against the law doesn't mean its right and it doesn't mean it will ever be changed. and it doesn't mean you should obey it. It means there are imperfections everywhere in this world including the government, but the government has not made amends to all those who have been wrongly punished over the years, so Why should I give a shit about a consensual crime that doesn't harm anyone else, other than the fact that I might be punished for it?

Life is about taking chances. Sometimes you have to take chances on ridiculous laws as well.
Fuck obey the law as a black and white because the laws have been wrong.

 

Just avoid the Salts.

 

Or keep 30 cats and cover yourself with anchovies first thing in the morning

 

I think those carTs are going to make You smell terrible.

 

I thought you had to qualify for the Olympics first?

 

You sure that black is truly black?