In Germany, where I have my garden, Papaver somniferum is illegal to grow even for ornamental purposes. Up to five years imprisonment. One can get a license to grow it on up to ten square meters for three years. It costs 190 EUR for agricultural and scientific purposes or 75 Euro for private ornamental gardeners.
But it doesn’t seem like anyone gives a fuck.
It has grown in my garden for over a century, in front and behind the house, in multiple colors and shapes. People stop and remark on how pretty the giant blossoms are. They’re blooming right now.
They recently tweaked Australian drug law to cover some of the more obscure psychedelics. And they wrote them broadly; being in possession of any plants containing any amount of these compounds is now illegal.
As a result, just about every Australian homeowner is now technically a felon. A huge variety of Australian native plants contain small amounts of tryptamine etc.
Two well dressed young women are walking through Mayfair when they encounter an older woman who says to one of them “hello, what are you doing these days?”
“Oh, I’m working as a call girl.”
The woman looks horrified and walks off. The third woman says “Why on Earth did you say that to her?”
“Oh, she knows my parents. I don’t want them finding out that I work in PR”.
KingGhidorah, you do know people can inform themselves on ANY topic with a short internet search, right? 1. Begin on Wikipedia for background. 2. Use footnotes in Wikipedia to get a better understanding. Write an intelligent, well-informed post. Easy-peasy, and you never have to crack a book in a Public Library!
Yeah, it’s really appalling. Evidence-based policy and policing has never been popular in the US with regards to drugs, and it’ll only get worse under Sessions. (You’d think it couldn’t get any worse, but it clearly is.) In addition to knee-jerk stupidity, there’s also a history of bad drugs policy being the tool of a racist political agenda - the actual drug policy is almost a side-effect.
The first author is one of those Professional Expert Witness wazzcocks, and his paper is basically an advertisement for his services. It largely comprises a litany of high-profile cases of police and vigilantes shooting black kids, in which he invents an encounter with marijuana for each of the victims, and argues that the encounter turned them violent and scary (and black) so that the police / vigilantes were compelled to shoot in self-defense. So the author is shamelessly self-whoring announcing his willingness to testify in the defense of uniformed lynchers in the future.
I suppose it is in theory possible for someone to argue that marijuana is a major cause of violence, without being an apologist for police racist violence or increased powers. But…
I guess you’re here about the baked goods.
So they haven’t apologised and given it back yet? Get your manufacturing shortage straight, NC.
can only get worse under Sessions.
These people have such enthusiasm for shutting down what they’re put in charge of, what kind of economic inefficiency is this anyhow? Do they need to endow a Heath Ledger Chair For Rulemaking?
Is there independent evidence to corroborate the police story? I.e. Xiong volunteered the information that he was growing opium, and gave them an excuse to search his property?
Cops subpoena your search history after reading “informed” post 2. Draw cop-like conclusions using cop-math and cop-logic 3. Invoke Patriot act and/or Sessions Act 4. BOOM! 100 years jail time no parole.
I’ve been buying muffins from that bakery and combing through them for seeds. I should probably just go direct to Cody in North Carolina now that I have his contact details …
What’s that cold war joke again? Oh yeah. “Why do Bulgarian cops travel in threes? So there’s one who can read and write, one who can make phone calls, and one to keep an eye on these two dangerous intellectuals.”
