'Potter' Actor Busted

[Garibaldi O'brien]

Is it more patriotic to disobey an arbitrarily imposed law which is bad, than to obey it?

We could rephrase the headline as: "Harry Potter actor arrested for farming." That's all he was doing. Legalize it and all that.

Still, if you're growing a forbidden plant, you might not want to do it in the middle of your bedroom in Mom's house for all too see. //what a dumbass

 

[Turtletrekker]

It is a real crime and he is a real criminal if proved true. Just because you don't agree with the law, that doesn't make it imaginary.

It may not make the law imaginary, but it also doesn't make an idiotic law any less idiotic.

Same response applies: Just because you don't agree with the law, that doesn't make it imaginary or idiotic.

It's monumentally idiotic. $$Millions$$ wasted anually on a "war on drugs" that has made absolutely zero impact on usage, price or availability.

Take the money spent on the war on drugs and the money spent on pot (the country's largest and most profitable cash-crop), and by legalizing it, you take all of that money and (by spending the "war" money elsewhere and taxing the product itself) put money back into tax-payer pockets.

In this current economic climate, wasting $$millions$$ on a "war" that will never be won is, as said earlier, idiotic. Monumentally so.

It is also monumentally hypocritcal. Everything that is said about pot ("it's addictive", "it's a gateway drug") is far moreso true about both alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol and tobacco have been proven to be far more deadly and addictive than cannibis, yet somehow they remain socially acceptable. In fact, the major supporters of continued prohibition (and prohibition has always been soo successful in America ) have been the alcohol and tobacco industries.

If smoking pot makes one a criminal, then more power to them, as they'll be in good company. America was founded by people who were considered criminals by the royalty back "home". Rosa Parks was a criminal. Nelson Mandela was a criminal.

 

[Checkmate]

Little of what you you said has to do with the law itself. You're talking about law enforcement which is a completely different matter. The fact that it's not even remotely limited to marijuana either way also seems to fly right over your self-righteous head.

Regardless, continue thinking that you're some kind of "hero" (and wow, rationalizing and self-delusion is absolutely amazing to see in action; Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela indeed XD) for being what amounts to, by any definition of the term, a complete and total dumbass. Just don't come crying to me when you find yourself fined or imprisoned for being a dumbass. Ditto for any celebrities or anyone else who decides they can do whatever they want without repercussions. Hopefully this clown will get what he deserves.

This delusional self-entitlement is the saddest and most pathetic developement of American culture in the last several decades. Doubly so since it's spreading like an infectious disease.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Oh, Jesus Christ. Please, please show me where I said I (or anyone) was a "hero". You are the only one who said that, so please stop putting your self-righteous words in my mouth. Never has a bad law been revoked if every one mindlessly (ahem) followed it. Slavery was once legal, were the slaves who tried to escape criminal? Technically yes.

Bad laws need to be stood up to, or they will never be changed. Period.

You want to stop Mexican drug wars? Then legalize. You want energize the economy (in a small way)? Then legalize. You want free up space in America's overcrowded prisons (America, "the land of the free", has the largest percentage of it's population in prison per capita, than any other country on Earth, and this is directly attributable to it's draconian drug laws.) Then legalize.

It's the law that creates the crime.

"It's the law" is not, and should never be, an absolute for intelligent free-thinking people. Otherwise we would all be mindless drones who let the government do all of it's thinking for them