Looking for stories of times you interacted with a criminal organization in any capacity. Were/are there any infamous locals frequently talked about in your area (please don’t dox yourself). Please give a genuine answer not a political stance. The only one I think I’ve had was a story I’ve told here before about having met an Aryan brotherhood guy when I was 12ish.
The only victims of the crime of cannabis possession are the people who get arrested for it.
Edit: guys, I’m aware that illegal cannabis ruins lives. That was quite literally the point of this comment.
I don’t think listing a handful of instances where illegal cannabis can lead to victims does anything but prove my point for me.
Hey, let’s not forget the victims of trafficking that got to become indentured farmers at the behest of criminal overlords in jurisdictions where cultivation is criminalised.
Let’s not forget the militias that get armed via resin and kiff sales.
Let’s not forget the corner boy who gets nanked for slinging off the wrong curb.
I wish the ganja business people were more like their target audience in demeanour; but criminals always going to criminal.
Every single thing you listed is a direct consequence of cannabis prohibition.
It only has victims because it is illegal. Which was literally my point.
Who is going this deep and up voting the pro-cannabis prohibition comments? Weird. If I didn’t know better, I’d think someone was using alts.
Yes, that’s literally my point too. Because the law decided to make it a crime there are victims. If it was not criminalised then none of my scenarios would exist. Without the “crime” there would be no victims - which is what you correctly stated.
I haven’t seen any pro-prohibition comments and really don’t care about votes or whatever. Internet strangers ain’t no thing to me; respectfully.
I’ve smoked weed for 35+ years - I am as anti-criminalisation as you could ever meet.