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Ferrets are Cool

(23,048 posts) Fri May 16, 2025, 09:09 AM May 2025

How messed up is it that in America you can be arrested and put in jail for smoking a weed

BUT you can endanger yourself and your grandkids by swimming in a sewage filled creek with impunity.
America is so fucked up.

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How messed up is it that in America you can be arrested and put in jail for smoking a weed (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool May 2025 OP

It wasn't a sewage filled creek, it was a stream feeding into rock creek, not rock creek itself. No sewage. Blues Heron May 2025 #1

Says who? Ferrets are Cool May 2025 #2

RFK himself - he clarified it was in Dumbarton Oaks park, which has a stream that is not a sewage overflow Blues Heron May 2025 #3

I can't be arrested for smoking weed obamanut2012 May 2025 #4

Blues Heron

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1. It wasn't a sewage filled creek, it was a stream feeding into rock creek, not rock creek itself. No sewage.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Fri May 16, 2025, 09:33 AM

May 2025

Ferrets are Cool

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2. Says who?

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Fri May 16, 2025, 09:50 AM

May 2025

Blues Heron

(9,032 posts)

3. RFK himself - he clarified it was in Dumbarton Oaks park, which has a stream that is not a sewage overflow

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #2)

Fri May 16, 2025, 05:57 PM

May 2025

Its not the best move, but not what is being portrayed.
Its a powerful meme though that is clearly not going back in the genie bottle!

obamanut2012

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4. I can't be arrested for smoking weed

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Fri May 16, 2025, 06:06 PM

May 2025

Either here in CA or when I lived in FL and had a FL MMJ card.

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