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In reply to the discussion: Betty Crocker is a pro-homo, anti-christian socialist homofascist communist librul traitor 2 Murkkka [View all]jmowreader
(52,872 posts)Thanks to Edwin Meese, people buy it by the gram now...in our Just Say No culture, you'd get many years in prison for holding two weeks' worth of pot. In the modern era, an ounce would be charged, at least in Idaho, as possession with intent to distribute...not "possession with intent to not have to shop for weed until next payday."
Funny war story follows: When I was in the 101st Airborne from 1982 to 1984, our ground surveillance radar company had a barracks search (aka "Health and Welfare Inspection."
One guy got caught with some marijuana, so he had to be punished. When you're punished by Article 15 of the UCMJ, you have two sessions in front of the commander: one where the Article 15 charge is formally read to you, the second three days later when punishment is handed down. In this kid goes for his first reading..."Private Beetle Bailey, I am considering punishing you under Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for possession of two marijuana cigarettes." At this point the kid just goes off, threw away military discipline and started screaming "what the fuck, are you a stupid motherfucker, what the fuck is this..." The commander was a good guy who didn't get mad and finally got the problem out in the open: "Sir, I had a whole lid. That motherfucker stole my dope!" The motherfucker got five years in Leavenworth.