toobfreak
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Has America become a country anxious to criminalize everyone for the slightest of reasons, on the slightest of evidence?
Your anger with the police is misplaced. If you're unhappy that recreational drugs in small quantities are illegal and subject to criminal punishments then the person you should be unhappy with is your elected representatives in your state and in Washington.
Politicians from both sides of the house who, unable to learn the lessons of alcohol prohibition, chose to make recreational drugs a criminal offense.
As long as drugs are illegal, cops are obligated to arrest for possessing them.
I'm not angry with the police. If you've read my posts, I'm usually one of their biggest supporters! But I support them because they are usually on the right side of things, not just because they are the police. With great power comes great responsibility. I'm angry with the one cop that couldn't tell simple sugar from a drug, and I'm unhappy with the process. And of course I'm VERY unhappy with the aforementioned jackass politicians who NEVER get it right. Bottom line is that going into this, if Meth is that hard to tell empirically from common sugar by simple examination, then it should have been obvious to all from the start and a reliable means found to solve that. If these tests are that unreliable or the police there that poorly trained, that should have been known and solved from the start. Like I've said, this was not a recreational drug, it was doughnut powder and the officer at the scene has received a written reprimand, but the police somewhere failed in their responsibility and I guarantee you that if I had some doughnut glaze and some crystal meth in front of me, I could tell them apart by any of about four different empirical tests and I could show you, and the fact that these police could not, never looked at meth in training and wondered: "How will I know that from sugar?" Never bothered to learn to tell them apart by any other means than a "drug test" (as already stated, you could tell them apart with a simple pool water pH test), and that BOTH attending officers either couldn't use their field test properly or that the whole thing was no damn good, is the problem. The REAL problem is that no one gives enough of a damn about these things to get them right in the first place, everyone just "does their job" and leaves it to someone else, and in the end, innocent people end up suffering! And all of this just adds to the bad press that the police already don't need any more of.