Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Arrests, punishment, and laws in general in this Democrat administration, are reserved for people who disagree with liberals.
Can you imagine the reaction - both in the media, and from local police - if hundreds of protesters showed up in front of the White House carrying loaded guns?
The two would be similar in that the Fed govt has no authority to regulate either guns or pot. Not that that stops the govt from trying to regulate them anyway.
They would be different from each other, in that guns are explicitly protected by the highest law of the land, while marijuana isn't.
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Hundreds Inhale Pot at Surreal White House Protest
Hundreds Inhale Pot at Surreal White House Protest
by Steven Nelson
April 2, 2016, at 7:32 p.m.
When the smoke cleared, nobody was arrested for participating in a large and blatantly illegal marijuana smoke-in outside the White House.
Attendees of the Saturday event, billed as “Reschedule 420” by the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, urged President Barack Obama to take action in his remaining months in office to reschedule marijuana -- to allow greater research into its medicinal value -- and to pardon jailed pot offenders.
Though many were willing to get arrested, it appeared that just two people, seemingly chosen at random from a smoke-filled crowd, were detained by police. One of them, Lauren Dove, who recently moved to the nation’s capital from Colorado, said both received $25 public consumption tickets.
Dove says the police, who were from the local Metropolitan Police Department, not the also on-site U.S. Secret Service or U.S. Park Police, emptied her ceramic bowl of marijuana, which she says they took as evidence. But they allowed her to keep the bowl.
A light-handed approach to protesters is characteristic of police in the nation’s capital, but Saturday’s restraint surprised attendees well-aware that nearly one million Americans are arrested every year for marijuana.
Residents of the nation’s capital voted overwhelming in 2014 to legalize personal possession of marijuana under local law, but public consumption remains an arrestable offense. And federal law enforcement officers can arrest people anywhere in the city on federal charges.
Though he was the target of the protest, President Obama -- an admitted past marijuana user and a reported member of a pot-smoking “Choom Gang” in his youth -- did not appear as protesters lit up.
Can you imagine the reaction - both in the media, and from local police - if hundreds of protesters showed up in front of the White House carrying loaded guns?
The two would be similar in that the Fed govt has no authority to regulate either guns or pot. Not that that stops the govt from trying to regulate them anyway.
They would be different from each other, in that guns are explicitly protected by the highest law of the land, while marijuana isn't.
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Hundreds Inhale Pot at Surreal White House Protest
Hundreds Inhale Pot at Surreal White House Protest
by Steven Nelson
April 2, 2016, at 7:32 p.m.
When the smoke cleared, nobody was arrested for participating in a large and blatantly illegal marijuana smoke-in outside the White House.
Attendees of the Saturday event, billed as “Reschedule 420” by the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, urged President Barack Obama to take action in his remaining months in office to reschedule marijuana -- to allow greater research into its medicinal value -- and to pardon jailed pot offenders.
Though many were willing to get arrested, it appeared that just two people, seemingly chosen at random from a smoke-filled crowd, were detained by police. One of them, Lauren Dove, who recently moved to the nation’s capital from Colorado, said both received $25 public consumption tickets.
Dove says the police, who were from the local Metropolitan Police Department, not the also on-site U.S. Secret Service or U.S. Park Police, emptied her ceramic bowl of marijuana, which she says they took as evidence. But they allowed her to keep the bowl.
A light-handed approach to protesters is characteristic of police in the nation’s capital, but Saturday’s restraint surprised attendees well-aware that nearly one million Americans are arrested every year for marijuana.
Residents of the nation’s capital voted overwhelming in 2014 to legalize personal possession of marijuana under local law, but public consumption remains an arrestable offense. And federal law enforcement officers can arrest people anywhere in the city on federal charges.
Though he was the target of the protest, President Obama -- an admitted past marijuana user and a reported member of a pot-smoking “Choom Gang” in his youth -- did not appear as protesters lit up.
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