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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Maybe, but if you're caught using, you will be busted.
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Maybe.
In this neck of the woods, at least, you have to be pretty blatant. If a cop busts you, he has to appear in court against you. Most would rather not do that unless the bust is for something bigger than using drugs. If they are appearing in court, they
aren't out on the street preventing crime.
I heard one story years back from a dealer about a cop on the beat in the park where he sold marijuana, and the beat cop came down on them. It was a case of the cop effectively saying "Show some respect. I know you are here to sell pot, and I don't care. But if you do it in front of me, I
have to bust you." (Though my impression was the "didn't care" was specifically about pot. Crack/speed/smack/etc. would be another matter.)
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I know about that (well, I know about China, I hadn't heard about the Islamic blocks against porn). As much as I don't necessarily condone it, I can see it becoming mandated worldwide, even in the U.S., and even preferable, if certain political and economic disagreements aren't settled.
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We'll see. The Internet is a powerful incentive to come up with such agreements.
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Dennis