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But what "crime" did he commit? Sounds like he was just a prepper that wanted to get high.
What is the crime officer? Enjoying a meal? A succulent weapons grade explosive meal?
Also, note that the arrest predates Texas marijuana decriminalization
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY GRENADE LAUNCHER
GENTLEMEN, THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp plants?
Although don’t many decriminalization or legalization laws also have an upper limit on how many plants you can grow for personal use? I could still see some intent to distribute charge with 1000 plants
I still don't see a victim of crime here. All I see is a victim of unjust laws
God forbid someone pick up a horticulture hobby.
So, technically yes. But Texas decriminalization came out of a court case around what constituted medical marijuana under a 2019 law. In this case, the issue was a court ruling in which cops had to prove a certain Delta-9 THC level in a product in order to seek prosecution. And the process for determining that value was so expensive and unreliable that enforcing the law was functionally impossible.
Subsequently, a number of major municipalities and DAs basically gave up on prosecuting these cases, leading to de facto legalization.
Makes sense. FWIW I’m not defending the law, just seeking all the info
Sounds like a good semeritan to me
Having guns? In Texas?? THE CRIMINAL SWINE!
Having weed, in Texas, when it was a big deal.
So terrible dangerous of him...(Clutches pearls) Someone might have gotten high off all that devil's lettuce!!
Have you never seen the size of roaches in Texas? And they fly!
The "launcher" is probably one of those under barrel AR-15 attachments which is trivial to get (expensive and might also require the steps below, but that's a one time thing).
The grenades though:
To legally purchase, make, or possess a Destructive Device (DD) you must:
And you have to do the forms and pay the $200 for each grenade individually.
Probably to defend themselves against all those feral hogs
Yet, civil war may still come and civilians will need all the fire power they can get.
Until 2023, it was federally illegal to possess any illegal drugs along with a firearm, and drug users were barred from buying firearms.
Fortunately marijuana isnt a drug
You know, I don't think I've ever seen someone take this position. Pro/anti legalization yes, but never "it's not a drug" (it's a feature).
You're wrong, but at least you're novelly wrong!
How is weed a drug, but alcohol and tobacco aren't? If it's illegal to possess a firearm with weed, why isn't it illegal with liquor or cigarettes?
What? Alcohol and tobacco are both drugs - as with caffeine, they are not illegal ones, but they very much are still drugs. Not sure where you're getting the idea they're not.
And the second part, racism probably? (though posession of a firearm while intoxicated is usually an exacerbating (not the right term sorry) circumstance)
Katt Williams literally has a set where the whole premise is that weed isn't a drug; it's a plant. It's not even a novel position.
That's an untenable position. I mean, Cocaine is a plant, too.
Chewing on a coca leaf really isn't the same as processing the plant into cocaine. By the logic of the comedian, buds are plants but concentrates are drugs. 😌
And in both cases, missing the point. Categorize based on the chemistry, not the source of the chemical.
I'd love to have "cocaine light" available, maybe not chewing the leaves but in some form or another, that is less intense than the well known powder. Basically just a step above coffee, would be amazing for my long work days.
You can just put actual cocaine in stuff.
Like. Coca Cola with cocaine in it is actually fucking delicious. Seriously, delicious. You can tell right away that’s the way it’s meant to be.
I've never actually done coke, would that add a subtle numbing effect on the mouth? It sounds 100x better than snorting it, I could see it being massively popular if not illegal.
There is indeed a slight numbing effect. You don’t really get a proper coke high off it either unless you dump a shitload of it in. It’s more of a subtle energizing effect, very different from snorting it.
Though I’d imagine you could just dump a shitload of blow into the Coca Cola and get high as balls. Not sure how it all works when ingested orally.
Mate de coca! Very pleasant tea, great treatment for altitude sickness. Fun fact, the largest importer of coca leaves is Coke, as it's rumored to be one of the ingredients in coca cola.
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Cough.
Well shucks, I suppose I should preface everything new I encounter with "to me" going forward, since that can't be expected to be implied through grammar alone...
There's a famous quote from Schwarzenegger as CA governor where he said "It's not a drug, it's a leaf."
It's not novel at all wtf
I think the majority of humanity would agree that cannabis is not a drug
I've got no idea if you're trolling or not. But on the chance that you're not, drugs are either synthesized or bio-derived.
I suppose an argument could be made that under that definition cannabis is a plant and THC/CBD are the drugs, but that's dubiously semantic at best since the consumption of cannabis is what produces the effect.
By that definition, water is a drug
Yes, your point being?
1000 plants is definitely a grow op and the weapons were to protect it
Good luck justifying that you need 1000 plants for your personal consumption