4 took baby on drug buy, police say - OR, how NOT to act when buying ganja

4 took baby on drug buy, police say

This is a good example of things that would not happen if ganja were legal today. How would SB 94 help prevent situations like this? SB 94 will only make things worse.

That said, note where the ganjaists went wrong.

If you have to travel with children, make certain they are properly secured. If one gouy has to sit on the transmission hump, too bad. Make sure your license, car registration, insurance and the condition of the car are not going to give cops any reason to eyeball you, or "enhance" charges against you.

For gods' sake, don't stash your damned weed right next to the baby. What are you, brain damaged? Keep your weed, bowl and papers in your pocket. When you get your sack(s), don't try to hide in a friggin' parking' lot filling a bowl or rolling fat ones. Go home. You are far safer in the privacy of your own home. Did I ever mention that nearly every ganja bust in Delaware is during some sort of traffic stop? No one is busted in their own homes smoking a little ganja.

DO NOT GIVE POLICE PERMISSION TO SEARCH!!!! EVER!!!!!

See the sentence above regarding brain damage. Even if it seems like they "got you", shut the heck up. What in your mind wants you to help the cops make your life into hell?

Make sure your passengers know enough NOT to talk to the police or give permission to search. If the cops have to ask for permission to search, they do not have probable cause. If they have probable cause, they are not going to bother asking for permission, since you will already be in the back of a cop car wearing handcuffs.

Things WILL NOT go easier on you if you cooperate. Does it look like any of these boys are having an easy time of it? NO! Because they did not know enough to shut up and not give permission to search.



(Coming up, new information about how to mount an affirmative defense as a medical marijuana patient if you get busted. I really hope enough people tell their state congress critter SB 94 sucks, or we will lose this defense for MOST patients for a half-assed law that only protects a tiny number of patients who are not being arrested in the first place, and more people will be going to jail.)



November 23, 2009

4 took baby on drug buy, police say

By IRA PORTER
The News Journal

A 25-year-old Newark man and three of his friends were arrested for drug possession Friday afternoon after they drove around looking for drugs with a 4-month-old baby in the car, police said.

New Castle County police said officers stopped a suspicious car near the Castle Brook apartment complex at 1:35 p.m. after a call came in describing the car. Police responding to Saienni Boulevard and Karen Court stopped the car and found an infant improperly secured in the back seat.

According to court documents, Stephan Vickers, the baby's father, was driving. Craig Anderson, 24, and Matreed Spruill, 25, were in the back seat with the child improperly fastened between them. Drew Norris, 23, was in the passenger's seat next to Vickers, court records show.

Court records said Vickers gave police permission to search his car and that an officer found two plastic bags containing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. One bag of marijuana was in the back seat, next to the child. Police said another bag was on the floor, behind the passenger seat. Officers also found drug paraphernalia.

Police said the four were on an outing to buy drugs. The suspects were charged with multiple drug offenses, endangering the welfare of a child and conspiracy. Vickers also was charged with driving with a suspended license, driving without insurance and failure to transfer title and registration. All were committed to Young Correctional Institution, Norris and Spruill on $1,750 bail each, Anderson on $4,000 and Vickers on $3,750 bail. The baby was turned over to family members.


http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091123/NEWS01/911230317/4-took-baby-on-drug-buy-police-say

Could Delaware's Prison Overcrowding Problems Be Solved By Decriminalizing Ganja?

The Open Secret is that most of the people in Delaware's prisons are there not for committing a major, dangerous crime, but for pissing the wrong color. According to the study, Delaware Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Project 2003 to 2006 Evaluation with Recidivism Results, other state incarceration reports, and rough correlations made between the figures for Work Release, and the inmates who are there for violation of probation (most of which are for ganja related "dirty" urine tests), about 35% of Delaware's prison population is in the system for ganja related violation of probation or enhanced anti-ganja sentencing.

 

Don't get me wrong. If one has committed a serious, violent crime, there is no excuse for that. But when about 35% of the prison population consists of merely having having smoked some ganja the time to analyze the rationale behind that treatment has come.

 

Given the relative safety of ganja consumption, it makes about as much sense as the re-incarceration of people because they took a couple of over the counter pain relievers, since it is provable that taking counter pain relievers is more dangerous than consuming some ganja.  It makes as much sense to re-arrest people for drinking milk. If about a third of prisoners have consumed ganja, you can rest assured that almost all of them have drunken milk.

 

 

 

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091120/NEWS02/911200354

Forget about S.B. 94, it's time to legalize marijuana | Delawareonline.com | The News Journal

My LTE gets published a second time. I guess I hit a nerve.

Forget about S.B. 94, it's time to legalize marijuana
November 9, 2009

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091109/OPINION10/91108005/1111/Forget-about-S.B.-94--it-s-time-to-legalize-marijuana

Del. medical marijuana bill could lead to more arrests | Delawareonline.com

Great opinion piece with decent comments.

 

 

 

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091107/OPINION10/91106062/1111/Del.-medical-marijuana-bill-could-lead-to-more-arrests

 

 

 

Despite the Pollyanna rhetoric about the non-existent "New Obama Policy", the arrest rate continues to soar in California and every other state that has passed so-called medical marijuana laws. Instead of creating a more rational environment, it seems pretty obvious that these laws have muddied the waters and encouraged law enforcement to arrest more people for ganja related crimes.

 

These facts, coupled with the limiting effect of Delaware's Senate Bill 94, which will destroy a broadly available affirmative defense, intentionally limit the number of patients who can use medical marijuana, and creates several new anti-religious/anti-recreational consumer laws is why Delaware Cannabis Society has decided NOT to support SB 94.

 

What rational person would abandon the dropping arrest rate in Delaware in favor of a bill that would end encouraging law enforcement to arrest more patients, more religious consumers and more recreational consumers? Where is the sanity in the concept of supporting such a poorly written bill?

 

 

 

Report: Pot use, arrests rising in California

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, November 6, 2009

Marijuana arrests in California are increasing faster than the nationwide rate...

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Nationally, Gettman said, marijuana arrests have doubled since 1991,but marijuana use is unchanged.

Gettman is a former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He said he favors the legalization of marijuana.

Gettman's report came a day after state officials announced that the state-federal Campaign Against Marijuana Planting had seized a record 4.4 million pot plants in California this year, up from 2.9 million in 2008.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/06/BA3D1AFV8I.DTL&feed=rss.news