• pan_troglodytes
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    11 months ago

    so they illegally purchase it and then sell illegal goods, legally?

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      11 months ago

      Eh, not legally. It’s illegal but condoned (up to 5 gram, for personal use only). Meaning they won’t arrest or prosecute you for it, but technically you are still beaking the law. I guess in theory some DA could add it along with other charges. But since we don’t have a US-style kangaroo court system, this never happens.

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          11 months ago

          A lot of DA’s in the US trump up charges and add anything they can think of, often in order to scare the defendant into settling out of court. I believe some 97% of cases in the US are settled out of court. That doesn’t happen over here.

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          In the the old days, frontier judges would “hop” from one town to another and hold mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.