Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:45 am
I don't think most people including the media understand how big of change it is......we're talking......felony charges that a lot of people are doing serious time for becoming nothing....totally within the law to drive around with a crank pipe full of meth, syringes full of smack, you name it.....posession of paraphernalia was a fifth degree felony and it's now legal to have whatever paraphernalia on you.
I'm half tempted to start dealing since it's now totally legal to have your trunk full of large crank pipes. There's big ones out there that I always thought were novelty, more or less just a joke because there's no other rational reason to actually use it. These things are huge....could easily melt a quarter or even a half in it.....hell, someone is going to start making crank pipes out of fishbowls because why the fukc wouldn't you?
Uh, let's see.....go to prison for several years to a decade for getting busted with a pound of meth in your trunk......OR......
Make a piece of paraphernalia large enough to put a pound into in order to circumvent the law and now be legal since you're no longer hauling a pound of crank which gets you intent to sell and all sorts of other charges because what casual user operating firmly at the end of the line is ever going to have a pound of crank?
Unless you have a squeaky clean record and it 's your first offense.....a first degree felony punishable by up to 40 years in prison and a fine up to and including a $1,000,000.......you're fukced. Doing five years minimum, get out in maybe half doing drug boot camp, treatment options, and a lengthy probation period with frequent random UA's.
Or you could take a torch with some map gas and heat up the side of a fishbowl until it's glowing red, grab an old stem and blow it into the side, and Walla!
"PARAPHERNALIA"
Melt that pound of crank in that fish bowl a bit and you're free to drive all over the state while being totally legal as long as you're fully compliant with traffic laws and the like. Note: jt's amazing how dumb tweaker are when driving....women tweaker behind the wheel of any vehicle are the single dumbest people on the planet. I knew a chick who was moving shit and got tagged in Iowa doing 90 in a 65 and after she miraculously gets let out, given her car back with all the shit she had in it, she then gets tagged in Missouri.....also doing 90 in a 65.....and now she is who the fukc knows where because she "borrowed" a mutual friend's car and never came back. Fled and didn't make her appearance for a slew of felony charges down in Missouri. My guess is they set her up....let her out in Iowa because she's such an ornery dumb bitch she was stupid enough to piss them off to where they released her knowing what was up....so she'd get stopped in Missouri knowing that A) she was that fukcing stupid to keep speeding and give them an easy reason to stop her....pretty much at any point they wanted to stop her and B) she's all sorts of extra fukced since they got an air tight case of her crossing state lines with a bunch of shit making her charges become federal.
Anyways....
I wonder what will happen from the legalization of paraphernalia. Part of me thinks it'll be terrible....along the lines of Seattle, San Fran, Portland degenerates being degenerates out in the open.......but a bigger part of me thinks it'll be nothing. The more I get older the more things stay the same. People don't do a lot of stuff these days....the average person lives a very isolated and boring life compared to even just twenty, thirty years ago.
The one exception is tweakers. That's a large part of why I like doing the shit....the people. It's like being a kid again. Everyone has these big ideas for doing cool shit that is off the wall.....way more fun and interesting than normal people.
So that's the X-factor here.....how ambitious tweakers want to go with pushing the limits of the law, and if they do.....people might be reminded that before Deadwood was the wild west and lawless......there was a town every bit as bad that came before it......Crow Wing.....and MN might become that again....the wild lawless west.
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