Be careful of the stones that you throw.

I was talking with an old friend of mine and a friend of Dolly's. Dolly and I were talking about some of the bike runs I've been on and somehow the subject got around to how Dolly's friend (call her Pat) was at a party and she smelled something burning and lo and behold it turned out to be someone smoking a little weed. she was shocked to find someone doing that at a party that her friends would be at and actually had to be dragged home by her husband because she wanted to turn them in.
Well those of you who now me or have been to biker runs and parties know that there is no way that I am any stranger to Marihuana. I've been in and out of close contact with it since I was 12. No I'm not going to debate the benefits or dangers of smoking weed except to say that I've been around speed freaks and coke heads and different types of hypes. I've also been around drunks. The fact is that Hypes will sell their own mother for another fix and I've seen a speed freak shoot up ice water for the rush Ive also dealt with paranoid cokeheads and a nut case spaced out on angel dust. I don't like dealing with drunks either but I will say that I've never seen a pot head that didn't have problems to begin with that acted out violently on Pot. Say what you will, in the end it is ten times easier to deal with the mildly intoxicated pot head than a mildly intoxicated speed freak or hype or cokehead. It's just that way.
Besides the pot head and the rest are likely to be frome a different sort of group. There are so many otherwise socialy acceptable even conservative type individuals who toke a little weed in the evening. You generaly don't find that among the rest. I won't debate right or wrong because whether you believe it to be right or wrong depends so much on your belief system that it borders on freedom of religion. The fact is that many, many people who are fine upstanding members of society toking.
I knew a fellow, sorry no name, who lived on a farm had a civil servant job and did his job well. He went to church, Protestant if that's important to you. He was pro-life and didn't drink, diabetic, and he liked to hunt. A veteran with a good service record and medals from Vietnam. He didn't even wear an earring. No way you would know that he smoked pot. If you didn't know him you would never suspect. But he kept a few plants just in self defense. He never bought any never sold any he just kept his own supply But he grew outside and he grew Sativa dominant plants. So it ook most of the year to bring his small crop to finish and the plants were tallish. Not very noticable where he kept them. Many of us would say okay let him alone if he isn't driving stoned or selling or buying and supporting the dope industry. But there are those who, like Pat, can't stand to have someone doing something they themselves don't want to do even if it is not immoral so to speak. And one of those found out about my friend. So they went and told about the terrible weed freak down the lane.
The cops did a fly over and hovered right over the spot where he had his handful of Cannabis Sativa and photographed it. They got a warrant and searched his house found guns there, well we all know that a 270 win bolt action with a 20 power Lupold is a favorite weapon among dope gangs and of copurse they found a handgun or two, what a shocker finding guns in Kansas on a damn farm. They also found a few thousand dollars. Not the boxes of bills they show you on the Tv just a few thou. And what a shocker they also found Cannabis Ruderalis on his farm. For those of you who are not familiar that is just ol ditchweed, the sort that gives you a headache and no buzz if you smoke it. No he wasn't using it to mix in with his good stuff. It was just there. Of course his wife knew about his personal weed so she was arrested too.
When the prosecuting attorney came in to the courtroom ans showed the evidence there was a big pile of every Cannabis ruderalis plant they could find on his farm and they were still wet so were the Cannabis Sativa, the real stuff. So the weights were outrageous. Then there were the guns oh my the guns how horrible. You know it's stupid to make a fuss about someone who smokes owning guns but saying nothing about a drinker. Did I mention he was diabetic yeah, I did, for those of you who don't know about it diabetes prevents you from being able to use the sugars that are commonly present in the blood, glucose, so if you drink alcohol the alcohol converts into blood sugar, glucose and you wind up with a terribly high blood/glucose count. You can kill yourself drinking with diabetes. So he chose to smoke. And of course if you smoke somehow it automaticaly follows that you are somehow less capable of keeping a firearm around without using it in a felony. I don't quite understand it but. I think it comes out of that burmuda triangle that the gun barrel laws come from, you know, you can be charged with a felony for having a shotgun with less than 18" barrel yet a M4 carbine is made with a 16" barrel and is smaller, with the stock collapsed that most sawed off shotguns. And I can't have a switchblade knife of any legnth yet I own an assited opening knife with a nice blade that opens faster with a nudge than any switchblade. But I digress, the fact is that if you own a.444 marlin lever action rifle and a 336c 30/30 marlin rifle and a 30" barreled winchester goose gun and you happen to have an ounce of weed they will assume that somehow those weapons were used in the commission of a felony no matter that they are never found in the weapons caches of drug dealers. And if you have any money in the house and you have this same ounce of pot, it is assumed that your money, even if you have a job, was made selling pot. Now it doesn't matter whether you ever actually used the guns in the act of selling pot or if you ever even sold pot at all to make that cash you had. You relaly don't have to break that law to be found guilty of it. I'm serious if you have enough pot you will be charged and of course probably found guilty of "Posession with intent to sell". And it ain't like it used to be back in the day. We used to be able to keep a couple of ounces in allot of the states. Texas and Florida were kinda strict but where I lived it wasn't considered for sale unless you had more than an ounce.
Well my friend found himself suddenly in posession of a number of pounds of pot. His farm and his money including his 401k and his freedom and his wifes freedom were going to be forfiet for a very long time. Why? Because someone couldn't live with the knowledge that someone down the road might come home and have a couple of Jack and cokes. No it was the fact that someone who couldn't drink Jack and coke came home and smoked a little weed that he grew and never sold.
The outcome? My friend couln't stand that his wife was going to prison and so he killed himself. The farm and the equipment and the cars and the money and all accounts are all forfiet. The wife I believe is out of the pen by now probably working a waitress level job.
The little snitch didn't bring any higher level of safety to the community since there was never any problem with my friend. The snitch didn't bring Our Lord or his salvation into their lives. She didn't enrich their lives or save their lives. She ruined their lives and caused the death of a man who went through the worst of the battle for Hue and caused him to commit suicide depriving us of the presence of a very nice jovial fellow depriving his wife of a husband and taking him away from his family.
So be careful of the stones that you throw. Even the small ones can cause a catastrophy. Like my Mom used to say "If you don't have anything good to say shut up!"