Paging Mr Felch, Flight 2079 to Seattle Departing

[MOBIUS]

Because we live in a state with people who are puritanical trainwrecks and they believe they should impose their will on the rest of us. Seattle PD has completely de prioritized pot arrests for individuals and with the new state law coming through in december it wont be nearly illegal to the same degree.

Exactly, now they can concentrate on the real criminals, instead of wasting their time on trivial issues...

Maybe people like DD et al would be happy to pay a sort of police premium tax to cover the amount of time and effort it would take to process the, say, 40k of users estimated by rah at this one festival alone?

Live and let live...

[DinoDoc]

Maybe people like DD et al would be happy to pay a sort of police premium tax to cover the amount of time and effort it would take to process the, say, 40k of users estimated by rah at this one festival alone?

My point there was to ask why even have the law against public intoxication in the first place if you aren't going to enforce it?

[MOBIUS]

Apparently, as pointed out earlier, publicly using weed at this festival is not illegal for obvious reasons. Sometimes the greater good is carried out by turning a blind eye.

People get to go somewhere and feel a bit rebellious smoking in public in the festival, gets it out of their system if you will, so they don't do it on the sidewalk. The police can show they're nice human beings after all, goodwill is exchanged as both sides realise the other isn't as bad as they thought, resulting in a nice environment where people are less inclined to commit crimes and, frankly, waste police time and your money...

I honestly can't see what your problem is in any of that?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

My point there was to ask why even have the law against public intoxication in the first place if you aren't going to enforce it?

Presumably because they are legally allowed to do so reference Snoopy post #23.

Edit - xpost Moby

[pchang]

Hear hear for common sense!

Imagine how much better the world would be if people simply used common sense more often...

I'm afraid that kind of sense isn't common any more.

[Dinner]

This loser never worked at Wal-Mart.

You know, at the time I gave him crap for that too but at least he had a job and these days jobs can be hard to come by.

[Wezil]

I already addressed that Oerdin (let me guess - you didn't read the thread again?).

It was intended to show the stupidity of covering all people with the same label.

[MRT144]

My point there was to ask why even have the law against public intoxication in the first place if you aren't going to enforce it?

Because states are big places.

[DinoDoc]

Presumably because they are legally allowed to do so reference Snoopy post #23.

What's the paperwork like when applying for a temporary suspension of a law? Is it anything like those Obamacare waivers and simply requires a hefty campaign donation?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Not fair. You seem to think its is a fairly routine and easy thing to do. Not so, the stroke of an executive pen is tremendously costly. Those waivers were written on the torn up scraps of that out dated parchment called the constitution. Lots of hard work went into making sure that document was properly dead and buried.