Furburger

If you get caught with cannabutter brownies or cookies (let's just say made with a 1/4) how do they determine how much they charge you with? I would hope they wouldn't take the weight of the food or some BS like that. If you want to drive with a small amount is a hidden cig cellaphane or a batch of brownies (with other food) a safer bet? I'm assuming a dog can smell cannabutter food...

jodster

They weight the brownies and you get charged that. At least thats how it is in Texas. So...better eat up hah.

Furburger

You are kidding right? I know Texas is extra harsh but that just defies all logic and reasoning. You would think some kind of excessive punishment laws would go into effect, like if you had a 1/4 but it was baked into 2 or 3 lbs of brownies they are gonna charge you with 2 or 3 lbs of contraband (which is probably a life-sentence in Texas)...how can that even be possible? They may as well take the weight of the container and hell even the car into consideration too by that logic.

troublemaker_42

If the way they measure pot in food is at all similiar to the way they weigh LSD-laced products like sugarcubes and blotter paper, jodster is exactly right. While only a few micorgrams of LSD is needed to effectively trip, the actual LSD isn't whats weighed when you get busted...the carrier is weighed too. If that sugar cube weights 3 grams, you're being charged with possession of 3 grams of LSD, despite the fact you actually only possess under a 100 micrograms in reality. I don't see pot being much different. By lacing food with it, you are effectively increasing the amount you'd be charged with possession of. If you use 1 oz of pot to make brownies weighing a lb, you may very well be charged with possession of the lb. it may not make sense, but who said laws were logical?

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Buzzby

I don't know if it's still true, but it used to be when they'd bust a grower they'd pull up the plants and weigh them, dirt, roots, stems, leaves, buds, and 75% water. That's the weight they'd charge you with, not the weight of the dried and cured buds. You could have ten pounds of plants that would have produced five or six ounces of finished bud and you'd get charged for the ten pounds.

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Furburger

Okay, I'm convinced it's not worth the risk to carry around food. It would be nice if these pigs would ammend some of this prohibition bullshit so it was within reason, but I guess that would require some intelligence.

telefunken

the "pigs" as you call them, don't make the laws, and they can't amend them, their job is only to enforce them. How red-ass they are in enforcing the law may be somewhat up to them I suppose, but really, if you're interested in having the laws amended or repealed, then a big part of that is up to you, not them.

Hang out here a lot, and get involved. Join norml, be sure to keep bugging your congressmen about it. Really, just take every opportunity you can to work towards decriminalization/legalization. That's the answer really...

Furburger

I don't mean cops when I say pigs. Cops are more like sheep. I guess I was thinking along the animal farm/pink floyd lines. I think I do my part by voting Democratic because basically IMO a vote against the Republican party is a vote against the drug war. I don't think writing to any politician is going to make a difference. I doubt they'd read it. Maybe change will come from everything breaking down and just going to shit, if we are lucky.

zoo

Under Bill Clinton more people were busted for possession of cannabis then under any President before him and good old Bill didn't lift a finger to stop it. Probably inserted that finger in a lot of places but he certainly didn't use it to hold a pen to stop the madness.

mondaymonkey

is the possession of cannabaniods illegal or is the actual plant material illegal?

What specific part of the plant is illegal to own, or is it all of it?

Questions like this you could raise to get yourself out of a possession if you had enough bank roll.