Mike Clayton went to Christian Life. Although he was a great athlete in high school and college, He was a college kid and not an angel...
If you drink alcohol at all, and think pot should be illegal, you are a hypocrite. Period. There is no reconciling the fact that you can get drunk and tell people they can't get stoned. Yeah, it's illegal. Just because it's illegal doesn't make it bad or wrong. Legalize it and then come at me with your "Pot is bad, but I'm gonna go get liquored up and lose my inhibitions and judgement". No comparison, alcohol is far worse than weed. Wanna get weed out of kids hands? Legalize it and sell it like alcohol. It is far easier for a 15 year old to buy pot than liqour from the Circle K. The only reason there is the crime associated with drugs is because prohibition has made it so lucrative. I'm sorry, but I frame my opinions in the mold of the founding fathers, and I would be awefully shocked if Thomas Jefferson intended for the government to regulate what people put into their bodies in their own homes. If you smoke weed, drive, and hurt someone, yeah you should be punished. But it is inexusable that our government assaults the homes of citizens in the middle of the night with paramilitary flashbang grenades because they are suspected of having a plant with intoxicating properties. I don't smoke weed (anymore), but the prohibition of marijuana is one of the stupidest laws we have, hands down. Our drug policy is a failure, and after 40 years, billions of dollars, and countless numbers of deaths, drugs are cheaper, more available, more potent then ever. If anyone can honestly say that our drug policy is working and reasonable, I say you have your head up your @$$. Claude, you shouldn't have let them search your car. That cop had no reason to go poking around your vehivcle. Sorry, but there is no way he would've had it in plain view. Maybe in plain view if you open the trunk. If he had it on the dashboard, yeah, that was dumb. But I don't trust that a police officers definition of "plain view" is going to be in line with what a normal civilian would consider it. I consider Claude a victim of our stupid freaking government and all of you sheeple who feel like the government is wise in poking it's nose into what a football player choses to put into his lungs. Who was he hurting? I'd say he was doing pretty well for himself, despite the debilitating, insanity inducing effects of that darn evil marijuana plant. Let the red dots come, but I am right. Go pour yourself another glass of whiskey, lose your mind, and go beat your wives or something if you don't agree. Yeah, and Auburn sucks.
I can't tell if your saying this for my knowledge or not, but just in case you are - I already knew that.
Dude, you need to chill a bit. I agree with you that the government pokes it's nose into everybody's affairs way too much, and that the laws regulating pot are pretty ridiculous and hypocritical when given that alcohol is legal. But Claude Wroten is NOT a victim of the system or The Man or any other name you want to assign the law. The fact of the matter is, RIGHT NOW, grass is illegal. It's the system we live under. He knew that. He chose to try to get around it, and he got caught. You can't just cherry-pick which laws you're going to obey and which ones you aren't. You think a law is bad? Work a little harder to get it changed, then. But until you do, there are consequences for illegal actions, whether you think they should be legal or not.
He is right here. They cant search your car for no reason and I am pretty sure he didn't just "forget" he had the weed in "plain view". He should have just denied the search--you can do that.
Eh, not exactly. Technically you do, in reality - you don't. Courts generally hold that a cop can search any area in your car that is within arm's reach of the driver's seat. That means basically the only things they can't search are the trunk, and the glove box but only if it's locked.
Also, technically speaking, the cop has cause to detain you on the speeding charge long enough to obtain a warrant if he feels a full search is necessary. I've had cop buddies tell me that technically, they can actually arrest anybody for speeding...traffic tickets are generally issued as a public courtesy.
