Teen finds 20 lbs of pot, turns it in

Gimme a break! And the positive effects of pointing a finger at someone saying 'idiot'? Three fingers pointing back at you.

However, since this was in USA, she was probably best to leave it there. They probably give you the death penalty for that sort of weight.

Besides, there are plenty of Rastafarians, and non-Rasta's who use marijuana almost like a vitamin.

Last time I was in JA, there was a tennis instructor who swore it gave him energy, and countless others who swore by it. They've been using it there along time, using it as slaves on the sugar plantations.

Try being a slave, and maybe you might find some positive effects in it too.

As to alcohol, I consider drunken sex as a teen-ager a 'positive benefit'. Mind you, there were those classmates who said 'I don't want to have sex ', and I'm still not sure if their abstinence was from their convictions, or some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Like Isaac Hayes sings:
"No matter what you do, you got to do your thing".

Also re: alcohol not being as 'positive' as Tony Robins.

Check this from SG's Drunken Face Album



Now tell me how that is anything but positive? I can only dream of having a pic of myself like that.

The smartest and safest thing for the girl to do would have been to leave the brick where she found it. She didn't solve any kind of social plight or neccesarily do a "good" thing by turning the weed in. The cops, fascists that they are, would have been happier with someone to bust. And there's probably some up and coming shwag dealer getting his/her head chainsawed off in a motel bathroom for loosing a $60000 brick of weed. I'll bet its hard to buy diapers for your infant daughter once your decapitated.

Hey NY is massive. There are cheaper vendors cept they add some extra stuff..like Martin Lawrence would say he had..an Ooowee!

[Edited on Dec 24, 2004 by Domnicella]

Damn straight. I was just about to say the same thing.. why has NOONE considered this option it seems like?

You take it and keep it, your asking for a world of hurt (esp. at 15 - hell, if her parents found it, let alone the cops..).. if you turn it in, your nothing but a dumbass patsy. Plus, there are RIGHTFUL OWNERS I am sure, regardless of their standing, that probably went through a lot of shit for that.

In fact, "I lost 20 pounds of pot" may get some dirt-poor border smuggler shot to death.

Way to go, you naieve stupid kid

She's just a good Christan kid..Im guessing.
Oh and nosey too.

Well it sounds like she was from a small town. In some, not all but some, , small towns the local cops are people you like and trust. Again the key factor seems to be she didn't know what it was she found. Personally I am happy when people turn in things I lost before someone else not as honest as them finds it.

Actually, there a lots of positive effects about alcohol, plenty to be gained by a night out drinking with your best friends. The benefits of intoxication don't have to be tangible to be valuable. But, again, I can't begin to explain that to you because you choose not to see.

"People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid." -Renton, Trainspotting

"Drugs arouse the powers of analogy, set objects in motion, make the world a vast poem shaped by rhymes and rhythms." Octavio Paz, Alternating Current

"And so, a piece of broken plaster, picked at random from the ruin of a building... for example... becomes, under the eye of the hashish smoker the repository of an aesthetic secret just as vivid and individual as the secret in the sculptured grain of a japanese netsuki, with its intricate carving out of some semi precious metal." -Alexander Trocchi, On Drugs

Auto-erotic asphyxiation has killed at least one person, right? That's one person more than marijuana has ever killed. And I don't mean, "She was driving, and she was hitting a bowl and she crashed and died," because by that logic, car stereos and cell phones are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

The little girl did what she was brainwashed to do. I can see how you might think that would be a good thing, but in reality, she destroyed someone else's valuable commodity for no good reason. Whether you choose to recognize that value is irrelevant, because it certainly had value to a lot of people, especially, I'm sure, the guy who lost it. And you and other people who have no experience with the real value of drugs should certainly never be the ones who get to make the decisions about that value for everyone else. Again, it's like if a bunch of eunuchs decided to pass a law banning masturbation.

if u were to sell it buy the pound thats $5000 a pound so 20lbs would be about $100,000

Cannabis use is directly responsible for the grand, and enormous, total, of ZERO deaths. EVER. In the entire of human history.

Very true. If I found a shoebox full of plants on the beach when I was too young to know about weed, I would have just left it there. Kids don't pick up trash without a good reason.

If I happened upon a 20 pound brick of any illegal drug I'd leave it the fuck alone.

That kind of weight carries a Federal felony posession with intent to distribute rap, IIRC. Serious time without parole. Also, the rightful owner is gonna be pissed and looking for satisfaction.

Your life is much less complicated when you simply don't get involved in such things. Words to live by.

Dude, if I lose my wallet I'd rather some honest soul give it to the cops rather than just leave it there for some not so honest soul to clean me out.

I think you underestimate how sheltered some people are. I was never once exposed to DARE in schools and the first time I saw a large quantity of pot it didn't look anything like what I had seen on TV or the already rolled joints that were my only other exposure to it. And I know a lot of adults who wouldn't recognize it either.

I cant believe this thread has been going on for 2 weeks.

Yeah, but what about all of those pointless and unending Grateful Dead / Phish / Your-Favorite-Jam-Band-Here guitar solos? Those have to count as SOME kind of crime against humanity.

Those are cancelled out by the oeuvre of Mr. Jimi Hendrix, I believe.

[Edited on Dec 25, 2004 by James_]

Depends on what you consider direct. Is usage/the effect of the drug the explicit defintion of "responsible for"? Or would my best friend since childhood, who was shot to death over a shorted bag of pot, count as pot's responsibility? What about the pack of kids I went to school with who got hotboxed in a stolen car, then tried to take off despite not knowing how to drive a standard and getting themselves killed after running a light? How do you know that NOONE has ever had a fatal asthmha (cant spell tonight!) attack from not being able to drop the habit and taking that final hit?

directly responsible refers to death as a resut of the primary effects of a drug, i.e. overdose.

Pot was maybe indirectly responsible maybe for the first of those, but the second was due to stupidity and an asthma attack would be death caused by asthma not cannabis.

[Edited on Dec 25, 2004 by James_]

did you really laugh at that?

no wonder Full House was on for so long...

If I found 20 lbs of pot, I guess I would be one stoned mother fucker.
At my price of 25.00 a 1/4 it would be around 32,000 I think could be worng, now I got the munchies.

merry christmas