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i think youre conflating drug users with drug dealers.
the dealers obviously need it for protection for carrying large sums of cash, and valuable items on their person
And what always gets me is law enforcement loves to show the drugs and money and guns together. Like people can't legitimately have guns and money without being dealers.
Might as well show how many cans of soup they had too.
"law enforcement officials today seized 250 pounds of marijuana today, along with 13 firearms and 275 cans of Progresso chunky style stew. Officials claim hoarding that much soup deprived needy food banks of essential resources. The soup is set to be destroyed with the rest of the evidence after the case comes to a close. Next up in weather Pact Nicely has some bad news for us in store for the weekend! Coming up right after this"
275 cans of Progresso chunky style stew
C'mon, we all know that's ridiculous! A normal human person would only buy 100 cans, and it has to be Campbell's.
i think they have to show the money for documentation, because they may have to give it back, if it's not profits from crimes. they will probably fight tooth and nail to keep it tho, because after a while the department may get to use it to buy new toys.
the guns may be illegal guns, depending on region. like if serial numbers got removed or the state allows only half automatics, but they are full, etc..
because they may have to give it back
BAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
give it back. Holy shit that's a good one.
yeah, unfortunately it's cosmically rare. but it shouldn't be.
So, sadly, unless you're proven innocent in court and your possessions are also proven innocent in court at a different trial that happens without you ever knowing about it, it's gone.
Any valuables, including money, jewelry, watches, your car, even your shoes, on you while you commit a crime are also guilty of that crime, and will be used for any police propose. The justification can be laughably thin, it just has to be there. "We auctioned his watch and his Nikes because he needed the watch to know what time to go to his drug deal, and he needed his shoes to get there."
Mind you, they can "prove" you are a drug dealer if you just have more drugs on you than a reasonable person would use in a single sitting.
So a guy goes to buy a week's worth of weed for himself, gets pulled over on the way home, he's a drug dealer now.
I can get this but I just keep reading of such and such was driving around and caught with lets say an ounce of weed and they are a felon and also get charged for felon in posession. Also I am mainly talking about small towns. If I knew how to link i could probably come up with at least 20 30 articles.
Could it be selection bias? You don't hear about the people with an illegal gun because that would likely just get quietly confiscated. You don't hear about someone possessing drugs because that's pretty normal. But if there are several crimes together it might make the news.
This is 100% the case.
If I knew how to link
All you have to do is paste the link in your comment, no special formatting required. If you want to make text that links to a story or w/e you do
[text](link)
It's just that you live in a country with too many guns.
Non-Violent drug users are less lilely to get caught up in the legal system, so you won't hear about it.
The media (movies, TV) would never depict someone just chilling and smoking weed, that's boring. So they always add guns, conflict, drama to highten the stakes.
When you're involved in drugs, you are pretty likely to regularly interact with sketchy people who make you feel unsafe for one reason or another. That goes for both dealers and consumers, though moreso on the dealer side.
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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