Drug paraphernalia was decriminalized in the state, even if it contains drug residue, but the reform did not change an existing law that treats bong water as a controlled substance.
  • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    5 months ago

    bong containing water that tested positive for methamphetamine was found in her car.

      • DancingBear@midwest.socialEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        30 years? You down voters can bite me. If the product is pure and she was a drug dealer I still say so what.

        Addiction is not a crime. Our community being such low level that we have literal crack heads and schizophrenia diagnosed people, members of our communities without a place to even sleep, let alone live in peace and find themselves and heal, this is the criminal act.

    • Mikufan@ani.socialEnglish
      86·
      5 months ago

      This should be higher up. Still not cool to send people to prison 30 years for this, but waaaaay more understandable.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        Not that it’s still agreeable, but sentencing guidelines seem to suggest 7 years for a guilty on the charge.30 years is an absolute max. Given the variables of the details and lawyers involved, a diversion program with a suspended sentence seems possible to me as a semi-informed layperson.

        So yeah, if you are of strong view that possession of drugs including meth should be legal (and I know some people are) and you understand that 7 years or less is what is the likely punishment, I think informed resistance to that can be valid. Unfortunately the article title (and it being posted in a weird news community here) is trying to frame it as “pot water = 30 years” for anyone who just skims.

        • Mikufan@ani.socialEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          Its not my view it just makes a lot more sense than “woman goes to prison for 30 years because bong water”