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Weed Van Bronx NY

As New York State at a snail pace is trying to set up the legal sale of recreational Marijuana with the first dispensaries are opening up some like the owner of this van decide to take the mobile route which most certainly means a much lower overhead. What makes it ridiculous is all the billions over the last fifty plus years the US has spent arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating people for a substance that will be legal in most states in a few years. Back when I was young I knew friends that weren't as fast in outrunning the cops going to the Queens House of Dentation of even the infamous violent hellhole Riker's Island for small amounts of this drug. One nightmarish story that I remember making national news was back in the late sixties or early seventies was some poor hippie getting arrested for the possession of one joint in some dunghole redneck county being convicted by a "layman judge" who called him a pusher and was sentenced him to twenty years in prison. Never heard any follow up on that story but upon researching this there have many been such stories of someone serving such insane long terms and almost always in certain low ranking states that need not be mentioned.

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Uploaded on February 9, 2023
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