Perhaps that's a mistake on your part grouping individual people with individual ideas and opinions together.All this ranting and raving while his far left radical brethren are on another thread defending a law outlawing large sodas. UnFucking believable!
you do realize padawan that in some countries simply having drugs in your system is enough for arrest under the guise of possession, ie, abu dhabi.. they don't care when it was ingested or how much and whether someone accidentily stuck a needle full of heroin in your arm while you weren't looking or if you did it yourself..
That's semantics. It's exactly the tactic I'd expect Spitzer to use. You and I both know that while it may not be illegal to have drugs in your system (because there is no way to prove you purposefully put them in your body, when, or how much), it is illegal to posses, transport or manufacture them, which is all that is needed to arrest people, as the statistics show.
IOW, it doesn't matter if "using" drugs is illegal because everything else tied to them is, and anyone who uses them is likely in violation of the written law.
No I wasn't aware of that. I guess that's one thing the US got right, then. Innocent until proven guilty.you do realize padawan that in some countries simply having drugs in your system is enough for arrest under the guise of possession, ie, abu dhabi.. they don't care when it was ingested or how much and whether someone accidentily stuck a needle full of heroin in your arm while you weren't looking or if you did it yourself..
Innocent until proven Guilty is in the code of Hammurabi, dating from 1700 BC, so like almost 4000 years ago, its nothing new.No I wasn't aware of that. I guess that's one thing the US got right, then. Innocent until proven guilty.
It hasn't taken much of an effect up until fairly recentlyInnocent until proven Guilty is in the code of Hammurabi, dating from 1700 BC, so like almost 4000 years ago, its nothing new.
All this ranting and raving while his far left radical brethren are on another thread defending a law outlawing large sodas. UnFucking believable!
So you just threw some shit out there hoping it would stick? Are you related to Romney?Yeah you got me there
having a drug in your body is being in possession of that drug, smarty. check the law.It's not illegal to use drugs dude. Check the laws, they only make possession, operating under the influence of, manufacturing,or facilitating in their trade illegal. Ever got popped on a piss test? Did a cop come and arrest you?
if i drew a line from the start of that graph to the end of that graph, the line slopes upwards.It has gone down.
both ridiculous hypotheses.I was wrong about that, but this is pretty interesting...
- One hypothesis suggests a causal link between legalized abortion and the drop in crime during the 1990s.[SUP][8][/SUP]
- Another hypothesis suggests reduced lead exposure as the cause; Scholar Mark A.R. Kleiman writes: "Given the decrease in lead exposure among children since the 1980s and the estimated effects of lead on crime, reduced lead exposure could easily explain a very large proportion—certainly more than half—of the crime decrease of the 1994-2004 period. A careful statistical study relating local changes in lead exposure to local crime rates estimates the fraction of the crime decline due to lead reduction as greater than 90 percent.
It looks like the question is - what happened around 1990 that led to a decrease in total violent crimes?if i drew a line from the start of that graph to the end of that graph, the line slopes upwards.
What makes you say that?both ridiculous hypotheses.
could make a better case that crime goes up when the economy is down and vice versa.