[Mpls] Hood Pot Market to relocate DT; RT hopes gang violence aba tes; Hardcore Commute?

[rhalfhill at juno.com]

   Sorry.  I forgot to spell check before sending the previous copy.

   If otherwise law abiding citizens are flouting the law by purchasing marijuana in large numbers, perhaps that indicates the law is one of those ineffectual victimless crime laws that needs to be repealed and that concerned citizens should focus on repealing the law rather than focusing on goody two shoes mayoral exhortations to obey the law.  (Oh sure!  The Law giveth and the Law taketh away.  Blessed be the name of the Law.  Obey it without question, whether it is just or unjust.)
   There would be no crime and violence associated with marijuana if it were legal and could be sold and purchased through legal outlets.  Although there are illegal liquor sales to the under 18 market, businesses illegally selling to the under 18 market have not led to the crime and violence that resulted under prohibition.
   Another point.  If the status offense laws against under age purchases of tobacco were really enforced, society would be unable to afford to build enough places to hold the law violators.  That indicates we should repeal all status offense laws, i.e. laws that criminalize an action that would not be illegal if the law violators were over a certain arbitrary age.  We need the compulsory school attendance laws because we already have too many problems resulting from people reaching adulthood without even a high school education.  But the laws against underage purchase of tobacco cannot be enforced, are not now being enforced and no more harm than already results from underage consumption would happen under repeal than allready happens since the laws are not and cannot be enforced anyway.  This is another matter that should be left for families to handle and in which the law cannot and should not be involved.
    Robert Halfhill   Loring Park    

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