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Post by lemgirl on Sept 18, 2006 15:54:30 GMT -5
For my sister it started with pot then she graduated to cocaine, she would have been on heroine but she was scared of needles.
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Post by tsarina on Sept 18, 2006 15:56:57 GMT -5
The people I speak of have gambled with the hard stuff but moved away from it in their old age. What is it they call it? That pot leads to more destructive drugs? Yes, but not everyone stays on that road. Wild oats get sewn, and some people are able to move on before it seals their fate.
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Post by lemgirl on Sept 18, 2006 17:03:55 GMT -5
I don't know why drugs affect people so differently
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Post by qb on Sept 18, 2006 18:16:23 GMT -5
[/color] I am trying like hell to think of a reason to argue here. No, it was not a good thing, but I don't have a good argument to put with it. What about if a druggie buys a house for his mother and she has no idea that he used drug money to buy said house? The seizure laws can be misused and this would be an example. Also, when you own and drive a vehicle, you can be prosecuted and lose said vehicle if the passenger puts something under the seat. I had a druggy friend, though I didn't know it at the time, who would keep her stash under the passenger seat when I took us to clubs. She told me later!! I am sure the DC police would have gladly taken me to jail and taken my car for their own if we'd ever been stopped.
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Post by ISaidWhoaDangIt on Sept 19, 2006 11:04:01 GMT -5
[/color] What about if a druggie buys a house for his mother and she has no idea that he used drug money to buy said house? The seizure laws can be misused and this would be an example. Also, when you own and drive a vehicle, you can be prosecuted and lose said vehicle if the passenger puts something under the seat. I had a druggy friend, though I didn't know it at the time, who would keep her stash under the passenger seat when I took us to clubs. She told me later!! I am sure the DC police would have gladly taken me to jail and taken my car for their own if we'd ever been stopped.[/quote] My dad is a cop. He was on a stop not too long ago where this happened. Dude had another dude in the car with him. Driver dude was not using, but Passenger dude had hidden something (meth I think) under the front seat. Both were arrested. Driver Dude was able to go to court the next AM and have the charges dropped against him and got his car back after it was impounded.
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Post by striketeamwashere on Oct 5, 2006 14:01:10 GMT -5
In my group of friends, if we got pulled over and something was found in the car and it was yours, you fessed up to it and didn't let the drive take the fall.
On the house seizing subject since I don't think I've put my 2 cents in on this one, It was the right move. Family or not that was the policy they were inforcing at the time. As for the mom, if you kid buy you a house and doesn't have a job and didn't just hit the loot something shady is up. Seize that bitch and sell it. That is the only way the govt=. even has a chance of winning the war on drugs.
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Post by Strike Team 4 Life on Dec 5, 2006 14:23:06 GMT -5
It needed to be done. She decided to ignore the fact that her son had no steady job and was not an ideal citizen. She made a decision that let to tradgic circumstances. (sound familiar?)
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Post by ISaidWhoaDangIt on Dec 5, 2006 16:15:42 GMT -5
And she had to know where the money was coming from. Her DS wasn't employed and wasn't he a member of a gang? Chances are, he didn't win the lottery nor did Ed McMahon knock on his door with the prize patrol.
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Post by chemikalman on Dec 5, 2006 18:06:59 GMT -5
What really struck me as ironic as I re-read this thread is OJ's situation. He got his ass kicked in civil court but was not forced to give up his house, because the law says you don't have to give up your home in civil judgements. I suppose this is CA state law and in his case it makes me sick.
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Post by striketeamwashere on Dec 5, 2006 23:22:59 GMT -5
What really struck me as ironic as I re-read this thread is OJ's situation. He got his ass kicked in civil court but was not forced to give up his house, because the law says you don't have to give up your home in civil judgements. I suppose this is CA state law and in his case it makes me sick. I thought that was Florida.
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Post by chemikalman on Dec 5, 2006 23:47:38 GMT -5
What really struck me as ironic as I re-read this thread is OJ's situation. He got his ass kicked in civil court but was not forced to give up his house, because the law says you don't have to give up your home in civil judgements. I suppose this is CA state law and in his case it makes me sick. I thought that was Florida. Maybe it was the Florida home he bought after moving from Calif.--I dunno. I just read that he couldn't be forced to sell his home to pay off the money he owes as a result of the civil suit.
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Post by ShootFirst on Dec 6, 2006 12:54:17 GMT -5
I thought that was Florida. Maybe it was the Florida home he bought after moving from Calif.--I dunno. I just read that he couldn't be forced to sell his home to pay off the money he owes as a result of the civil suit. His staff of attorney's is smart enough to keep him paying only the minimum if anything at all. Gotta love those loopholes and that fine print.
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Post by ISaidWhoaDangIt on Dec 6, 2006 20:44:30 GMT -5
^ That only the rich enough know about.
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Post by chemikalman on Dec 6, 2006 21:56:10 GMT -5
How much ya wanna bet that none of those loopholes involve getting out of your legal fees?
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Post by striketeamwashere on Dec 7, 2006 0:37:27 GMT -5
How much ya wanna bet that none of those loopholes involve getting out of your legal fees? I think you could be found guilty and put on deathrow, and you'd still half to pay them.
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Post by misstriketeam on Mar 9, 2008 18:24:55 GMT -5
I thought it was a good thing. Her son still bought the house with drug money, and tehy simply can't allow that to happen. The mother said, "you don't know how it is here", but the fact is, Rowling is trying to change things. She wsa right to take the house and begin implementing her new policy right away instead of being lenient and not giving people the impression she couldn't back up what she said. I liked how she made the comparison to what Aceveda would have done. This must have been the first episode in a quite a while, if ever, that we never see Aceveda at all! I agree if you want a message to get out to all the drug dealers then you have to make stand and not let any of them slip by, she used the seizure at first as a threat but when the guy wouldnt cooperate then she held her word and took the house. really it was a no win situation the community hated her for it and the drug dealers hated her. Captain Rowlings was a no shit taker hard captain and that was perfect for Vic they were eachothers equals and i was glad to see them as partners, they worked great together and it is super sad that they let her go.
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