America: Should the war on marijuana go on?
It has been well established by the legal status of marijuana in four states and D.C. that war launched by other states on marijuana is reckless and worthless. While these regions permit the state-licensed growing and sales, silly yet damaging attacks have been launched by states and localities that are still waging the war on pot. This one sided war is not just a bad public policy but also injustice to those who do not even qualify to be alleged with certain misdemeanors.
With all these hasty endeavors that law departments are undertaking, the question that arises is simple.
Is marijuana really dangerous?
Many articles, campaigns and legalization backers have asserted the innocuous impacts of marijuana on the public. It has been called a peace-mantra by the defenders not because they are devoted to marijuana smoking but because they believe in its benevolence. But there have been instances where the law has shown exact opposite reactions to marijuana on people.
The Vagina Search
This happened in Texas, where only more than 4 ounces of marijuana can bring lawbreaking charges. A deputy with Harris County Sherrif’s department pulls a car over after suspecting the smell of marijuana making the search as extensive as probing the suspect’s vagina. Charnesia Coly, 21 was forced on the ground at a gas station and penetrated to search for the evidence which even if stored into her vagina would clearly not amount above the permitted quantity. Later, the evidence presented was 0.02 ounces of marijuana “on her” as the police claimed, but there is no evidence to back it up. These officials probe a women’s vagina to restrict her from even carrying a permissible amount of marijuana for personal use. Moreover, this happened without warrant based on smell senses of one deputy. This is one of those stories that are making the simple lives of common people more complicated.
Bottom line
Even the suspicion of presence of a highly “dangerous” drug catches such interrogations which violate basic human dignity. This drug is, for the record, legal in many states in USA. A drug like marijuana is actually believed to be even outside the scope of “target drugs” of the drug war. Such acts of enforcing law over marijuana cause more harm to the society than drug itself is framed to cause.
Just like for speeding there are no federally enforced limits to consider, for marijuana investigations there are no blank checks as well. Because when it comes to marijuana, federals cannot intrude and investigate violations of rights.
