By SJ Otto
Recently in Wichita
we see the desperation by police who realize their reign of terror with
marijuana laws may be over soon. They attacked local stores, this last week,
for selling so called "drug paraphernalia."
The state passed a law, In 2008, against selling products
designed to use illegal drugs. The city also has one. There were also
crackdowns on city head shops in 2010. But today many of the places the police
have focused on are the new vape shops that sell equipment for e-cigs. It turns
out that the equipment can also be used for drugs. But by that definition a shovel
can be used to plant marijuana and is also a form of drug paraphernalia. This
whole set of laws were ludicrous from the start. They only way to tell what a
product is being sold for is the advertizing or if it has a picture of a drug
on it, such as a pipe with a picture of a marijuana leaf.
Since this effort by the police began, some smoke shops plan
to shut down, according to The
Wichita Eagle. They had nothing to do with drugs. They were making
money off of the new e-cig craze.
The Wichita Eagle
also cited a rise in drug using equipment which may be a product of the
legalization of marijuana in Colorado and
because if states such as California
legalizing it for medicine.
The bottom line here is that marijuana prohibition is one
its way out. It took me a life-time to see it come, but it is almost here. It
should have happened years ago. These local police actions are those of desperate
people who just can't accept the changes.
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