Comments on: Drugs & Discrimination http://elliottback.com/wp/drugs-discrimination/ Internet & Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Diana Trimble http://elliottback.com/wp/drugs-discrimination/#comment-2199113 Diana Trimble Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:24:56 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/?p=1210#comment-2199113 I first became aware of this nifty piece of law when I lived in Oakland California and was subjected to a brutal drug raid due to a nasty landlord situation. Tho I had very little of prosecutorial value, they tried to slap me with everything they could think of and when one of the young rookie cops looked out my front window and noticed a primary school across the road he could hardly contain his excitement as he got to book me on another charge. It was beyond ridiculous. I had absolutely no contact with the school other than being a neighbour and am quite sure that they were far more traumatized by seeing the nice lady across the street get hauled away by cops, along with a bunch of house plants (?) than they ever would have been had I been left alone to mind my own business! I first became aware of this nifty piece of law when I lived in Oakland California and was subjected to a brutal drug raid due to a nasty landlord situation. Tho I had very little of prosecutorial value, they tried to slap me with everything they could think of and when one of the young rookie cops looked out my front window and noticed a primary school across the road he could hardly contain his excitement as he got to book me on another charge. It was beyond ridiculous. I had absolutely no contact with the school other than being a neighbour and am quite sure that they were far more traumatized by seeing the nice lady across the street get hauled away by cops, along with a bunch of house plants (?) than they ever would have been had I been left alone to mind my own business!

]]> By: Drugsblogger http://elliottback.com/wp/drugs-discrimination/#comment-19811 Drugsblogger Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:09:08 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/?p=1210#comment-19811 Hi, We don't have this piece of draconian legislation in the UK - yet. And it's our experience that a) Kids tend not to take drugs to school if they use them, it's just too public and b) dealers don't deal near schools - same reason. So to introduce something like this would be a pointless piece of law resulting in precisely the problem you cite for our minority communities. Nice piece Hi,

We don’t have this piece of draconian legislation in the UK – yet. And it’s our experience that a) Kids tend not to take drugs to school if they use them, it’s just too public and b) dealers don’t deal near schools – same reason. So to introduce something like this would be a pointless piece of law resulting in precisely the problem you cite for our minority communities.

Nice piece

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