[TheForge] local codes OT OT

[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:

> I had my documentation in order they agreed, asked to see the plants..I 
> showed them...they complemented me on the job i'd done and cut them all 
> down and loaded them up in their truck. One of the guys cut several buds 
> with his leatherman and put them in his pocket while looking me in the 
> eye. Everybody was very polite.

	CA has so changed since 76.  Couldn't pay me to live there anymore - 
though it can be pleasant enough to visit.

> They pointed out that it was still a fed crime and i could fight it if i 
> wanted to, but they'd just turn it over to the feds. Said they'd let me 
> know if they were going to charge me, and drove away. On request i 
> provided my extensive medical documentation...cancer survivor, screwed 
> up back, history of depression, etc, etc.
> A couple of months later i got a letter saying they weren't going to 
> prosecute but that the green pot had deteriorated in the evidence locker 
> and they'd tossed it. Things being what they are, it was probably sold 
> out the back door.

	Of course it was.  Does LE get any more corrupt than in the Golden State?

> When i was younger, i would have fought it out to the end. Perhaps i'm a 
> bit closer to grown up now.

	Just smarter.  You'd never win.  In addition you would almost certainly 
go to prison, cancer or not.  Those people have no souls - in fact they 
are not even human, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. 
I'd call them reptiles, but the insult to reptiles would be unconscionable.