5 Ways to Avoid Getting Busted for Pot

My Story:

I don't use pot, which is my best defense against ever getting arrested for possession. I never have and since I'm fifty years old, I probably never will. I'm not much for altered states. Hell, I rarely drink and never when I'm driving, and it's usually just during the holidays anyway. But, in spite of this, I'm against this drug war, because I see it as a war on minorities, especially young black males. Drug laws started out as blatantly racist in this country and still continue to be. For what? The weeds smokers in my life have always been the most laid back, non-confrontational people that I've ever known. While it's true for me that I can't stand the smell of the stuff, the only other non-olfactory offense that I've ever seen them commit would be on an assault on a bag of munchies.

Smoking weed does not make anyone more dangerous than they already are.

Another thing too, most of the weed smokers that I've ever seen have been white males, especially white males who smoke weed in public with impunity. I've been to many a reggae concert in my day and for a while there, it appeared to me that the ONLY reason that young white males would even show up at a reggae concert wasn't to appreciate good music as I did, but to use it as a ready excuse to smoke dope. I'll bet you, dollars to donuts, that none of those guys (most were clean cut) felt that they were in any danger of being profiled by the cops as they walked the streets, to be stopped and searched and then arrested for weed.

It's my understanding that the majority of narcotics users are actually white males. So, why is there an inordinate amount of attention on young, poor minorities? Passing up the higher concentration demographic certainly looks like a racist, classist policy, that's because it is. Even a blind person can see this.

Now it's true that I'll never be arrested for possession, I never possess. But frankly, I wish that this country would just legalize it. As a black male, frankly I have no desired to be profiled because of the stupid drug laws we have in this country and the unfair and racist way that they're implemented. We all know that white addicts with money go to rehab and poor black users go to jail. Welcome to America, baby.

However, during my time in Europe, I never saw those cops hassle anybody. What a pleasant surprise, that was. Here, harassment is mandatory if you're a cop. That's why I avoid them like the plague, even if I never do anything wrong. I don't need the aggravation and these days I walk with open eyes.

Legalizing it should give them less of a reason to hassle people in general (and minorities specifically) and then perhaps they can move on to policing something else that's more dangerous instead… Like Jaywalking.