What's the most legally grey situation you've ever been in? (lemm.ee)

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[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

A judge paid me cash to paint their courtroom gray

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

This sounds like a song lyric I may have to steal

[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Don't steal, I give it freely

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Aww open source 💚

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I'm in South Africa: purchasing cannabis products on the clearnet. The law is, you're allowed to have cannabis on your own property, up to like 1.2kg or something few people can reasonably accumulate. You can grow 4 plants.

You can provide cannabis as a gift without "remuneration". i.e. you can't buy or sell it

Meaning, you join a "social club" where your spontaneous membership fees coincidentally directly correlate to the THC metabolite concentration in your urine. This is the legal grey area.

But the cops here are still stupid fucking cops. Got a bag of 4g Jack Herer in a Ziploc bag with beautiful artwork on it on the way home from the dispensary?

SIR YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR THE DEALING OF DRUGS. You either pay a stupid bribe or they throw you in jail for a night or a weekend until a lawyer can come bail you out and the case never goes to trial.

They did not do enough police reform after the official end of apartheid.

[-] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

1.2kg of cannabis would be like a lifetime supply for me. That's a cumbersome amount of pot.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 6 points 8 months ago

Nice try FBI. You aren't fooling me.

[-] jared@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Like they'd have to ask.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 8 months ago

In legal grey areas intent is often what sets apart whether something's a crime or not. So you admitting knowing it's kinda illegal might be tipping point. In short, the original comment is right: nice try, FBI.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 8 months ago

Glowies are everywhere

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When I was 11 my dad allowed me to drive. It was a quiet road down a forested mountain at night, and I learned two things:

My dad trusted me enough to drive down this mountain road at night, and driving a car is surprisingly easy

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago

Less of a grey area and just seems illegal

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Dad was drunk, I suspect

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Once I had a brief interaction with some BLM officials while I was tripping balls. They were only concerned about my safety though, and didn’t care that I was on drugs.

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

What is a Black Lives Matter Official?

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Lol, I was like: what, Black Lives Matter is anti-drug??

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Psychedelics are exclusionary by their very nature because only those with immense privilege will have the best trips /s

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago

Blm?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 8 months ago

Bureau of Land Management most likely. Land you can camp on for free, OP was probably in a van, bus, or RV.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Big Limber Male officials.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago

Bureau of Land Management

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

That makes more sense than what I thought initially

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

These guys are wrong. It was a black lives matter official.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I knew it

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Can't tell, because I am very good at forgetting such things.

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