What will this look like 20 years from now when marijuana is decriminalised? I always wonder that when seeing these sad stories. How will our future selves view the ignorance of the past in regards to drug laws?<p>Even 5 years ago I never thought gay marriage had a chance in America. But now it seems like just a matter of time and entirely obvious. There will come a tipping point with drugs laws in America where marijuana decriminalization seems equally inevitable. Unfortunately we still have a ways to go.
He still made it to SXSW.<p>His talk (audio only) can be found here: <a href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992467" rel="nofollow">http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992467</a>
Ruining people's lives for no reason at all. Completely nonsensical, but then again when things like this baffle me I get reminded of humanity's past (and present) - gladiators, slaves, genocide, ritual sacrifice, lynching, witch-hunts, genital mutilation, whatever...and things like this no longer seem so bad in comparison.<p>But I lose significant faith in humanity.
This iClarified link is a summary of a much longer article from Above the Law that seems to be the commom source of all current stories (which also means this really should be considered uncorroborated).<p><a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2012/03/famed-hacker-arrested-for-pot-possession-en-route-to-sxsw/" rel="nofollow">http://abovethelaw.com/2012/03/famed-hacker-arrested-for-pot...</a>
I got busted for smoking weed in public in Eugene, Oregon. I walked away with a ticket. I had a 1/8th on me at the time.<p>The ticket was ten dollars more then the weed that was confiscated.
Sounds like when weev got raided in Fayetteville, AR and they found his (small) stash of drugs by the computer, too. The local drug charges were dropped eventually.
I grew up in Arizona and Border Patrol is <i>everywhere</i> down south. It looks like Geohot ran into a permanent checkpoint. Seems like a really poor choice.
Hopefully he knows some lawyers. The article mentions some oddities about the search.<p>I don't take cannabis (and I wouldn't even if it was legal) but I recognise the current status is causing considerable harm; both to people like Geohot getting caught with tiny amounts and to people in Mexico being killed in drug-gang wars.
Some people are using this post as an opportunity to bash Texas, but the article says he was arrested by DHS (federal authorities) in Seirra Blanca, which is in New Mexico. This doesn't have anything to do with Texas.
I agree current laws are crap. But isn't is possible for someone to refrain while traveling to avoid such a circumstance? And no, medical use is crapola - folks treat this like some miracle drug.
What an unfortunate choice of picture for that article.<p>Also, what a trumped up set of charges. I had a friend just tell me the other day about some hippies that got locked up because they were charged by the weight of their edibles. What a fucking waste of time, money and prosecution of perfectly good members of society.
Haha! I was listening to the song "Young wild and free" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk</a> just now =P
I am constantly amazed that people seem so surprised that when people break the law, they get in trouble.<p>Just because you don't like a law, doesn't mean you should be surprised when, like so many people before them, people get caught for breaking it.<p>I often wonder if I am the only person in the tech world who wouldn't mind much higher penalties for possessions of narcotics, instead of this current "illegal, but most of the time not really" business. I'd be fine with legalisation too, I just wish the law would go heavily one way or the other.