Blacksheep Speaks

Overposession Laws and You

If you have a police scanner, you have almost certainly heard someone being arrested for overpossession of some item or another. Has it ever occurred to you to wonder about that, and how it might affect you?

I don't drink, and I certainly do not manufacture drugs, so many people feel I have no right or reason to comment on this. To them, I say, with all due respect, kiss my butt. The overpossession laws can and do affect people making perfectly legitimate purchases all the time.

Has it occurred to you that these laws, like many othes in the past, leave a WHOLE lot of room for abuse by officials? Suppose you have a bar in your house, for example. Many people do, for entertaining. My parents did. Are you aware that if you should choose to stock your bar all at once and happen to get stopped by the police, the liklihood is that you are going to jail AND they will confiscate the liquer you just paid for as well? Or, suppose you like to stock up on cold medicies. My mother always kept some of everything, just in case. TRY buying more than one box of cold capsules that contain ephedrin. Have fun.

With very little change, these laws can easily be applied to about anything. Overpossesion laws can and do harm law abiding consumers, and they belong in a communist world, not a free one.