Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency

Re:Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency by bogomipz on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:06AM (#12398367)

No thats not the point. With LSD the paper is the unit of distribution. Its the dosage vector. A sheet of of acid which is comprised of 100 hits of acid. So by considering the amount of surface area or weight is what allows the law to decide if the amount comprises personal consumption vs distribution.

So when the law is trying to decide how much of a threat the contraband is to society the potential damage of a sheet of acid us much much greater than a hit or a couple of hits(smaller pieces of paper.)

What are you proposing that the acid be recovered from the paper? What would that do? There's no threshold below which you are permitted to posses lysergic acid in the United States.

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Re:Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency by Nursie on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:14AM (#12398430)

I'm not proposing anything, I'm suggestig that anything drawing an equivalent between weight of raw LSD and paper blotters is pants-on-head retarded.

Legislate penalty by doses if you want, but the fact remains that someone with ten mg of crystal is carrying with them just as many doses as someone carrying a few g of blotters.

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Re:Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency by michael_h on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:17AM (#12398455)

He is saying that 1g of LSD (when including the paper weight) is maybe a couple hundred doses, while 1g of meth in a plastic bag is ~10,000 doses, but they are sentenced as if they are equivalent.

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