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Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by jetti on Monday August 06, 2012 @03:01PM (#4346645)
"In other words, he got off a lot easier than a 19 year old carrying a bag of weed would on the West Side of Chicago."

Proud to say that Chicago has de-criminalized small amounts of Marijuana. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-28/news/ct-met-ch...)

Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by tptacek on Monday August 06, 2012 @03:08PM (#4346684)
Marijuana law in Chicago remains a tool by which the police can arbitrarily take people off the streets. Dealing weed remains a felony. The thresholds at which possession becomes intent remain arbitrary.

I am sympathetic to the police here (there are probably many very good public policy reasons to get West Side dealers off the street) but the law itself is a bit of a clusterfuck.