On my local news a few weeks back someone was arrested for selling a look-alike substance. What’s up with that
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He was arrested for selling stuff that looked like marijuana. Why is that even a crime? I don’t understand. I mean who got hurt here besides the dumbass who paid the 500 dollars for what he thought was genuine yet illegal drugs?. Pretty clever I think. And what’s the difference between him profiting from emtrapment and those sting operations police are on all the time to try and catch drug dealers and *** offenders on-line. Granted, their intentions are to save lives and not simply make a profit from naive individual but it’s still hypocritical to me. If it’s illegal for us to use those tactics it should be for them too. Now I’m talking about person to person here, not businesses trying to sell counterfeit stuff. That’s different. You buy some random thing from some guy off the street you do so at your own risk. If it helps, this story took place about a week ago Indianapolis so hopefully that helps.Thank you very much for any help
Has no one heard of this crime before? I suppose it would help maybe if I remembered what he used to make the fake marijuana but it isn’t all that important really. The point still is, he made and sold what looked like marijuana to some guy and got in trouble for it. I don’t understand why.
MARIANO
He was arrested for selling stuff that looked like marijuana. Why is that even a crime? I don’t understand. I mean who got hurt here besides the dumbass who paid the 500 dollars for what he thought was genuine yet illegal drugs?. Pretty clever I think. And what’s the difference between him profiting from emtrapment and those sting operations police are on all the time to try and catch drug dealers and *** offenders on-line. Granted, their intentions are to save lives and not simply make a profit from naive individual but it’s still hypocritical to me. If it’s illegal for us to use those tactics it should be for them too. Now I’m talking about person to person here, not businesses trying to sell counterfeit stuff. That’s different. You buy some random thing from some guy off the street you do so at your own risk. If it helps, this story took place about a week ago Indianapolis so hopefully that helps.Thank you very much for any help
Has no one heard of this crime before? I suppose it would help maybe if I remembered what he used to make the fake marijuana but it isn’t all that important really. The point still is, he made and sold what looked like marijuana to some guy and got in trouble for it. I don’t understand why.
MARIANO
January 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
CLARENCE
There are laws against it in some jurisdictions. It can be considered a consumer fraud, or a drug-related offense, on the theory that the seller is attracting people who are looking for (and may find) illegal substances.