Thread: Should Have Been More Than a Warning

Originally Posted by timattalon

Well Naaaa. It is still currently illegal. As such, if you are prepared to break the law in this manner, then will you comply with other laws that are of similar importance in your mind? That then becomes a slippery slope towards no longer being a fit and proper person.

Now before anyone says it is silly for weed to be illegal or give the many reasons as to why weed should not be illegal, I have no problem with weed itself, and nothing against those who use it. (For whatever reason). But if you feel that because it is a "silly" law for it to be illegal and decide that it is actually OK to smoke weed, bear in mind that this is still breaking the law. What if someone decided another law was silly? Does that mean we get to decide which laws to obey and where do we draw the line? At the end of it all there is one line. Legal / Illegal and that line makes a large part of the decisions that are used to determine "fit and proper". One side has a record, and one does not.

In this particular case, there was no way of determining whether any law had been broken, silly or not. Thus no further action other than a warning to advise that keeping out of these situations may be a better course of action in the future.....

Sure it's illegal, I didn't suggest it wasn't. But because I think it's stupid for weed to be illegal.
Just like I thought it was stupid that it was illegal 2 people of the same sex couldn't get married.
Just like I thought it was stupid that it was illegal for women to vote.
DOESN'T mean I'm prone to thinking drinking and shooting shouldn't be illegal, or any other real issue is stupid, therefore making me likely to break a law that causes real issue.