• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    as I understand it, any delivery point that belongs to you can be traced back to your name.

    Pretty much yeah.

    The defense I used here in Finland was that since you can’t trace who sent it and there’s no verified money traffic from me to a drug dealer, they can’t really prove it’s me.

    If I knew your address, I could send you a bag of drugs. Would that make you a criminal? Even if you didn’t want it? If it does, then shouldn’t I just mail anyone I don’t like in the US some weed, basically?

    My point is I don’t know how the laws about that sort of thing work over there, but I knew how they worked here, so I was at customs several times telling them I don’t know shit about any drugs that came to my address. They knew that I knew that they knew that I knew that they knew. You know? But it didn’t matter the slightest, because there was no way of connecting me to the drug order. I think I even bought the bitcoin from my account, but it’s like if you had taken out cash at an atm. Ofc drugs are bought with cash, but factually connecting you taking cash from your account to you using it to buy drugs is something they have a hard time doing.

    But yeah, I knew how these things worked here. They just always had to drop the charges despite it being extremely clear I was guilty, because no evidence. So I’m not gonna suggest anything for you, as the sentences are a bit harsher for all drug things in the US. Well, except for weed, since it’s legal in some states. Even though it’s still illegal on the federal level. Crazy.

    • Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      29 days ago

      Yeah it’s legal in Colorado and I had some fun with it while I was there. But now in Texas even though I’m of legal age I cannot get access to weed legally (except for delta-8, but they’re trying to ban that too). And that also means the quality of weed is much, much worse. The smell of good quality legal weed from the boutique dispensaries in CO are very pleasant and calming to me, but I absolutely cannot stand the smell or taste of the “skunky” stuff, which in my experience pretty much all illegal weed tends to be. So I don’t have much interest in obtaining weed in Texas, especially because I don’t plan on staying here. My current plan is to get a degree and get out of the country, ideally move tosomewhere in Europe. Not sure exactly where yet, but I’ve narrowed down a list with the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, and Switzerland currently at the top (and yeah ik weed isn’t legal in all those places either but from what I’ve seen the punishments seem to be far less severe). So I’m not really chomping at the bit to get access to drugs right now, though it’d sure be nice if more things were legal here.