I was almost arrested

[salinen]

But instead, the Fuzz made me pour out my weed and warned me not to do it again. Oh, that was in 1971. What do they do nowadays?

[MineralMan]

1. Depends where you are, really.

There's not a lot of folks out hunting for people who are smoking it. Many places have decriminalized possession of small quantities. District attorneys aren't that interested, in most case, either. In some parts of the country, though, possession of an ounce or so for personal use is still something that can get you busted.

[madmax]

3. Back in the 70's my neighbor a city detective

would confiscate the pot. Then we'd sit on his porch and smoke it.

Today he's Chief of Police of a 60k towm in Central NJ. Nice...

[Bluenorthwest]

8. In fact, while georgraphy is major, there are more arrests for

simple possession now than ever before. To actually answer the OP, I'd have to know where he lives, and also his ethnic make up, as white folk like me have near impunity compared to Latino and black people. We smoke way more, they get arrested way more. And it is a serious problem. California is the only state where under an ounce is across the board a non arresting offense. The only one. The only one where it does not go on your record if it is not medical, but just some pot you have. And that has only been the case since Jan 1.
Other than geographic variations, the rest of what you say is not correct, and of course, not supported with any specifics or links. We have been through this before, so you know that more are arrested now than 10 years ago. You also know about the racial disparity, because I told you myself.
Peace.

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[azurnoir]

4. Depends on the 'Fuzz'

some turn a blind eye and some go for for broke on it, I know someone who years ago was pulled over with 1/4lb and the cop told him to "roll himself a couple joints" and simply took the rest, no ticket or anything else ecept a cop who had just apparently gotten himself a stash

[Fuzz]

15. Wasn't me

[Atman]

5. I lived in a small town (an island, actually), and the cops...

...were usually my friends' older brothers or sisters. They'd "confiscate" the weed, and we would just wind up smoking it with them the next weekend. Those were definitely different times. I even went home with my art teacher one day (who was also a friend's older brother ) during class to toke up. He left his TA in charge, said we were going to pick up some art supplies. Holy shit...can't necessarily say it's a bad thing that this is frowned upon these days.

:smoke:

[snooper2]

6. same thing happened to me in 2008

depends on the copper you get..

What the situation is..

lots of factors

[Tippy]

7. They lock you up...and throw away the key.....

[damntexdem]

9. Probably make you give it to them so they could smoke it themselves.

jus guessin

[Atman]

10. There's a larger issue...it's OUR FUCKING GENERATION...

...that's putting in place all these fucked up laws. We all survived the seventies just fine. The people who were the class geeks and the outcasts wound up running for political office (disclaimer: I was Senior Class President '77 -- but I was elected on the Stoner platform) and are now outlawing everything and trying to make up for the "injustices" done to them when they were in high school.

[salinen]

12. Hippies becoming

Yuppies. Yuck.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. I had bags dumped more times than I care to remember

that was just the way things were.

[salinen]

13. That's because you're a stoner

You can't remember how many dumped bags. kiddin.

[seabeyond]

14. i wasnt almost arrest. the cop gave us a six pack to go with it and we were 18

lol

in calif

'80

sittin in a park

[msanthrope]

16. Depends on the cop, just like the 70s. Often, they 'confiscate,' i.e. add to their personal stash.

[BobbyBoring]

17. I wish I had been that lucky

Well, maybe not. I got busted in 72 with an oz. In VA at the time, any thing over 11 grs. could be considered intent to distribute. Since I had done many things I didn't get caught for, the DA decided to try to rail road me.

I wound up doing 4 months and learned a lot more about crime. The good news was, it kept me out of Nam. My lottery number was 42 which equates to "Get on the boat dude". I turned out a lot better than most of the guys that went over there. Most of them are still horribly scared mentally if not physically.