I don't quite get the thesis of the author here. Regardless of the view that one may have on Cannabis laws, they are illegal, if the system is correctly detaining people that break those laws, and you have a problem with that, is the problem with the enforcement system or the law?

If you don't like some aspect of this, should you be campaigning for removal of flock cameras? Or campaigning for cannabis rights and Controlled Substances reform?

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site-packages1 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The issue isn't prosecution for illegality, among other things it's the anti-Fourth-Amendment methods for constructing the case. So, I'm going to campaign for government entities to follow the Constitution (as amended).

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TZubiri 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Which of the events would be in violation of the 4th amendment here?

	▲	rglover 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A reply to another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189750

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forlorn_mammoth 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The two hang together. You campaign in your state to legalize something. Some other state, where you have very little influence, goes the other way.

It isn't just cannabis.

what if the law categorizes abortion as felony/murder?

what if the law categorized certain types of sexual behavior as felony?

	▲	dillondoyle 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Already happening. They're pissed abortion is up. These alt-right/christian nationalists are trying to force their <s>'morals'</s> on the rest of us "She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-te... it gets worse federally. "Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/03/blanche-pledged-abo... So what happens when they use cameras outside of usps to crate pretext so a crazy alt right state judge issues a warrant under the assumption that you picked up pills in the mail? "AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access" https://stateline.org/2026/08/04/ag-nominee-tells-faith-lead... And relevant to interstate weed, what about kava, peptides, 7oh? they literally have million+ plus stakes in pushing drugs. Even when it means blocking worse drugs (7oh) so they can push slightly less addictive but still harmful garbage. "Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo" https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/senator-ron-wyden-invest... "Trump Administration’s Fake Crackdown Leaves Most ‘Gas Station Heroin’ on the Shelves. According to March 2026 financial disclosures, Mullin invested between $500,001 and $1 million in Botanic Tonics, LLC, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the company that makes Feel Free Classic – the tonic found in the victim’s bedroom. Mullin reportedly urged officials to remove language from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website warning of kratom’s harms." https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-administrations-fake-crac... It's all disgusting. Their voters deserve these consequences. But they're forcing the rest of us to suffer.

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ux266478 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the problem is that you're implicitly assuming a mutual exclusion, but it doesn't exist. IE you can have a problem with the law's existence, and also have a problem with an enforcement system that selectively enforces laws out of malice and/or as a false pretense. These are pretty synergistic values, as a matter of fact.