Baggies can get you arrested in the USA

A new drug paraphernalia law, proposed by our newest Kansas Idiots in our House and Senate, no longer requires that an object have residue or proof of intent of use. The police can decide what is used for drugs and what isn’t. That means any cigarette papers, a straw from a fast food joint, or as this article makes clear, any glass item, such as a glass rose.

“Drug law nets first arrests
The Wichita Eagle
October 05, 2007

The 'Happy Valentine Glass Rose' is no romantic gift, Wichita police say.
Instead, it's a pipe used to smoke methamphetamine, Sgt. Trevor McDonald said Friday, surrounded by an assortment of glass pipes, electronic scales, bright blue baggies and rolling papers that police confiscated at a Wichita convenience store in the first case under a new law that makes it illegal to sell drug paraphernalia.
Police say they seized thousands of items designed for drug use Thursday night from the KC Gas & Groceries store at Maple and Seneca.
A six-week investigation resulted in the arrests of two people on felony charges. Selling paraphernalia is a misdemeanor under a new Kansas law that went into effect July 1, but because the store is within 1,000 feet -- 460 feet, according to police -- of Allison Middle School, felony charges applied, McDonald said.
A 'We are closed' sign was taped to the store's front door late Friday afternoon, but the store reopened in the evening.”

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“Police will try to figure out how much of the store's business came from the products, he said.
Investigators seized more than 1,000 pipes made for smoking meth, about 1,300 pipes made for smoking crack, more than 500 keychain-style 'one-hitter' marijuana pipes, more than 60 electronic scales, several thousand boxes of papers used for rolling marijuana cigarettes, or joints, and thousands of baggies used primarily for measuring powder drugs”

Baggies???! What’s next? - shovels because they might be used for growing pot? Where does this madness end? Our government seeks to protect people from them selves and come up with ridiculous laws that are nothing more than a publicity stunt. But worse than that it allows anyone to be harassed by police just because the law is so vague anyone can be arrested for a straw, coffee stirrer or having an empty baggie. The owner of this shop was clearly targeted for harassment.

Beware – Big Brother is watching you