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Originally Posted by JAD_333
Why would the card cause a search? You are thinking in today's mindset. If drugs were legal, what will a serach prove. Anyway do cops stop you and look at all your credit cards? As for credibility in court, there is a standard of proof; proving someone has a card is meaningless unless a law has been broken.
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It is just that an officer would be less likely to believe someone who uses drugs than someone who does not, I don't agree with this reasoning, but this stigma will exist for at least a generation of law enforcement.
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Originally Posted by JAD_333
You have to show your ID to buy booze or tobacco; if the vendor wanted he could keep a record of your purchase? Credit card charges are used to establish credit, track consumer tastes, direct advertising to consumers... To live in an organized society part of life will be lived in a fishbowl. If you want total privacy, drop out, quit driving and pay cash..but then there's your social security.  |
There is a big difference between individual vendors or credit card companies recording your purchases and a vast national organization completely dedicated to tracking what you have purchased, how much and where. This is in many ways an invasion of privacy. As much as I am for the legalization of drugs, I doubt I am willing to forfeit these many of my rights for that goal.
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