Quote Originally Posted by Nailhead
There are countries that put you away for life if you smoke pot, the US laws are not as bad as you think they are. Most cops don't waste their time on marijuana busts either, it's usually just something that gets tagged on to other charges to take some scumbag off the streets. The laws vary from state to state, and in California you can have up to 28.5 grams and it's just a misdemeaner, whereas other parts of the world would put you away for life, so I don't think that is too crazy IMO.

I'm sure in other parts of the country where the Christian extremists reside things are probably much different, and their cops probably would waste time on small things like that, so if you visit stick to an area with a lot of murders and violent crimes, those cops will be too busy to mess with you :P

And I think those laws you mentioned are just outdated ones they bring up again to make a little joke, I've read things like that before and those were just outdated. You shouldn't really criticize a country if you haven't visited it yet, you can read a lot of negatives from any country, but actually going there and experiencing it first hand is much different than just reading about it.

Federal Law overrides state law, as far as i know. I'm not a pro, i dont know much about America, but i DO know that the laws are stupid, harsh and unrealistic.