They really should prosecute the seller for fraud.

The kids are guilty of Inability To Recognize Parsley. I don't think we're talking major drug users here.

I did see an account the other week of a case where allegedly a reputable lawyer was accused at an airport of carrying some -- I forget if it was pot or coke -- and allegedly swallowing it; what then, the story went, happened is that she then choked and died. I didn't consider the source to be reliable, so I didn't blog it, but were it to be a vaguely accurate account it would be far more serious, as most of the farces of the drug war. Millions of people in jail who shouldn't be, tens of millions of lives disrupted. Grr.

Trivia: A Few Good Men was written by Aaron Sorkin, creator of the West Wing, convicted drug user. (Lots: marijuana, coke, LSD....) His drug use didn't prevent him from being one of the world's most successful writers and producers, for what that's worth.

Excellent point, Gary. I personally don't think much of drugs and alcohol, but I think even less of the small-minded twits who spend so many tax dollars to prevent people from doing what they're going to do anyhow, 'for their own good.' What a crock.

At the federal level, it's "intent to distribute" and not actual distribution that gets you convicted. Numerous examples of non-drug drug convictions can be found.

Perhaps charged with aggravated stupidity? I know, drug counselling so that next time they'll be able to tell the difference...Personally I think that the War on (some) Drugs needs to go the way of Probition and for many of the same reasons.