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What would you do if you found a bag of cocaine in a pepper?

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What would you do if you found a bag of cocaine in a pepper?

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I'd probably throw it away thinking it was sugar or baking soda. I'm too cynical to think I'd luck upon a small fortune. Hell could be antrax or something like that that would make me sick so I aint smellin or tasting it.
 
When I was in High School I did actually find multiple bails of marijuana washed up on Surf Side Beach in Texas. It was all saturated in diesel, and by my reckoning, unsmokable.
I sold that shit for 50 bucks per Ziploc gallon-bag and it was all gone in a day. It's been about 20 years now... I hope the statute of limitations has expired.
That's what the drug war does...it makes some people willing to overpay for a plant, that would otherwise occur naturally, and ingest it, even though it's saturated with brine and petrol.
Perfect world we share, ain't it.
 
Stillborn said:
I'd probably throw it away thinking it was sugar or baking soda. I'm too cynical to think I'd luck upon a small fortune. Hell could be antrax or something like that that would make me sick so I aint smellin or tasting it.
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I first thought to flush it, but what if it was something awful? wait, like cocaine effects aren't awful? anyway, you never know what stuff like that could be, so I voted for handing it in.
 
my take on recreational pharmaceuticals is it should always be an informed , educated choice, so for sheer potential for the drugs being ingested by someone unawates especially a minor, id go the tell the police option.

i'll never forget a friends tale, of coming home to find her mum had cooked a bag of magic mushrooms she found in the fridge for lunch..............

nasty surprises all round that day
 
But the coke is going to get out there anyway mike. Im talking a decent size bag here.

Through 6 degrees of separation Im sure I could find someone that knows someone. Me giving it to the authorities isnt going to do a damn thing, and in this case selling it wont actually be morally wrong (IMO), like say finding $4000 in a wallet and keeping that would be morally wrong.
 
Gareth said:
But the coke is going to get out there anyway mike. Im talking a decent size bag here.

Through 6 degrees of separation Im sure I could find someone that knows someone. Me giving it to the authorities isnt going to do a damn thing, and in this case selling it wont actually be morally wrong (IMO), like say finding $4000 in a wallet and keeping that would be morally wrong.
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a wrong is still a wrong, whether or not it is an opportunistic wrong, or a pre-meditated wrong.

the moral wrongness of selling it is based partly on the effects cocaine addiction has on families, the public, etcetera etcetera, etcetera.

the absolute idiocy of it is not being 100 percent certain it was cocaine, and not some other, more toxic substance. Unless you tested it, how would you know? and testing an unknown substance is absolute stupidity - trust me, I learned that lesson a few times as a kid, and it finally sunk in the third time!

It could have been laced with anything, from arsenic to corn starch. Selling an unknown substance that is laced with a poison, puts you on the list of being morally responsible for any harm caused to the buyer/user.

so, think about it again, taking all those points into consideration, and tell me it is not morally wrong to sell it.

and would you still vote the same way, thinking of those possibilities?
 
Apparently I'm the only person who would keep it and use it at my discretion. And by 'use it at my discretion' I mean P-A-R-T-Y till there's none left.

What I can't make my own descisions providing it doesn't have negative consequences for myself or anyone else? Come on.... Come on... Commmee onnn...
 
Daedalus said:
Apparently I'm the only person who would keep it and use it at my discretion. And by 'use it at my discretion' I mean P-A-R-T-Y till there's none left.

What I can't make my own descisions providing it doesn't have negative consequences for myself or anyone else? Come on.... Come on... Commmee onnn...
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The previous comment took into consideration that the special white powder in question was indeed the derivative of the coca plant. Mind you there ARE alot more South American Anthrax labs than there are coca plantations. hehehe. OR It could be a great way for manufacturers of corn starch to avoid costly import tarrifs. I'm sure stuffing a few grams of corn starch in a few million bell peppers would prove cost effective. They could use the now out of work sweat shop kids that made my Banana Republic sweater!
 
Daedalus said:
Apparently I'm the only person who would keep it and use it at my discretion. And by 'use it at my discretion' I mean P-A-R-T-Y till there's none left.

What I can't make my own descisions providing it doesn't have negative consequences for myself or anyone else? Come on.... Come on... Commmee onnn...
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You jump to that conclusion already? The poll is new.

Don't think anyone is trying to take your decision away. I know I aint at least. I have friends who do coke. Or at least did, lost touch with them years ago. I also have friends who are vegans and jog. Don't care either way so long as you aint say a brain surgeon cutting into my skull after doing some lines. Or jogging in the way of my car, or preach to me that cows are alive when veggies are too.
 
1 -- Selling the cocaine one finds would invite questions from those who lost it. Probably not something that could end well. If there is a bag of cocaine lost, someone is actively searching for it.
2 -- Selling it puts you at risk of getting sent to prison. Again with the not ending well.
3 -- If you do manage to sell it then you are a drug dealer to the person you sold it to and will carry that reputation from then on. Plus, users who get caught will give you up. See #2
4 -- Giving it away is really the same as #3. But lets be serious, this is really not remotely an option for anyone in reality. You dont give away a bag of cocaine. Pot, I can see, but not cocaine.
5 -- If you are a cocaine user, then your gonna sell some of it and keep some of it. A bag of cocaine is too much for one person. Cocaine is a social drug. Therefore someone is gonna ask you for some and your gonna end up selling some of it to them. Thus, see #1,#2, and #3.

So to a logical non-nefarious mind there are really only two options. Flush it or give it to the cops. I chose to give it to the cops because then there is no way the guys who lost it might think I used or sold their product. Just a normal citizens turning in contraband.

Of course, I may have just watched too many movies.
 
RonCollins said:
1 -- Selling the cocaine one finds would invite questions from those who lost it. Probably not something that could end well. If there is a bag of cocaine lost, someone is actively searching for it.
2 -- Selling it puts you at risk of getting sent to prison. Again with the not ending well.
3 -- If you do manage to sell it then you are a drug dealer to the person you sold it to and will carry that reputation from then on. Plus, users who get caught will give you up. See #2
4 -- Giving it away is really the same as #3. But lets be serious, this is really not remotely an option for anyone in reality. You dont give away a bag of cocaine. Pot, I can see, but not cocaine.
5 -- If you are a cocaine user, then your gonna sell some of it and keep some of it. A bag of cocaine is too much for one person. Cocaine is a social drug. Therefore someone is gonna ask you for some and your gonna end up selling some of it to them. Thus, see #1,#2, and #3.

So to a logical non-nefarious mind there are really only two options. Flush it or give it to the cops. I chose to give it to the cops because then there is no way the guys who lost it might think I used or sold their product. Just a normal citizens turning in contraband.

Of course, I may have just watched too many movies.
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If you give it to the police, they can get you for possession. Not the Linda Blair kind:)
 
How many of you return extra food after the drive thru? Not me, I eat that mess. Helps make up for all the times they screwed up my order. Bastards. I got everything i asked for at Taco Bell today though. They make the Taco Salads a lot smaller than they used to though. That sucked.
 
Daedalus said:
Apparently I'm the only person who would keep it and use it at my discretion. And by 'use it at my discretion' I mean P-A-R-T-Y till there's none left.
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This is my second choice to be honest.

Annette: It's not morally wrong to sell it. Sorry. But its how I feel.

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PS. For the sake of the question assume that you 'know' its cocaine. You see a news story where people are handing in bags of coke they find in peppers and the cops say its likely some of it is still out there. They confirm its coke. SO, you know its not poison and you know someone wont come looking for it due to the heat from the pigs and sheer number of bags that are still out there 'amongst the peppers'.

Hopefully that will make the decision a little easier for people, without having to speculate about the variables.
 
Gareth said:
This is my second choice to be honest.

Annette: It's not morally wrong to sell it. Sorry. But its how I feel.

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PS. For the sake of the question assume that you 'know' its cocaine. You see a news story where people are handing in bags of coke they find in peppers and the cops say its likely some of it is still out there. They confirm its coke. SO, you know its not poison and you know someone wont come looking for it due to the heat from the pigs and sheer number of bags that are still out there 'amongst the peppers'.

Hopefully that will make the decision a little easier for people, without having to speculate about the variables.
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I'd poor it on Rick James' grave and watch the birds eat it and turn into a Super Beak.
 
I'd have it tested in my local free drug testing clinic (Damn, I love Europe :)), then if it turns out te be 100% pure disco shit, I'd keep it myself ;)
 
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