From: proto@panix.com   
      
   Dr John Watson  wrote:   
      
   > Noticed at Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:57:47 -0500: Walter Bushell informed us:   
   >   
   > > In article <6vm112FkgotsU1@mid.individual.net>,   
   > >  "The Todal"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Here's a situation. A small group of people have a party at a private   
   > >> house. They get drunk on alcohol and all of them smoke some cannabis.   
   > >> They are settling down to sleep when one of the male guests commits a   
   > >> serious sexual assault on a 22 year old female guest. If they report   
   > >> the assault to the police they will inevitably have to explain that   
   > >> they were smoking cannabis and that one of them supplied cannabis to   
   > >> the others.   
   > >>   
   > >> What would you expect the attitude of the police, the judge and the   
   > >> lawyers to be? Would you be inclined to advise the young woman not to   
   > >> report the assault lest she might get into serious trouble?   
   > >   
   > > Given the laws the way they are that would have been my advice.   
   >   
   > Yes, using cannabis is a more serious offence than sexual assault.   
   But if you admit to cannabis use, its a slam dunk. Sexual assalt would   
   have to be proven. And besides the penalty for cannabis use exceeds the   
   ultility of going to jail for cannabis for the reporter.   
      
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