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People outside of the USA: What are some interesting, cool, or fascinating aspects of your country you'd like to share with the world? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

so they illegally purchase it and then sell illegal goods, legally?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eh, not legally. It's illegal but condoned (up to 5 gram, for personal use only). Meaning they won't arrest or prosecute you for it, but technically you are still beaking the law. I guess in theory some DA could add it along with other charges. But since we don't have a US-style kangaroo court system, this never happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

we don't have a US-style kangaroo court system

What does that mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of DA's in the US trump up charges and add anything they can think of, often in order to scare the defendant into settling out of court. I believe some 97% of cases in the US are settled out of court. That doesn't happen over here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

OK. Thank you for explaining.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the the old days, frontier judges would “hop” from one town to another and hold mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I guess I don't think of the US court system as being like that today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Should we call this "blind-eye economics"? I just kinda like the sound of it lol