By Cowan - 06/08/2009 12:27 - Belgium

Today, I had to come back home early from my holidays. Why? I had asked my grandmother to water my plants, some of which are illegal. Instead of doing it herself, she asked her neighbor… who is a cop. FML
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mardigrasqueen 0

Between you and the genius who taunted the homeless guy, this website is reading like a who's who of human crap. YDI.

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Horurerukul 0

your grandma couldn't handle a simple task? FYL

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Sativus 0

No it's proof that idiot's exist and chose to smoke pot. There are very intelligent pot smokers, but most of the people that get into it can't think for themselves and ruin the reputation of everyone else that does it.

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aravol 0

Yeah, always have trustworthy people to fall back on when you START growing illicit plants. And don't fall back on one whose neighbor is a cop.

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summer99 0

hope you didnt post here looking for sympathy over your lost vacation. YDI for a) assuming your grandmother didnt know what you were doing, b) not thinking of all the consequences, c) growing them in the first place.

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M13LO 0

FYL? no FML! now where m I suppose to get my weed from???

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4ube_fml 6

I think i've read this FML less than a week ago Oo

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oh_mi_shizzle 0

no offense... but really... what were u thinking? planting "illegal" stuff when your neighbor is a flipping /cop/!!! I mean you're in a mess now... so FYL! yet, still YDI cuz you're ****** only cuz those are the consequences for taking stupid actions...

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DameGreyWulf 0

Well, FYL because I can give you the benefit of the doubt and say you could just be a plant fanatic. Plus, I've never had any reason to judge someone for dipping into the weed... except if they got addicted to it, of course. But definitely YDI because you KNEW they were illegal, still planted, and still did it with a cop neighbour... unless you planted off site, but the first two are inexcusable.

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DameGreyWulf 0

Wait, I read this wrong, unless OP is living with grandma lol

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Pyromatt22 0

lmao. you don't ask you grandma to water your weed jackass. YDI

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ManicGypsy 22

If it were me, I would Extended my vacation rather than returning home early.

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dramakat11 0

STFU haters! Weed SHOULD NOT be illegal for multitudes of reasons. Weed is no more harmful than alcohol or cigarettes. In fact, ALL drugs should be legalized. Regardless of the dangers, it's a free country and people should have a right to do what they want in the privacy of their own homes so long as they are not hurting others. All ACTUAL CRIMES associated with drug use should be prosecuted in and of themselves. The true crime is the fact that millions of Americans are incarcerated and are then unable to find employment due to criminal records--all due to NON-VIOLENT drug crimes. Believe it or not, not everyone who does drugs is a junkie--far from it. If someone is a drug abuser and they then neglect their children--CPS will take their children away; if they fail to perform their job well they will be fired, etc--but it is just plain wrong to lock someone up for their personal habits which harm no one else. Even if you do not agree with that moral stance--a look at some of the facts about the FAILED War on Drugs and common sense should tell you that it is a failed policy that needs to cease. It is wasting billions of our tax dollars on a failed effort when a legal market for drugs would effectively KILL the illegal market and the violence. Also, for all of you who still wouldn't support it because you want to keep drugs as far from your children as possible: every single survey shows that kids have a harder time finding someone to buy them alcohol than getting illegal drugs. The following is a statement from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: "After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease! The stated goals of current U.S.drug policy -- reducing crime, drug addiction, and juvenile drug use -- have not been achieved, even after nearly four decades of a policy of "war on drugs". This policy, fueled by over a trillion of our tax dollars has had little or no effect on the levels of drug addiction among our fellow citizens, but has instead resulted in a tremendous increase in crime and in the numbers of Americans in our prisons and jails. With 4.6% of the world's population, America today has 22.5% of the worlds prisoners. But, after all that time, after all the destroyed lives and after all the wasted resources, prohibited drugs today are cheaper, stronger, and easier to get than they were thirty-five years ago at the beginning of the so-called "war on drugs". With this in mind, we current and former members of law enforcement have created a drug-policy reform movement -- LEAP. We believe that to save lives and lower the rates of disease, crime and addiction. as well as to conserve tax dollars, we must end drug prohibition. LEAP believes that a system of regulation and control of production and distribution will be far more effective and ethical than one of prohibition. We do this in hopes that we in Law Enforcement can regain the public's respect and trust, which have been greatly diminished by our involvement in imposing drug prohibition. Please consider joining us. You don't have to be a cop to join LEAP! Find out more about us by reading some of the articles in our Publications section or by watching and listening to some of our multimedia clips,. You can also read about the men and women who speak for LEAP, and see what we have on the calendar for the near future." -Keep in mind that this organization is made up of current and former LAW ENFORCEMENT, JUDGES, AND OTHER PROMINENT FIGURES who have been on the front line of the Drug War and they know what they're talking about when they say that it isn't working. So the OP is breaking an UNJUST law in the privacy of his own home, needed to go out of town, asked a relative to water his plants for him like any other plant-owning vacationing person, and banked on the fact that his grandmother wouldn't recognize the marijuana plant. How was he to know she'd ask the cop neighbor to do it? FYL OP.

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ananamoose 0

bro... really... are you seriously going to look all that crap up and write a research paper on fml, noone cares, people read it to read interesting shit, not this bullshit you just posted

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dramakat11 0

It's not bullshit; it's perfectly logical and I enjoyed writing it. Actually I have read some people's comments and links on this site before that I thought were very educational. I don't think the majority on here care but so the **** what? I'm just voicing my opinion and there's always the possibility that I could help change someone's mind about an important issue and make a difference. And I'm not a bro; I'm a woman. You come on here to get your kicks; I come on here to get mine. **** off and don't tell me what I should and shouldn't say.

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arienh4 0

What a lovely paragraph. Unfortunately the OP is Belgium, not American. *sighes heavily* Fail.

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DameGreyWulf 0

Eeeyipe. TL;DR. But, unjustly illegal or not, they still were, OP couldn't have expected it to be secret for long, so OP still deserves it. Also, OP is in Belgium. We don't know Belgium plant laws, or the reasonings behind them. For all we know, it could NOT be weed, actually. So jump down off that horse, we're talking about Belgium not the US. Though go and research and type all you want, though. Post it everywhere. Someone might read it. Lord knows I always do it, anyway lol

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lmmmr 0

All the power to you for posting what you're passionate about, drama, but the idea that drugs should be legal because America is a free country is way off. America is a free ocuntry in that no human can be legally enslaved, not that you should be allowed to do whatever the **** you want. Using that as a defense only makes you look like a 10 year old trying to justify eating ice cream for dinner.

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dramakat11 0

Whatever. A lot of the arguments, especially the moral ones, apply to any country. In regards to this particular post I just ultimately think it's a FYL because, in my eyes, the OP does not deserve to be arrested for growing any plant--unless it was some type of deadly plant he was planning to use as a weapon or something--and it seems pretty likely he's talking about marijuana or some other drug. Also, in regards the the point of view a lot of people seem to have that it was dumb to have the grandma water them: I'd give the OP the benefit of the doubt and bet that the gma has been over there before, seen the plants and hasn't recognized them so he thought it was a safe bet. Her having the cop do it was unforeseen. However, if he was not positive that the gma wouldn't recognize and/or be upset about the plants then I would say it's somewhat of a YDI.

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Inked2009 0

Someone needs to lay off the drugs,and get into a rehab

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generalsmith2 0

you have convinced me. now i will do...................... nothing. good job stupid.

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dramakat11 0

I think people should have the freedom to do as they wish so long as they are not harming others. Your analogy is silly because I'm talking about ADULT's rights, not children's. Children are not legally independent and do indeed have to take orders from their parents. I am an adult and I don't want the government giving me orders about what I can do in the privacy of my own home so long as I am not harming others or causing a public disturbance. I am fully aware that there are counterarguments to my moral stance, which is why I listed several facts detailing how the War on Drugs is doing more harm than good to prove that by ANYONE's standards the War on Drugs should be considered immoral at this point even if you do not share my view that freedoms should only be encroached upon if people are causing harm to others.

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wienerwagon 0

#71, do you HONESTLY think a "free country" just means no slavery? While it doesn't necessarily mean drugs are illegal, that is still probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this site.

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dramakat11 0

Exactly! That is a really dumb thing to say #71. So anything short of slavery is ok? We could have a declared religion or have our freedom of speech censored or have a government-mandated healthy diet but that would all be okay if it were for the greater good and would produce a better society so long as we are not slaves with no rights or freedoms at all?

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Sativus 0

Well, its funny that the people that act all high and mighty and claim sobriety from this "devil weed" are the ones bitching about someone posting something slightly educational. Not to sound like a fear mongering politician, but anyone that supports the illegality of drugs is supporting the very drug cartels that sell the drugs, and profit off unnecessary murder and crime. If it weren't illegal, their would be no benefit of buying it from these people, as it would surely cost less. Alcohol is pretty hard for anyone under the age of 21 to obtain, but marijuana, which you probably realize is not regulated by our government, is as easy as a phone call, and a 5 minute wait for most. Also...Pot, unlike the currently legal, and far more dangerous drug, alcohol, doesn't intoxicate somebody to the point where their decision making skills are all but nonexistent. If anyone acts that way after smoking marijuana, they're just an idiot that's overdoing it much like when preppy girls drink 2 beers and start humping anything that moves.

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dramakat11 0

That is just ignorant #79. The organization that I quoted has many members that think drug use is dangerous and wrong, but think that the War on Drugs is even MORE dangerous and wrong. The War on Drugs only supports the lowlifes that you are generalizing all drug users to be. First of all, it keeps the illegal market all its violence thriving. Second of all, it turns drug users into desperate criminals who cannot find employment and become functioning members of society. Many people WANT to turn their lives around but end up going back to drug dealing and other crime because they cannot find jobs due to criminal records. We should focus on rehabilitation for drug abusers who truly need help, not criminalization that only hurts them further. It is the people who know the facts and TRULY want to lower the rates of addiction who are for the legalization of drugs. Your ignorance is absolutely astounding. To all of you calling me stupid, I laugh you off. You guys are funny with your pathetic, half-ass arguments.

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XOfiestypixie 0

Ok, I don't really want to get involved in this whole argument, since I don't do drugs and don't plan on ever doing drugs (I do drink, but I'm don't drink enough to get out of control), but I do have this to say. While you make a good point that people should have the ability to do whatever they want in their own personal homes, there are SOME people who disregard the safety of themselves and others. If everyone was able to control themselves, and their addictions (some drugs cause addictions the first time they're used such as crystal meth), it would be no problem; however, not everyone is like that and that is why there are laws.

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Sativus 0

And explain how those laws causing deaths in other countries that far outnumber the deaths from the already high recreational use of cannabis are just?

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theanonimouse 0

Not everyone can control their use of alcohol either, but it's legal.

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tb15 0

I started to read your comment, but then I got bored. It's got to be the longest comment on FML. ps. "unjust law" is not really for potheads to decide

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