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'You're under arrest for having murdered in the past even though you have no murder weapon on you!'

I'm not at all in favor of criminalising recreational drugs, But arresting someone for having done something illegal without them currently doing said illegal thing makes sense.

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Murder is a (mostly) provable thing though, you can't prove someone smokes weed because their lighter is a little charred.

I'm also pretty sure it's not even the act of smoking weed that's illegal, it's the possession (at least that's the case in the UK) - you can't nab someone for possession because they possessed at some point in the past, because that is - by definition - no longer possession.

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