Sometimes, the law really is an ass!
Ed has linked to this write up of an appalling application of state drug laws in Florida. My only question, if him owning the tablets constitutes trafficking, then aren’t the doctors who prescribed them in some way culpable? You’d think that at least a civil suit would be a possibility.
Edit: No, obviously, no-one is culpable, because no reasonable person would agree that a crime had been committed, but if you’re going to convict, why limit to the one man? I’m sure there are lots of other people they could have wrongly imprisoned at the same time.
Sometimes, the law really is an ass! by Will Goring, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.