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Just don't drink and drive folks.
That won't help. Innocence is no excuse against American cops.
The one time I had to serve on a jury in the US, it was for a case where a cop was insisting that a young woman was drunk driving. She "failed" the roadside tests that he had rigged her to lose, claimed her car appeared to be swerving slightly (on a road covered in potholes), and then redacted the part of his camera where he gave her a breathalyzer test.
Thankfully it was a very quick consensus to declare her not guilty, but it's just ridiculous that it even made it to a trial in the first place. The girl did nothing wrong, yet still had to be dragged around with an arrest on record for about a year, hire a lawyer, brought into court several times, all just because one cop (a new hire, at that) refused to consider that he may have been wrong.
I'm also reminded of the more recent example where a cop still issued a ticket to a woman for allegedly holding a phone while driving in a hand she does not have. Cops in the US think they have the power to rewrite events in their favor, and tragically this succeeds for them more often than not. It's only the egregious cases that get caught.
https://youtu.be/k9_A0q-CoYU
Even better, don’t drink at all don’t drive at all. At least if you live somewhere walkable. Tasty juice for me at the bars I guess (why are all the NA options just beer)
I don't see any chance of making humans stop using drugs.
I mean it's not like we're alone in chasing that high either, you can find dolphins chewing on pufferfish, reindeers enjoying fly agaric toadstools, elks getting high on fermented apples, wallabies eating opium poppies and so on.
I think teaching responsible use and having proper help available for those that need it is the only real way to handle alcohol and drugs in society.
Oh yeah no I totally agree, I was mostly referring to myself, as I personally don’t do either. I don’t begrudge people who do as long as they’re responsible. Caffeine is a drug too I don’t think anyone is soap boxing that one. I only have issue with others choices affecting my own personal ones I.e. insane amounts of secondhand smoke for example.
Also wasps eat fermenting fruit and get pissed too...
@anamethatisnt @galaxy_nova
It's time for drug class in high school. Half your teachers were getting high anyway--devote the last period of the day to learning intoxication under experienced supervision.
Woke liberal over here folks.
lol, depending on which side of the pond we're talking about that statement would fit my whole country.
You never had a mocktail?
While 0% Gin has been way too sweet when tasting it as is it works remarkably well with tonic to make a GT non-alcoholic.
On the other hand, alcohol free rum resembles real rum only in that both are liquid
That’s the “tasty juice” I coyly allude to. I was mostly referring to the lack of the emulation of hard liquors or at least ones that you can buy at a bar.