This happens because you're creating categories of crime that are disconnected from specific criminal acts (murder, theft etc) and rather things that are simply ongoing human conditions... I.e. possessing a plant or simply existing on the wrong side of a line in the sand

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Ultimately it winds up destroying freedom for everyone, in the same way internet restrictions "for the children" mean that now everyone has to prove they're an adult to access the internet.
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Troy 1 month ago
The difference between lawful and legal.
They're not the same. Possessing a plant in no way affects anyone else's property. Being on the wrong side of a property border does. And certainly drawing resources from a welfare state does.