Posted by allwoman on March 26, 2008 at 2:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Lil' Timmy was 'bout ta make himself a fist full of dollars!

Posted by LowcountryMoose on March 26, 2008 at 3:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Interesting. Aren't speed traps what cops set up to catch speeders? If only there were more police, they could set up checkpoints everywhere! Heck, why stop at just checkpoints? I bet we could find lots of criminals if cops would just do random house searches. Who needs that silly 4th Amendment anyhow.

ZIG HEIL!

Posted by burton on March 26, 2008 at 3:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LowcountryMoose,
You obviously live in a community where everything is ephoria. Many of us live in communities where the criminal element is trying to take over these communities with their dirty deeds. I am proud to see the residents of these communities step up and let these criminals know that they are not going to take it anymore! Chief Zumalt and his police dept cannot do it by themselves; they need our help!!!

Posted by TP on March 26, 2008 at 4:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Intent to distribute? Bullocks! This grass was for personal use, just like Tommy Ravenel's oz. of cocaine.

Ever seen a 7-lb blunt? That's what i'm talkin' about.

Posted by LowcountryMoose on March 26, 2008 at 4:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

burton, while I do live in a fairly safe neighborhood, I have had my car broken into right in my own driveway. I, like our country's Founding Fathers, feel that the USA is about as euphoric as a nation gets. We are supposedly the land of the free. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution for a reason. These rights get tweaked, poked and prodded leaving all of us with less rights.

It is certainly the responsibility of citizens to help police their own neighborhoods. With enough tips to law enforcement about individuals participating in illegal activity, the police could actually GET A WARRANT to search, seize or arrest.

Posted by walleyedwoman1215 on March 26, 2008 at 4:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Is it just me, or does this guy look stoned? :-)

Posted by lillycollette on March 26, 2008 at 5:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm grateful another one is off the streets.

Posted by sumDJiam on March 26, 2008 at 5:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

there's your war won, lillycollette

Posted by KidYendor on March 26, 2008 at 11:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We need to legalize the purchase of marijuana.

Posted by lillycollette on March 27, 2008 at 6:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

On the one hand people express shock and horror over “delusional psychotic” crimes.

On the other hand they go into delusional denial that drugs contribute to delusional psychosis.

Where there is an inability to achieve resolution in one’s own mind consensus on cause and effect in crimes just drifts away in a -- purple haze.

I appreciate what law enforcement is up against and I exercise my 1st Amendment right to publicly tell them “THANK YOU”.

PS:// I also thank the professors who educated me in the difference between rabble-rousing, sedition and 1st Amendment rights.

Posted by forget on March 27, 2008 at 9:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Lowcountry Moose - the citizens that live in the neighborhood ASKED for this for the safety of their neighborhood. They got an added bonus with the arrest of this guy. I say it was a win-win situation for everyone (except for Mr. Gregowicz)! May these people enjoy their neighborhood a little more now.

Posted by zmysticman on March 27, 2008 at 10:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Poor Timmy, if he was only sellng CRACK he would have less jail time, since the marijuana is such a evil drug.

Posted by froglegs on March 27, 2008 at 11:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

He may have had $33,000 worth of weed on him but for the next two years he will spend in jail our tax money will shell out $80,000 to keep him there. Mark up another win for the "Drug War" and another loss to the tax payers of this great state.

Imagine a situation where we did not have to pay to incarcerate this young man and the state government was the one regulating this already lucrative trade of marijuana. That would be $113,000 profit for the state.

In that same situation instead of placing police officers in a neighborhood to prevent speeding on a 25mph road we could have installed speed bumps and probably repaved the road for the neighborhood. Then the people of this neighborhood could live their lives in peace without a military style presence.

Imagine the possibilities if the ridiculous war on drugs would come to an end.

Posted by walleyedwoman1215 on March 27, 2008 at 5:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm ambivalent on legalizing pot. On the one hand, I personally know maybe 10 professionals--attorneys, business owners, and yes, a teacher--who smoke on the weekends; no minors present, no PCP, no accidents, and they get up and go to church (or play golf) the next day, so where's the harm?
OTOH, I also know a couple of classic stoners who started smoking in high school who have no ambition, no families, live in their parents' attics and count the hours between bongs. So I can see both sides, I guess.
I never tried it because my brother said it would make me fat!

Posted by lillycollette on March 28, 2008 at 5:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Pro-drug use paladins armed with calculators are quick to provide a selectively narrow view on the cost of drug enforcement and incarceration. Joe-blow was caught with X amount of drugs and it cost the public X amount of tax dollars to prosecute and incarcerate him.

They do not address the depreciation of property values (tax base) when the drug crowd takes over a neighborhood. The cost of neighborhood blight is never on their spreadsheets—let alone the cost in human life.

They ignore all financial and human costs of drug related crime in the face of statistics to the contrary and offer antidotal stories of financially productive citizens—without any verification.

I do not find drug hucksters any more impressive than any other criminal element.