Dealing pot

[tony10k]

This is a regular PTer posting under her husband's account (as you can see he's never posted)

We found out something this afternoon about someone very close to us. This person has been dealing pot. What can we do?

[DrKym]

Make a call.

[Catsnclay]

I would make a call and you can do it without revealing your identity, so this person will not know it was you! - even better

Think of this as doing them a favor.

Please don't delay.

[critter crazy]

I would definitely report them!

[Catty1]

Report them anonymously. You'll be keeping a lot of children out of danger.

[chocolatepuppy]

Good luck. My neighbor has been using and selling pot, oxyctin,crack and meth for 7 years and she and her daughter are still at it. Numerous calls have been made to the police and I have even called the drug task force. My crackhead neighbors know I have called as well as another neighbor has called repeatedly. I wish you better luck, or at least a better police dept.

[joycenalex]

i think a visit to the city/county DA is what i'd do. sometimes going to to the police doesn't get the desired/needed results. good luck, and let us know what you decide and what the results are.

[Randi]

If it's only pot, I would not worry too much, and I don't think the police will either - unless it's huge quantities.

I also think it's time that people discriminate between pot and hard drugs.

[lizbud]

If it's only pot, I would not worry too much, and I don't think the police will either - unless it's huge quantities.

I also think it's time that people discriminate between pot and hard drugs.

I agree with you Randi, although I suspect a lot of people will not.

[angelbow20]

I wouldnt do anything if it isnt affecting you personally. And if it bothers you that bad confront them and tell them they need to stop before the police find out.... Its not one of the more serious drugs so most likely they wont get in much trouble for it unless they have alot of it. It would be different if it was herion, cocaine etc though.

[tony10k]

I suppose a little more information would be in order. The person is the SO of a close family member. We (the family) would be happy to see this SO vanish into the night.

We know several cops who we can enlist the help of; we just weren't sure what to do with the information. We hear SO is dealing pot out of their workplace. Remember the movie "Loverboy" where people could ask for extra anchovies and get a date for the evening? This is a similar situation where if they ask for a special pizza they'll get the pot.

I came upon this information yesterday in a strange way. I was not fishing for the information. This is a small town and secrets don't stay hidden for long.

The reason this is such a big deal is because SO promised us and our family member that they no longer have anything to do with pot. Our family member believes everything SO tells them, while the rest of us knows they're not the perfect person they're portraying themselves as. They are hiding things and this is just one thing we can proove. If they are lying about this, what else are they lying about?

This is not a situation where the pot is the big deal. I don't want to get into the debate over pot and drugs. Its the fact that SO is lying and we can finally snag them in their own little lie.

We are stepping lightly because if our family member finds out we instigated a huge deal, especially enlisting the aid of cops, then our family member will not have anything to do with us anymore. That is the last thing we want. We are doing this to protect our family member.

[Catty1]

our family member will not have anything to do with us anymore

Until said member finds out in the aftermath how THEY have been lied to and ripped off...if the SO is arrested, friends have a way of coming forth and telling you what they knew - and didn't say to your face because they knew you wouldn't believe them.

Once your family member is blasted out of denial...I think they'll come around.

hugs

[LilacDragon]

If it's only pot, I would not worry too much, and I don't think the police will either - unless it's huge quantities.

I also think it's time that people discriminate between pot and hard drugs.

While you may well be right about this - the use of pot affects a person's judgement. And pot dealers, much like dealers of "hard drugs" have a tendancy to move in undesireable circles. After all, it is ILLEGAL. Personally, if a family member of mine was living with a pot dealer, I would be very concerned.

Having never had to deal with such an issue in my family, I really don't have a lot of advice to give.

[columbine]

I agree with you Randi, although I suspect a lot of people will not.

I agree too, but the law is the law whether fair or unfair, and the criminalization of this more or less harmless stuff does indeed attract members of the "undesirable circles" LilacDragon mentioned. It's a problem created by a law created for the benefit of Anheuser-Busch, but it's still a problem. Not one I'd consider panicworthy, but if I were worried about "undesirables" hanging around, I'd talk to the guy and say, "Look, I don't trust your customers not to bring the actual bad stuff and its associated crime into my neighborhood. Knock it off or I'm blowing the whistle."

Love, Columbine

[Cataholic]

While you may well be right about this - the use of pot affects a person's judgement. And pot dealers, much like dealers of "hard drugs" have a tendancy to move in undesireable circles. After all, it is ILLEGAL. Personally, if a family member of mine was living with a pot dealer, I would be very concerned.

Having never had to deal with such an issue in my family, I really don't have a lot of advice to give.

Gosh, me, too! While I could argue about someone smoking something in their own home every once in a while, I don't see someone 'dealing' out of their home in the same way.