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Couldn't They Just Pretend to Arrest Them?

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2005 3:43 PM


Last week two 10-year-old girls at Old Kings Elementary School in Flagler County, Florida, were arrested for pretending that parsley was marijuana. They're lucky it wasn't oregano.

[Via the Drug War Chronicle]

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).