There has been much debate about whether or not purchasing marijuana online is legal or illegal. What is the truth? There was a classroom debate at my university the other day about whether or not this is true or myth. These sites claim to have “offshore” bank accounts and it is completely confidential. Something doesn’t sound right here. There must be laws forbidding this. How do they stay in business? I figure that if regular internet users stumble across these sites, the government must be cracking down. Hopefully you can clear this up and support my claim that these sites are illegal and hoaxes so I can maintain my integrity in class.
I’ve seen websites, and I can’t remember what they were selling, but they had a disclaimer that said if you weren’t legally allowed to purchase the material, you shouldn’t be doing it. I think they were basically absolving themselves of any responsibility if someone bought it when the law said they shouldn’t. (It might have been porn, in which case it would have said ‘if you are under the age of 21’).
I’ve never seen actual marijuana for sale; that is no mail order dealers. However, there are tons of places that sell the seeds for all varieties of pot. In some places like the UK and maybe Canada it is legal to sell them and legal to possess them, but growing them is illegal. AFAIK, it is illegal to even possess them in the US.
I imagine that if you order from such a website and pay with your credit card, as you would presumably have to do, you would be the legal owner of the MJ as soon as the transaction went through. But in the act of receiving the shipment you’d be importing it, which is surely illegal.
As a comparison, the legal disclaimers for an online wine and spirits store says that you own the liquor as soon as your credit card transaction is authorized, but the laws regarding shipment are controlled by your state, or other jurisdiction in which you live. So with the MJ, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can, actually, legally buy it and take “possession” of it, but you just can’t get it home.
Grumple Grommit, if you attempt to circumvent the rules of GQ again, especially when they are stated explicitly within the thread itself, you will be banned without hesitation.
