I wonder how many people realize that practically the only reason this sort of a law is on the books in Illinois (and probably most other states as well) is to prevent some con-man from claiming in court, "hey judge, I know the undercover cop busted me for selling him a bag of dope, but it wasn't dope . . . it was oregano."
don't they have lab tests that differentiate marijuana from oregano?
there is also something called a "chain of evidence".
""hey judge, I know the undercover cop busted me for selling him a bag of dope, but it wasn't dope . . . it was oregano.""
What part of "He was not selling it" don't you understand?
Exactly. Bizarre laws like that, the kind that regularly get cited in Reader's Digest funny fillers, are always concocted t cover some specific emergency, and enforced very selectively. the city of Phoenix has an ordinance against driving more than twice around a circular street in a three-hour period. It was designed to control teenage "cruising" at two specific shopping malls.