But what happens if you are stopped with pills in your car and *do not* have the bottle or the prescription on them at the time.  I'm sure not everyone carries their bottle around with them.  I saw an episode of COPS once in which a girl was stopped for speeding and the officer found Soma pills in her car.  They were in a bag, and she didn't have any proof that she didn't obtain them illegally (even though she looked like a crackhead and probably did), so she was arrested.

Does this always happen, even to people who are using the drug as prescribed yet do not happen to have their prescription on hand?  Has this ever happened to you guys?

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That's how it works.

EDIT: That's what happens for prescription drugs only.
If it's over the counter crap it doesn't matter.
But for anything with a prescription they usually arrest you.

Post edited at 9:24 am on Jan. 12, 2009 by roflfuckyou

As for not having the bottle on you and getting busted? Nothing. You go to court and contest it...and win....if it even gets that far.

Post edited at 9:25 am on Jan. 12, 2009 by sykexl

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If you don't have evidence that they weren't obtained illegally they will charge you, but if you can provide the evidence late, ie going home and getting it - you won't be.

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Exactly.

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I suppose it should be asked why the pills were in a position that a cop could see them to begin with.

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Eh, everyone was taking them, people were holding them, I guess everyone was too scared to think of hiding them.  They're all drug addicts too.

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This all seems like a whole lot of trouble for regular, decent people who did not obtain the drug illegally to go through. So now even non-drug-abusers are falling victim to the War on Drugs? This is the saddest thing ever.

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Well hopefully people who have to drive around with prescription drugs, for whatever reason, are smart enough to have the actual prescription with them if, for whatever reason, they happen to have the bottle or pills out and about if they get pulled over. I vote you and your addict friends are just not that smart.


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This all seems like a whole lot of trouble for regular, decent people who did not obtain the drug illegally to go through. So now even non-drug-abusers are falling victim to the War on Drugs? This is the saddest thing ever.

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It's sad but only because there are people who have made the situation bad enough that it's warranted. I know it sounds dumb but you can't always look at a person and say, "He's a drug user. He's not. She is. He's not." and people do abuse these drugs. There are drugs you can't even purchase over the counter anymore without an ID and Xanax is one of the most abused of its kind and, unless I misunderstood your OP, you were abusing them yourself and I highly doubt that if I were to see you in person, I'd say to myself, "Oh yeah, that guy right that abuses Xanax for sure.".

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Quote: from Rainbow Blight at 12:28 pm on Jan. 12, 2009

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This all seems like a whole lot of trouble for regular, decent people who did not obtain the drug illegally to go through.  So now even non-drug-abusers are falling victim to the War on Drugs?  This is the saddest thing ever.

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Well hopefully people who have to drive around with prescription drugs, for whatever reason, are smart enough to have the actual prescription with them if, for whatever reason, they happen to have the bottle or pills out and about if they get pulled over. I vote you and your addict friends are just not that smart.

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Well, the fact that they abuse drugs in the first place makes them appear, *ahem*...a little...slow?...put kindly... And I must say, it's kind of funny that he would say that it's sad that this is what things have come to because he's one of the people who have brought it to this so he, as just another addict or at least someone who associates with them (in which case, they're among the people who have brought the situation to this), has little reason to complain.

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