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Hypothetically- breaking all the possible laws

AromaticCompound - 26-2-2019 at 12:42

Supposing you have a laboratory and police comes and they find you with:
- chemical weapons ( and basically I mean schedule 1 ) - and not like 10 grams, I mean enough to kill thousands. ( let's say 2 kilos of sarin or 1 kilo of VX )
- drugs. And i mean in total over 1 kg of drugs - and also, for example in the EU large quantities of category 1 precursors. And you have variety ( basically they can find out that you could also make what drug you wanted to do )
- explosives. Basically over 1-2 kg equivalent of tnt .
And maybe other laws depending on each country's laws, but I think all these 3 apply to each of us ( the first 2 for sure ).
The question is : how many years of prison would you expect to receive ? I'm just wondering how much can you basically receive just for having some "chemicals", without selling/using them to kill. It's just meant to be a funny question.
Oh, and part 2 :
Supposing that drugs were not drugs( thus, legal ), would any of them find any use in chemistry ? I mean, not to be a "final product"

Ubya - 26-2-2019 at 14:50

not using or selling an illegal substance is not an excuse, if the police finds 1kg of heroin in my home you can be pretty sure i'm going to jail even if i was just keeping it under my bed. just the possession is illegal.
i'm not a lawyer so i don't know how many years of prison are e quivalent for the possession of what you mentioned, plus i would think that it depends on the country you are in.
i think what would impact more would be the 1kg of nerv agents and the kg of drugs, 1kg of explosives in the end is not that much

j_sum1 - 26-2-2019 at 14:54

Moving to L&S. Probably belongs in Whimsy but the OP does not have access.
It does not seem like the most productive hypothetical discussion IMO.

fusso - 26-2-2019 at 14:57

What, PhD, ur gonna commit some crimes? Sorry, we don't do that here.jpg

morganbw - 26-2-2019 at 15:30

Quote: Originally posted by AromaticCompound  
Supposing you have a laboratory and police comes and they find you with:
- chemical weapons ( and basically I mean schedule 1 ) - and not like 10 grams, I mean enough to kill thousands. ( let's say 2 kilos of sarin or 1 kilo of VX )
- drugs. And i mean in total over 1 kg of drugs - and also, for example in the EU large quantities of category 1 precursors. And you have variety ( basically they can find out that you could also make what drug you wanted to do )
- explosives. Basically over 1-2 kg equivalent of tnt .
And maybe other laws depending on each country's laws, but I think all these 3 apply to each of us ( the first 2 for sure ).
The question is : how many years of prison would you expect to receive ? I'm just wondering how much can you basically receive just for having some "chemicals", without selling/using them to kill. It's just meant to be a funny question.
Oh, and part 2 :
Supposing that drugs were not drugs( thus, legal ), would any of them find any use in chemistry ? I mean, not to be a "final product"


This was a truly odd first post. I have no answers for you except to think about how weird the post was. Perhaps a good nights sleep?

mayko - 26-2-2019 at 16:14

This thread has a theme tune now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU

VSEPR_VOID - 26-2-2019 at 19:36

Quote: Originally posted by mayko  
This thread has a theme tune now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU


More like, "FBI OPEN UP!"

AromaticCompound - 27-2-2019 at 04:57

morganbw, yes, probably I didn't sleep well. But I was just wondering how much a person can get by doing shit alone :))