Your identity and LEO

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We all have clever little handles that we use here. Me included. My reason for a handle is to hide my identity, however, I wonder if maybe I'm just being paranoid? Do we really need to hide our identity? I'm 48 and don't care about what my parents know, so that's not an issue. I mean really, is LEO going to swoop in and arrest everyone who claims to be someone who partakes? Wouldn't that just plug up the courts and jails?

I ask this because I was fooling around in the profile section and was about to put my "homepage" in, but then I started to think...

 

[Hippie Dickie]

i'm paranoid, too ... must be the pot.

 

[SmogTown]

I could care less. I'd just tell them they shouldn't believe everything they read on the net . After all who's to say we're not all serial liars.

 

[Happycamper]

Absoulutely all my posts are role playing a totally made up lifestyle I project on these forums

 

[lwien]

I'm not concerned in the least.

 

[dadesign]

yep i dont give a crap i think they have bigger fish besides i think i might see national legalization before i die so i can claim i was there fighting the good fight

 

[SometimesY]

I happen to live in a state (MA) where <1 oz has been decriminalized. I own my own business, and I'm 37. So, I really have nothing to fear.

Yet, I still don't "advertise", and my handle here is different than it is on "other" sites.

I really don't have a good reason why this is so, apart from agreeing with Hippie Dickie. In conversation, I'm much more forthcoming, but the Internet...

 

[standard]

MMJ patient here, just talking about taking my medicine.

 

[ChippyMalone]

Same here. But Chippy is the name of a homemade stuffed animal monster.

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

I only hide my identity so that @Seren won't figure out who I actually am and therefore stop talking to me.

I don't know about the rest of you...

 

[Seren]

I only hide mine so that @EveryDayAmnesiac can't find me! He's such a stalker!

 

[smokum]

I only hide mine because it's nobody's fuckin business but mine and those I 'want' to know

 

[VaporsVaporizer]

It doesn't really matter cause the Govt. is tracking all of us lol , but i use alias's on the web on forums because i hate that employers look you up and all the crazy people here

 

[scottg402]

Yeah I am more concerned for my identity as it pertains to my employer finding out but not so much from a legal standpoint. Gotta provide for my family!

 

[CarolKing]

I live in a legal state. I would not be comfortable using my real name. The job that I have is in a conservative field. There is still plenty of prejudice against cannabis in the community where I live. Not sure how my employer would handle the situation if they knew I used cannabis. Maybe someday I will work in a different field and not feel so paranoid. Better yet maybe I can retire in a few years. Folks shouldn't be made to feel ashamed to use cannabis medically or recreationally.

I do take pics of my vaporizer or herb sometimes and post here on FC. I don't know if I would feel comfortable doing that if I didn't live where things were legal.

EDT
I appreciate all who post pics of bud and vaporizers regardless where you live .

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

I don't know if I would feel comfortable doing that if I didn't live where things were legal.

But you gotta give props for those of us with the balls and/or stupidity to do so!

 

[scottg402]

I kinda look at the law enforcement piece of it like, "don't you guys have more important things to worry about?"

Gun control and violent crime are huge issues where I live so it would be pretty sad if law enforcement was focused on combing through FC as a means to "bust" people!

For the record I live in a medical state so at least there is a bit more liberal attitude around here which also makes me feel a bit safer.

 

[Enchantre]

I'm pretty public about my medical status & usage. It's really hard to hide something like this, even using stealthy vaporizers, when all my co-workers, friends, and family know me as a life-long non-smoker. Also, just being the person I am, I have a very hard time not just being myself...

I don't do FB, or Twitter, .. I do Instagram, but I generally have GPS/location turned off. I haven't really shown my face, either. This could change.