Thats just fucking Nuts. My local Sheriff just had to release some rocket scientists because they thought they were carrying a huge cache of X, yet it turns out the shit was fake. They go free because they didn't try to sell it. The kid knows it's fake, yet he gets charged. Also, don't think for one second that little prick wasn't running around school bigtiming like he was carrying a bunch of dope. It's just the punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime.

I'd link this, but it isn't worth registering for my local rag:
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'Ecstasy' pills seized by deputies are fake


Published February 17, 2006
What deputies thought to be the largest load of club drugs seized locally, turned out to be a large stash of fake ecstasy pills.

Spartanburg County deputies announced Feb. 7 that Gavin Fitzgerald Mcaulay of Atlanta and Walter David Smith of Covington, Ga., were trafficking 10,763 ecstasy pills on I-85 heading toward Atlanta.

On Thursday, authorities announced that all the trafficking charges against the men had been dropped. Mcaulay still has a possession of marijuana charge against him.

Deputies had stopped Smith and Mcaulay for a traffic violation and later asked to search their 2005 Chrysler Sebring. Inside the vehicle, deputies found several bags of what appeared to be ecstasy tablets with smiley faces and sunflowers stamped on them -- the street value of which was initially estimated at $80,000 to $100,000. Recent field tests, however, determined the tablets were not ecstasy.

The tests indicated the presence of MDMA -- an active ingredient in ecstasy -- but the rest of the tablets' composition consisted of over-the-counter medications.

Sheriff Chuck Wright said he believes the two men did not know the pills were fake.

"If they did (know) they would have been protesting," Wright said of the arrest.

The Sheriff's Office was unable to prove the suspects intended to sell the faux ecstasy and dropped the drug trafficking charges.

"It is not against the law to possess a fake ecstasy pill," Wright said. "It is against the law to sell it as an ecstasy pill, though. Had they tried to sell it to one our undercover operators, it would have been different."