When you know that someone is doing something illegal, do you always call the cops?

I asked a question before about protecting children, and one of the questions was about smoking marijuana. Many people were in favor of people smoking weed being arrested.

So, here is a followup question: Say you have a friend, a good friend, and you and your friend are sitting around enjoying an adult beverage. Your friend pulls out a joint and lights it up. Do you reach for the phone and call the police immediately, because weed is illegal? What if the state where you lived had decriminalized possession of less than an ounce? Do you call the cops anyway and let them come out and weigh it?

Now let’s suppose that you are at a concert, outdoors in an ampitheater. You smell weed. Do you go report it and try to have the person arrested? What if you knew the person, and knew that the person was a single parent, and that being arrested would cause their child to be placed in foster care? Would you still want them arrested? Would it bother you if the child’s life were ruined by being horribly abused in the foster home, or would you just think “Too bad – it

It’s pointless to have people arrested for smoking weed anyways because marijuana shouldn’t be illegal. So, no, I would not call the cops in any of those cases. And I probably wouldn’t call the cops even if they were doing something that should be illegal because who wants to be a nark…