Wahington State has peculiar views, when it comes to constitutional rights.
Some years ago, shortly after the Washington State law passed, I had occasion to send a pipester friend a couple of ounces of pipe
tobacco. It was a pure gift: nowhere in the package was any remuneration mentioned. And note that there was never any question about the shipment was pipe
tobacco; the idea of it being that other substance which starts with "m" never came up.
I sent it as a first-class mail letter package. Someone in the post office smelled the
tobacco and alerted the Washington State heavies. The heavies delivered the package and put my friend through the third degree, to the extent that he had to hire an attorney to get him off the hook.
But I'm still in Dutch with Washington State. Obviously, for a class C felony, it's not worth their expense to try to extradite me from Illinois. But every couple of years, I get a letter from Washington State telling me to turn myself in for arraignment and prosecution.
Needless to say, I'll never ever set foot in Washington State.
Were I a retailer, I'd be loath to ship anything to Washington State. It's not worth their while to go after me, an individual, for a single class C felony. But a mail retailer would be juicy pickings if there were multiple class C felonies involved.
