He wasn't an idiot, he was unlucky. The idiots are the people who would pass a law that allows the arrest of someone for being found with one gram of pot on them. The idiots are the ones who legally attack people for making their own free choice to use a relatively harmless plant for personal recreation, while sending other people overseas to invade and occupy smaller countries. The idiots are the people who design and build atomic bombs. And I could go on with further examples of extreme idiocy...but I won't.

However, when one lives in a society with idiotic laws and idiotic policies, both domestic and foreign, one is wise to act carefully and not run afoul of those laws. But if all the teenagers who've ever had a gram or more of pot on them were arrested, they've have to turn 3 or 4 states of the USA into a giant walled compound just to contain all of them! (standing room only) And that's why I say he was unlucky.