You are a narcotics detective with a large metropolitan department and have been on the job for 10 years. You take your job very seriously and recently arranged to bust up one of the largest marijuana operations that the city has ever seen. Your boss tells you that he is considering you for a promotion to Detective Sergeant. While out celebrating one night, your brother confides in you that his wife is very ill with cancer and she is very sick from her chemotherapy. So sick that she is unable to even stand up or hold their baby.

He pleads with you to please help him and his family and asks you where he can buy marijuana , so that he can give it to his wife to help with her side effects from the chemotherapy (the state you reside in does not recognize marijuana use for medicinal purposes and it is illegal). What do you do? Would you consider this a victimless crime (who really gets hurt from smoking pot for medical reasons)? Consider and outline formal and informal social control along with the conflict between the two.