Reporter who quit on air to fight for pot legalization faces decades in prison
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Original | 28 September 2016 : Charlo Greene did not plan to curse on live television, but on 22 September 2014, the words came pouring out.
Then a reporter for KTVA, a station in Alaska, Greene ended her segment on marijuana by revealing that she was a proponent of legalization – and was the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, the subject of her news report.
“**** it, I quit,” she said, before abruptly walking off camera. The 26-year-old’s stunt shocked her colleagues and made her a viral sensation overnight.
She faces up to 54 years in prison if convicted of all 14 charges against her.
It cost $50k/year to incarcerate someone in Alaska back in 2009 - it's surely $55k or 60k now. Anyway, x54? That's $2 million and change. And for what? For opening a cannabis club. Now, the people buying from a cannabis club aren't the high school stoner or some tweeker who can't scrounge any meth so he's settling. They're people like Woody Harrelson or The Dude (or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing).
And they're the type that's such a scourge on society that you're going to throw away millions of dollars to keep them behind bars?
Nice allocation of limited fiscal resources there, Alaska...
It cost $50k/year to incarcerate someone in Alaska back in 2009 - it's surely $55k or 60k now. Anyway, x54? That's $2 million and change. And for what? For opening a cannabis club. Now, the people buying from a cannabis club aren't the high school stoner or some tweeker who can't scrounge any meth so he's settling. They're people like Woody Harrelson or The Dude (or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing).
And they're the type that's such a scourge on society that you're going to throw away millions of dollars to keep them behind bars?
Nice allocation of limited fiscal resources there, Alaska...
I agree. They added charges on too. They're acting like pretty teenage girls. At $55k a year over 54 years it's closer to $3 million dollars. That's with the cost staying static, which it won't. There is no way it wouldn't increase, so it would exceed $3 million dollars...if she's convicted on all charges, gets maximum sentencing, and serves all of her time.
The war on drugs is such a joke. They are doing all this to her over a plant. They need to get a job. Oh wait, that's what the war on drugs is: a big jobs program, thus they so fiercely keep the war alive.
So... F*** the constitution and freedom of speech?
Freedom of speech has limits, especially when it comes to the public airwaves. See "The Seven Dirty Words"
But.. Yeah.. "Facing 54 years" is crap.. She'll wind up with a year or two, IF they decide to sentence her to jail. She could very well get probation, as it looks like each statute is a 3 year statute.
the only way she gets the max is if she's sentenced to the max on each count and the sentences are set to run consecutively. That don't happen..
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That's with the cost staying static, which it won't. There is no way it wouldn't increase, so it would exceed $3 million dollars...if she's convicted on all charges, gets maximum sentencing, and serves all of her time.
