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As we type, on a Saturday night there are millions of people out getting drunk doing more damage than those getting arrested for pot.
How many have you had?
Pot? None.
I don't care if you don't believe me.
Just like how some conservatives think the tea partiers give conservatives a bad name, I think regressive liberals and criminal sympathizes give the rest of us liberals a bad name.
Oh, alcohol tonight? None. My boyfriend and I enjoy our time together SOBER. We're watching house hunter international on netflix while in bed right now.
He's a college student. I'm an engineer. We don't really like the going-out-party scene thing.
Oh, alcohol tonight? None. My boyfriend and I enjoy our time together SOBER. We're watching house hunter international on netflix while in bed right now.
He's a college student. I'm an engineer. We don't really like the going-out-party scene thing.
Tonight? So you do drink.....and yet.....you support arresting people and putting them in jail for at the most, no worse.
[url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judge-regrets-55-year-marijuana-sentence/story?id=28869467]Former Federal Judge Regrets 55-Year Marijuana Sentence - ABC News[/url]
Did you bother to read the story you posted? You said people were serving time in Federal prisons for simple possession. I think I saw this story on Nightline. The man was a drug dealer and convicted during a sting operation. He was carrying an unregistered gun. As your article explains:
"The case went to Federal court and Angelos was convicted of selling narcotics while in possession of a firearm."
Saying that people are locked up simply for smoking pot is misleading and dishonest. Anyway, as the article also points out, the mandatory sentencing rules under which he was convicted were part of Reagan's "war on drugs" and had nothing to do with Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill.
I will agree, however, that 55 years is much too long. I also do not believe in mandatory sentences. Each case should be judged separately. Yes, it's true that the number or poor people and minorities incarcerated is disproportionate to the population, but that doesn't mean someone who commits a crime should get a slap on the wrist and sent home.
Saying that people are locked up simply for smoking pot is misleading and dishonest.
I never said that. Nobody is put in jail for smoking. They are put in jail for possession. Buy a mirror.
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