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With or without the growing support for marijuana, this is ridiculous.
Our prisons are overpopulated as it. To put somoene in there for life for merely possessing 7lbs (admittedly, an absurdly large amount) of a drug, which is illegal for no consistently logical reason, that if it were to harm anyone, it would only harm the user?
Leave prisons for the rapists and murders. Pot heads need not be jailed for more than an overnight stay, at best (or worst?). Maybe it's ok for more intense drugs like heroin, but even they can't possibly deserve life in prison.
With or without the growing support for marijuana, this is ridiculous.
Our prisons are overpopulated as it. To put somoene in there for life for merely possessing 7lbs (admittedly, an absurdly large amount) of a drug, which is illegal for no consistently logical reason, that if it were to harm anyone, it would only harm the user?
Leave prisons for the rapists and murders. Pot heads need not be jailed for more than an overnight stay, at best (or worst?). Maybe it's ok for more intense drugs like heroin, but even they can't possibly deserve life in prison.
There is no justifiable reason for this at all.
It isn't justifiable but if you would have read the thread you would know he didn't get life in prison for this one act.
I've only now became aware of this story but according yo the reports I read, no he is still insisting he did nothing.
well then he either needs to man up, and fess up to what he did, or he needs to find new evidence that would cast enough doubt on the original verdict to warrant a new trial, and hopefully win that trial, and thus he would be released from jail with the conviction wiped clean. either way the ball is in the guys court he just needs to step ip one way or another.
A foolish atrocity....just another example of what the State has to offer human beings. Punishment in the absence of any crime except for the crime of being a human.
Having 7 pounds of marijuana is part of being human? Seriously?
It isn't justifiable but if you would have read the thread you would know he didn't get life in prison for this one act.
My point stands regardless of what actually happened. The fact that it was even considered as a possibility is just as severe a problem as him actually having to serve that time.
My point stands regardless of what actually happened.
IMO what actually happened is important.
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The fact that it was even considered as a possibility is just as severe a problem as him actually having to serve that time.
The idea of someone who continues to break the law even though they know the repercussions of doing that might be better off put away is valid. Not for pot though.
The idea of someone who continues to break the law even though they know the repercussions of doing that might be better off put away is valid. Not for pot though.
Your point? I never said what actually happened wasn't important. I thought I made my point very clear. Life in prison is an extremely harsh and unreasonable punishment for having pot, a drug that is incredibly tame, even when compared to certain legal ones. Offering such a punishment as a solution is outrageous, regardless if it was actually used. No different to me than torture. If I hear a cop threaten someone with torture, it's wrong, even if they don't actually torture someone.
Excessive punishment is unconstitutional, and offering something that is unconstitutional as an option is wrong.
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