Kid gets 2 years for selling a joint

[jamstigator]

Here's link to story: http://hammeroftruth.com/2006/08/20/teen-gets-two-years-for-one-joint/

Another: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54129

17 year-old kid gets TWO YEARS time for selling ONE JOINT. Hardcore violent crimes often get less time than that. That's just stupidly insane.

[LIP]

We know. That is exactly what is wrong with this world.

Cannabis users are getting longer sentences than murderers and rapists.

Stupid isnt it?

When ever i read something like that it makes me feel phyisically sick to know this world really is falling down, peice by peice.

[KLAW]

he was trying to rip off that cop sold him a joint for 20 dollars

[NightProwler]

how long would you go to prison for murder?

[make it legal]

some guy in vermont raped a little 12 year old girl. it was his third offence for the same thing. what did he get? this is no lie. two weeks.

[cuziwashigh420]

WHAT! That is so unbelievibly fucked up.

[Alive]

that made me re-think dealing during school

[tyrantowns]

That must have been a colossal joint.

[az666]

Thats fucked up!! :(

"Mandatory prison for anyone arrested within 1000ft of a school."
got a cool vid about the kid
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/050506greatbarringtonflash.cfm

[jcrook5]

wow. that just fucking made me angry. that kid should have had a better lawyer is all i have to say. but damn, i bitch about drug laws all the time but when i see things like that i really get worked up. what in the hell is wrong with this country. politicians needs to open their fuckign eyes. this is rediculous

[Nochowderforyou]

some guy in vermont raped a little 12 year old girl. it was his third offence for the same thing. what did he get? this is no lie. two weeks.

Wow, that's brutal.

A few years ago we had a man hit our Premier in the face with a pie at a BBQ he was attending. The man got charged with assault and was sent to prison for 34 days.

Now, another case last summer involved two 16yr old kids waiting at a bus stop. One kid confronted another and said he owed him $60, and it was true, he did. What ended up happening is the kid who owed money, got stabbed several times in broad daylight, and he died from vital organs being hit. Not only that, the kid who stabbed, tried to casually get on the next bus that came along. This 16yr old boy who killed the other child got 3months in big boy jail, and 1 yr probation.

Lets see...man hits Premier in face with pie gets 34 days in jail, and a kid who stabbed another kid, to death, over $60 fucking dollars, gets 90days in jail. Does that make much sense?

Another case in Edmonton about a month ago involved 3 teenagers, under the age of 18, who beat a man to death on the bus. These teens got out on bail, for beating a man to death. The judge claims that they are young, and they will not likely to offend again. :confused: HUH?! So that makes it okay then? What about the mans family? He had kids...? What about them?

I hate the court system. Murders and sick fucks are getting away with hardly anything.

[cuziwashigh420]

This is why I cant do politics. The laws and people are such bullshit. Its way too frustrating cuz we cant really do anything about it.

[Lethal G]

The guy who killed my friend Neil (who I've talked about a few times on here) was driving drunk and hit him while he was out riding his bike. Neil's father is also a highway patrolman. However, the bastard was out on bond the day after he turned himself in, even though he KILLED my friend. It's truly fucked up.

[Jay Matix]

that's fuckin bullshit... earlier this summer my friend got caught with 2 ounces and a bunch of little baggies... the cop was cool... but he only got a 100$ fine... but then again it's in california where they don't really care about it, its decriminalized here...

[all ablaze]

2 years thats fucking typical. Almost every week in england there is storys in the press about people driving cars with no licence, no insurance, no tax and under the influence, who run people down (kill some of them) and get a fine in court. A few hundred quid for a life?.... its absolute shit.

[Skink]

I did not hit the link,but I am not a bit suprised...

[IamTheWalrus]

Im thinking maybe he should consider apealing his case because that is ridiculous, absolutly just i guess dumbassery, yes that is a word now

[SomeGuy]

This is why I cant do politics. The laws and people are such bullshit. Its way too frustrating cuz we cant really do anything about it.

Thats exactly why you SHOULD do politics. Be the change you want to see the world. Thats why im probaly going to go for a law degree then jump into politics.

[ChronicMike]

This has to stop.

[OfAmbivalence]

he probably would not have gotten in so much trouble if he hadnt benn in mass, mass has some of the most strict laws regarding marijuana in the country. It is utter bullshit that someone should get that much time, or ANY time for one fucking joint.

[Love Street]

poor fucker...maybe he shouldnt have ripped the cop off

[Reefer Rogue]

That's buns.

[Fabolous]

my self is looking at 3 to 4 years maybe somtime next month just for Delivering a $20 Bag. shit so fucking stupid i swear. (I'll try my best in court to clam it as mine to only get probation)

shit's so fucking dumb, this whole state of Michigan as caught a total of 300+ people for just weed alone this summer.

[jamstigator]

If cannabis really made people pyscho or whatever, I could see some harsh punishments. But it's like the most mellow drug there could be, and FAR more mellow than alcohol. How can we keep locking up pot smokers like we do? It's not humane. It's like locking up all the coffee drinkers or something. These people, at least many of them, would have been productive and peaceful members of society were it not for their imprisonment over a victimless crime. And we'll never even know what other social costs widescale crackdowns on cannabis do. Perhaps, were it not for being jailed, some of these people might have met and married someone and given birth to the next Einstein.

I find it totally ironic how we parade around the world espousing freedom, while at the same time we have more of our population imprisoned than any other developed country.