Kid gets 2 years for selling a joint

[Love Street]

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

Love Street Reviewed by Love Street on 08-23-2006. Kid gets 2 years for selling a joint 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. Rating: 5

[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.