Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana

[NextLineIsMine]

I think these DEA agents and judges must truely feel marijuana is as wrong and sinful as rape when you see just how pissed they get that people smoke it. How they came to be that way is beyond me.

[fasterspider]

I am so grateful to be living in a State that is forward thinking enough to legalize medical marijuana. I may be a pot head stoner but I also use marijuana to relieve my extremely bad migraine headaches and arthritis.
Even before I got legal, the punishment for marijuana here is minimal to say the least.

[suhl]

it was for having a gun on him at the time of the sales. that is the more to the story part really. obviously a gun wouldnt normally get you fifty years

http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/cont...757&ct=2087213

and the judge had no choice, the guy was guilty and it was the minimum sentence. the supreme court had the opportunity and authority to change the sentence, or even put the law itself on trial, but they refused to hear it. i would guess that the justices appointed by bush didnt help this guy

[Frivolous248]

Yeah, thats some major BS.

I found this awhile ago, http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stori...arVictims.html

fucking crazy.

[Skink]

injustice is prevalent today... I myself have no need to carry a piece... If selling pot required me to carry a piece,needless to say,,,I would not do it...


You need to know the laws in your state and act appropriately... In my mind he was guilty of ignorance...

[suhl]

oh yeah, in my mind he was guilty as hell, the point is 55 years is harsh as fuck

[Pipe Dreams]

THats nuts and it makes me sick.

[chisme]

fucking wish all those cops got whats coming to em

[Reefer Rogue]

Justice has been served =/

[GetDown]

yeah these sentances are fucking ridicules, recently in australia we had a guy who was convicted of raping a 5 yr old girl, he only got 3 years in prison (eligible for probation after 1.5 years), whereas a pot dealer recently got about 5 years,

(though interesting about the fucking rapist, he lived in a small town, everyone knew the father of the girl and the rapist, shortly after he was arrested his house burned down and people were celibrating outside, including the girls father, police and fire dept said it started by natural causes and have ruled out any possibility of arson, gotta love Australia)