Please bear with me here as I'm about done ranting. I just wanted to take a second to provide some legitimate numbers...
Police prosecuted 858,408 persons for marijuana violations in 2009, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The arrest total is the second highest ever reported by the FBI, and marks a 1.3 percent increase in the number of arrests reported in 2008 (847,864).
According to the report, marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (approximately 52 percent) of all drug arrests reported in the United States. A decade ago, marijuana arrests comprised just 44 percent of all drug arrests.
Approximately forty-six percent of all drug prosecutions nationwide are for marijuana possession.
American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That’s according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
According to the new BJS report, “Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004,” 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses. Combining these percentages with separate U.S. Department of Justice statistics on the total number of state and federal drug prisoners suggests that there are now about 33,655 state inmates and 10,785 federal inmates behind bars for marijuana offenses. The report failed to include estimates on the percentage of inmates incarcerated in county and/or local jails for pot-related offenses.
https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/1-billion-per-year-to-jail-marijuana-users/
Please bear with me here as I'm about done ranting. I just wanted to take a second to provide some legitimate numbers...
Police prosecuted 858,408 persons for marijuana violations in 2009, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The arrest total is the second highest ever reported by the FBI, and marks a 1.3 percent increase in the number of arrests reported in 2008 (847,864).
According to the report, marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (approximately 52 percent) of all drug arrests reported in the United States. A decade ago, marijuana arrests comprised just 44 percent of all drug arrests.
Approximately forty-six percent of all drug prosecutions nationwide are for marijuana possession.
American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That’s according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
According to the new BJS report, “Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004,” 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses. Combining these percentages with separate U.S. Department of Justice statistics on the total number of state and federal drug prisoners suggests that there are now about 33,655 state inmates and 10,785 federal inmates behind bars for marijuana offenses. The report failed to include estimates on the percentage of inmates incarcerated in county and/or local jails for pot-related offenses.
https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/1-billion-per-year-to-jail-marijuana-users/
In Canada, if you get caught with six plants and it's determined that you were growing for trafficking purposes, your minimum mandatory sentence will be twice as long (six mos.) as somebody that lures a child to watch porn or exposes himself on a playground. If you get caught with 201 plants, you will face a harsher mandatory minimum sentence than somebody that rapes a toddler.
Now of course the rapist will most certainly get a longer sentence and die in prison, but this still doesn't excuse the fact that Canada actually made the minimum shorter. In their eyes, I guess you're more of a nuisance to society if you grow marijuana than the guy that rapes a three year old child.
How disturbing is that?
Source: Cannabis Prohibition: A War on the People
In Canada, if you get caught with six plants and it's determined that you were growing for trafficking purposes, your minimum mandatory sentence will be twice as long (six mos.) as somebody that lures a child to watch porn or exposes himself on a playground. If you get caught with 201 plants, you will face a harsher mandatory minimum sentence than somebody that rapes a toddler.
Now of course the rapist will most certainly get a longer sentence and die in prison, but this still doesn't excuse the fact that Canada actually made the minimum shorter. In their eyes, I guess you're more of a nuisance to society if you grow marijuana than the guy that rapes a three year old child.
How disturbing is that?
Source: Cannabis Prohibition: A War on the People
A kid, probably in his early 20's just told me he lost a friend. His name was Curt. He drank too much and died of alcohol poisoning. He was 18. His friends threw him out of the car and left him on his mother's lawn. I guess he was discovered several hours later.
You watch a football game and see dozens of beer commercials. Once every 2 hours on average somebody 21 and younger dies from alcohol use. About 4,600 every year in the U.S. It's my opinion that you can blame some of this on prohibition and the propaganda surrounding marijuana that people get shoved down their throats. We all know that MJ has never killed anybody.
I always drank in my 20's (I could have died several times) and heavily partly because weed was illegal. Why do something illegal right? I assumed it was bad for you because, why question it? I thought it was common knowledge. I've had many good times drinking don't get me wrong, but weed is the best. I now know it's smarter, safer, healthier, and it's a better high. I haven't quit drinking, but I generally think alcohol sucks. If it disappeard I wouldn't be upset at all.
A kid, probably in his early 20's just told me he lost a friend. His name was Curt. He drank too much and died of alcohol poisoning. He was 18. His friends threw him out of the car and left him on his mother's lawn. I guess he was discovered several hours later.
You watch a football game and see dozens of beer commercials. Once every 2 hours on average somebody 21 and younger dies from alcohol use. About 4,600 every year in the U.S. It's my opinion that you can blame some of this on prohibition and the propaganda surrounding marijuana that people get shoved down their throats. We all know that MJ has never killed anybody.
I always drank in my 20's (I could have died several times) and heavily partly because weed was illegal. Why do something illegal right? I assumed it was bad for you because, why question it? I thought it was common knowledge. I've had many good times drinking don't get me wrong, but weed is the best. I now know it's smarter, safer, healthier, and it's a better high. I haven't quit drinking, but I generally think alcohol sucks. If it disappeard I wouldn't be upset at all.
you know its hard to take anything you say seriously when every thought starts off with something like this. It really is pathetic nowadays that people still use their race as an excuse as to why they are in the place they are.
People doing hard time for marijuana smoking, get fuckin real
you know its hard to take anything you say seriously when every thought starts off with something like this. It really is pathetic nowadays that people still use their race as an excuse as to why they are in the place they are.
People doing hard time for marijuana smoking, get fuckin real
If you choose to make use of any information on this website including online sports betting services from any websites that may be featured on this website, we strongly recommend that you carefully check your local laws before doing so. It is your sole responsibility to understand your local laws and observe them strictly. Covers does not provide any advice or guidance as to the legality of online sports betting or other online gambling activities within your jurisdiction and you are responsible for complying with laws that are applicable to you in your relevant locality. Covers disclaims all liability associated with your use of this website and use of any information contained on it. As a condition of using this website, you agree to hold the owner of this website harmless from any claims arising from your use of any services on any third party website that may be featured by Covers.