Congress to impose 5 years in prison for passing a joint

[GobGoober]

Congress to impose 5 years in prison for passing a joint
by Marijuana Policy Project press release (20 Apr, 2005)

Take action! Urge your U.S. representative and two U.S. senators to oppose harsh new mandatory minimum sentences.

Your immediate help is needed to defeat harsh new mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will soon consider a bill that would create draconian mandatory minimum sentences for a variety of nonviolent drug offenses, including marijuana. If this bill becomes law, anyone convicted in federal court of the crime of "enticing" someone "who has previously been enrolled in a drug treatment program" to "possess" marijuana will receive a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.

That's right: Passing a joint to someone who used to be in drug treatment will land you in federal prison for a minimum of five years

http://cannabisculture.com/articles/4313.html

[CoffeeCat]

1. Yowza...

This isn't one of the laws made "retroactive" by the new National ID legislation that is worming its way through Congress, is it?

:)

[frictionlessO]

2. Thatis just friggin' wrong.

Im stunned at the sheer stupidity and willful ignorance of the hardcore antipot freaks. This makes no sense what so ever, except for maybe more goodies for the police to steal and auction off in due process of confiscation. Oh also my guess is you could get a lot of libs and greens off the streets with something like this...

Every fuckin' day I get a wee bit closer to dropping the pacifism and picking up a weapon!!!

[westcor]

3. Are you kidding me??

Man this country really has lost its shit, whys everyone so down on weed? No cases of a single fucking death, give me a break. Im pissed, if this happens anything may happen!

[bryant69]

4. Well it's a good thing our prisons are practically empty

I mean think about the effect this sort of law would have if our prisons were packed to the gills!

Bryant
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[Walt Starr]

7. No doubt!

Think of how many prison cots would be filled from a single Cypress Hill concert.

[acmavm]

5. Putting someone in prison for FIVE years for a non-violent offense like

this????? We have one of if the the largest rate of incarcerated people on earth and some doofus comes up with an idea like this????

Maybe privatization of our penal system is going to be the big money maker if the second half of this decade.

[Solly Mack]

6. So it's better to Bogart than to pass the joint?

[LiberallyInclined]

8. well, from now on, if someone passes me a joint at a concert-

I'll just have to play it safe and finish it myself. :evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. I swear, the drug war has gone insane

The Minnesota legislature is considering a bill to ban Sudafed and other decongestants, because they contain pseudoephedrine, which can be used to make meth.

That's right. They want to ban Sudafed.

That makes about as much sense as banning sugar because some people might use it to make moonshine.

[madinmaryland]

11. They want to do that here in Maryland too.

Just crazy.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Another example of standing on a brick. . .

to kick a duck in the ass.


:evilfrown:

[LynneSin]

12. I don't need to do drugs to realize just how dumbass this is

The problem with our penal system is that we have too many non-violent offenders that go into the system and come out as even more violent members of society.

[EC]

13. Well, they sure are doing their best to make allot

of slave laborers aren't they...Take my word all the "new" deadbeats (bankraupcy law) and deadheads (this and other pot related laws) are going to end up being free labor...

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. Pot smokers make better worker bees for the corporate prison farms.

They have a much higher IQ than your average murderer or thief.

In two years, they will pass legislation for debtor's prisons. It's the natural repuke progression after this year's bankruptcy bill. The corporate prison business is about to boom.

[Double T]

15. Proof Positive That Our Politicians In Washington...........

....Have Nothing Serious Left To Do, So They Sit Around And Invent Stupid Laws Like This. Soon All Americans Won't Need Jobs Because Eventually We Will All Be In Prison. Make My Reservation Warden.

[H2O Man]

16. I'd be curious

to see if this is real.

[jayfish]

17. What If You Pass A Person Who Has Been In...

rehab a bag full of Oxycontin? Kidding aside, what penalties does the person who accepts the spleef face?

Jay

[KansDem]

18. "One will get you five..."

This is an ad campaign here in Kansas City. I've seen it on buses and it refers to using a gun in the commission of a crime, as in "use a gun and receive a mandatory 5-year prison sentence. The ad is ominous with the the "One will get you five" lettering appearing over a distorted image of a handgun. Its very effective.

However, am I to understand now that passing a joint is just as bad as using a gun in the commission of a crime?

[no_hypocrisy]

19. The NY Rockefeller Drug Laws go national . . .