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Caught with as little as six plants go directly to jail!! What happens when people are caught with kiddy porn or video assaulting someone – shouldn’t they go directly to jail? Or is everyone not entitled to a fair trial? —Tired of our legal system
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.
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well now,o.p., unless you plan on going into politics, nothing will ever change for the good.
People caught with kiddie porn do go to jail…
I gave up on the legalization (and decriminalization) years ago. As long as the drug companies spew out their billions of tablets for all that ails us, there’s no fucking way a natural plant is gonna muscle in on their racket. As far as this present bullshit is concerned, what do you expect from a PM who can’t even look comfortable drinking a fucking beer?
What the Deuce! When did “the State” get the right to “detain” people who are violating “laws”
Someone get Jesse Ventura on the phone – assuming the Bilderberg Group haven’t already terminated him with extreme prejudice.
“Turn this plane around. We’re headed for Canada. I ain’t got time to bleed”
I surely hope the sick people into kiddie porn end up in prison (the thought of such people makes me sick), and video assaults … well the sentence varies depending on how violent the crime. Six plants is six plants….regardless it’s still illegal.
try putting a hit on one seb, and see what happens.
The Conservative government has to appease their ‘base’ and show that they are ‘tough on crime’. One way to demonstrate their zeal at getting drugs off the street (and into the hands of profiteering pharmaceutical companies where they belong) is to adopt almost zero tolerance towards possession of pot.
Carrying the amount that two friends could burn through in a mellow Saturday evening at home qualifies you to be a ‘drug trafficker’ in the eyes of the current government. This no doubt would provide loads of laughs to the bad hombres down Mexico way who are trafficking serious drugs and cutting their competitors’ heads off in the process.
The legal status of these kinds of consumables fluctuates with the passing of time. The years of prohibition in the U.S. made the regular consumption of alcohol illegal, and the impetus it gave to growing organized crime families obviously taught future generations of federal lawyers and law enforcement officers absolutely nothing.
Drunk driving is a serious problem in most jurisdictions, including Nova Scotia, but if memory serves the last two ‘famous’ people that get caught driving under the influence in this province got off with less than the proverbial slap on the wrist. Nobody even came close to going to prison.
I can’t take the government’s position on marijuana seriously when I see the alcohol-fueled carnage happening on the nation’s roads.
Don’t even get me started on the cocaine snorting former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.
sounds like you werent in there long enough OP. What a fuck up.