Thank goodness our streets are free of scum like this Utah man (oh boy!)

[LynneSin]

Btw, if you haven't figured it out there is some :sarcasm: in that title!


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/national/11sentence.html

Prison Term of 55 Years for Drugs {ie Marijuana} Is Upheld

DENVER, Jan. 10 - A federal appeals court has upheld a 55-year prison term imposed on a Utah man with no criminal record who was convicted in 2003 of selling several hundred dollars worth of marijuana on three occasions.

The case of the man, Weldon H. Angelos, a record producer from Salt Lake City who was 22 at the time of his crime, has become a benchmark in the debate about sentencing rules and justice. The trial judge in the case complained in issuing the sentence, which was required by federal statutes, that he thought it excessive, and 29 former judges and prosecutors agreed, in a brief filed on Mr. Angelos's behalf.

But a three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision issued here late Monday, rejected those arguments. The sentence properly reflected the will of Congress, the court said, and was not cruel or unusual punishment. Mr. Angelos was reported by a witness to have been armed with a pistol during two of the drug sales - and requiring stiffer sentences in cases where drugs and violence are linked, the court said, is legitimate social policy.

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You know, I've never actually smoked pot in my lifetime but seriously this is stuff that was manufactored by GOD so I'm just not getting why anyone buying and/or selling pot should spend anytime behind jail

[The Animator]

1. Yeah just think of how much time "God" should spend behind bars.

Look at how many millions of kilos he's grown over the millenia.

[LynneSin]

2. This band local band that I adore did a song about the "War on Drugs"

and sang just about that. If people weren't meant to smoke it I would assume God would have made a different affect from smoking it.

Even tobacco, I know God put that there too but when you think about the chemicals that man has added to it who can blame us non-smokers for complaining?

[shoelace414]

3. Congress can pass stupid laws which is what the appeals court does

they are a check on Congress!!

[emald]

4. it's a most amazing hypocrisy

that this government propagates over so called "drugs". Alcohol and tobacco kill and destroy hundreds of times the amount of lives that any, or even all, street drugs do. The idea of "drug free zones" is so ludicrous that the first time I heard of it I spit my pop all over the floor I laughed so hard.
Just because society classifies a substance a "drug" we send people to doom. Since when can a weed be a drug? This country is hopeless and cruel. It will cease to exist as a country soon. So much the better.