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LHB Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 7:40 AM
I feel no obligation to obey any law that violates human rights. Abortion is a far more horrific problem than being prosecuted for smoking pot, but that doesn't mean that Federal Drug Laws have any more moral authority than judical precedent that prevents states from passing laws that forbid or drastically limit tha availability of abortions.
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SMyles Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 7:23 AM
And some of us are just naturally dopey. Don't ever try to sell yourself jb, it's against Federal law!
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Chris Williams, a Montana medical marijuana grower, faces at least five years in federal prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 1. The penalty seems unduly severe, especially because his business openly supplied marijuana to patients who were allowed to use it under state law.
Yet five years is a cakewalk compared to the sentence Williams originally faced, which would have kept the 38-year-old father behind bars for the rest of his life. The difference is due to an extremely unusual post-conviction agreement that highlights the enormous power prosecutors wield as a result of mandatory minimum sentences so grotesquely unjust that...
Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life: The Medical Marijuana Grower's Stark Choice