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Originally posted by Five-hole@May 25 2005, 04:42 PM
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/010374.html
Holy freaking cow.
This is the kind of thing that just incenses me when America blabs on about how it's spreading freedom to the oppressed peoples of the world. How, exactly, is throwing everybody in jail for 5 or 10 years -- as a minimum mandatory sentence -- dealing with the so-called "drug problem"? Don't bother with treatment, don't bother with cutting off the problem at the roots -- the growers and extremely high-level distributors -- let's throw parents in jail for 3 years if they have knowledge of their child being somehow involved with drugs and they don't report them within 24 hours to the DEA.
Freedom indeed.
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the bill would also create a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time conviction of distributing a small amount of marijuana to a person under 18 years of age ... and a 10-year sentence for a second offense of distributing marijuana to a person under 21. By comparison, the average time served by convicted rapists in this country is about seven years.
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Honestly I don't have a problem with it, and there are treatment programs available in jail.
But to me, if your giving dope to a kid under the age of 18, or somebody thats been in drug rehab, what do you expect? I have no sympathy at all for somebody who is encouraging drug use in minors or tempting somebody who's gone through drug treatment.
And if its a problem with the comparison of rape sentances to drug sentances, maybe its time for the Justice department to re-adress those sentances.
And how is this any kind of assault on freedom, last time I checked marijuana isn't legal in the states at this time in any quantity.
Just my two cents.