Has ANYONE ever been imprisoned for smoking pot?

09/21/02 | Libloather

[Libloather]

Liberteens come, and Liberteens go. But they seem to have an awful time with their own (and biggest - maybe only) issue - pot.

As far as anyone can tell, not ONE person has been placed behind bars for smoking pot. But the Liberteens paint an entirely different picture. They claim that HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS are behind bars for smoking.

Can anyone provide any proof either way?

[secretagent]

tpaine didn't make any claim about imprisonment for smoking pot in the page you linked.

[Libloather]

...we'll let your eventual mastery of subject-verb agreement be your private little triumph.

How cool is THAT? In the mean time, do you have an answer to the question starting the thread - Has ANYONE ever been imprisoned for smoking pot?

If you have no answer, the rest of the world-wide-web will understand. Good day...

[secretagent]

realpatriot71 didn't claim any imprisonment for smoking pot in the page you linked.

[rb22982]

About 40,000 are incarcerated for marijuana each year, at a cost of around 23,500 per year per person. I'll provide links later. I found that out myself a couple days ago.

[Libloather]

You two goobers have an open forum and fail to show up? Kinda lame - no?

[Texas Eagle]

Here's how it works: A guy smokes pot and then robs a convenience store -- voila!-- he becomes one of hundreds-of-thousands who are in prison because they smoked pot.

[rb22982]

After being imprisoned they usually get worse from my experience with my brother and his friends.

[breakem]

Has ANYONE ever been imprisoned for smoking pot?

FYI. In the 80s and early 90s thousands of parolees in CA were sent back to prison for dirty drug tests, positive for mj. Takes a lot morenow.

[rb22982]

That's fine though, we'd still save 20 billion or more a year (counting money sent over seas for it) cutting it off federal. But I'm pretty sure that any law that made marijuana possession like that of 1st degree murder would be struct down as cruel and unusual.

[Enlightiator]

"BJS officials also estimated that 42% of state "marijuana only" prisoners and 23% of federal "marijuana only" prisoners were incarcerated for possession, not "trafficking."[7] ("Trafficking" includes "possession with intent to distribute.") Applied to the previously calculated estimates, as adjusted for the June 1998 prisoner counts, there would be 7,400 state prisoners and 2,300 federal prisoners incarcerated for marijuana possession only, for a total of 9,700 prisoners."

You forgot the disclaimer - the above information you found with your nifty google search comes from the "Marijuana Policy Project", an "I want my whacky weed" support project. Since the stat selections and the "math" was done by the "MPP" (whether any toking was going on during said calcuations will be left unexplored), it may be best to ignore MPP propaganda and go to more credible sources. For example, for some credible information on drug use and crime, see:

Drug use and crime

Doing a Google search involves more than finding a site that has the "view" you want, it involves finding credible sources. Its pretty easy to find a given fruitcake site on the Web to "prove" nonsense.

[AzJP]

WE BROKE THE CODE!

HINTS:

Answering a question with another question is noted in mental logic of young children.

Purported queries are often simple riddles.

Thus, the answer is "probably", simply the word "probably". Statistically impossible to disprove given the large number of human lives on this earth, living and dead.

LL rejoinder, another question, is answered "you've asked a serious question of professionals...billing is $110 per hour..get your parents permission."

Either LL is having a ball on the family computer while the parents are out for the evening, or LL has wired an Etch-A-Sketch to the internet.

Have fun! We're going back to bridge and the fireplace and darn good merlot!

M and friends!

[willyone]

are you stupid? In order to smoke it you have to hold it therefore possess it. In the last fifteen years I doubt if many have done time for it. But in the sixties and even the seventies several states had life terms for using and /or possessing.

[Texasforever]

That's fine though, we'd still save 20 billion or more a year (counting money sent over seas for it) cutting it off federal. But I'm pretty sure that any law that made marijuana possession like that of 1st degree murder would be struct down as cruel and unusual.

The fact is that the poster was passing on an urbane legend. In the 70's Teaxs law could get you hard time in the cotton patch but not for a damn seed and no one went up for more than 5 years for possession.

[Libloather]

In the 80s and early 90s thousands of parolees in CA were sent back to prison for dirty drug tests, positive for mj.

That's close but still doesn't answer the question. Please, try again...

[CapandBall]

The answer is "Yes".

Did you get through 2nd grade? Smoking is the verb. Pot is the noun. A noun is a person, place or thing. In this case, a "thing". The charge is "Possession of a controlled substance". This "thing" (pot) is a controlled substance. When you go to court, the cop must have physical evidence, the "thing". Without it he has no case. duh?

Let me explain it to you like you were (are?) a 5 year old. In order to throw(verb) a ball(noun), you must have a ball. In order to ride(verb) a bike(noun), you must have a bike. The verb is the operator, the noun is the operand.

This is the syntax of a logical operation. Debating it is just childish to anybody who speaks the english language.

To reiterate, people are inprisioned for "possession" of pot. They are inprisoned for the noun, not the verb. Indeed thay can also inprisioned for culitvation (a verb) and for distrubution (a verb).

What really is you point? Your argument might just as well be "has anyone been imprisioned for killing(verb) a man(noun)". Killing is not illegal (like squashing a bug), but killing a man could be. I don't have a dog in this pot/liberteen fight.

[rb22982]

You are right, I was just talking about federal vs state laws against drugs.

[breakem]

That's the info I have. I am well aware of the difference between parole violation and initial sentence. I can assure you it feels the same to the individual going back.

In the 60s and 70s Playboy had a legal fund and used it to provide defense and appeals to some folks who were imprisioned for posession and use. Do your own homework, it's your topic.

[Libloather]

Answering a question with another question is noted in mental logic of young children.

Answering the question with an answer would help greatly.

The question is - Has ANYONE ever been imprisoned for smoking pot?

Got an answer?