You want to hang or kill somebody who smokes pot? Hmm that seems a bit over the top to me. I see people do more evil & harm when they drink then smoke pot. And jail sentences are not short, we have people in jail for years for pot while other crooks get soft sentences. Most people I know & I am 53 have at least tried pot & I wouldn’t want to see them all executed. As the parent of a former drug addict who is clean & sober it saddens me to think you would want my daughter dead. People do make mistakes & they can change their lives. Granted not all will get clean & sober. Who here has not made mistakes? I made many in my life & learned from them.
Glad your daughter is clean and sober.
What I’ve said over and over and over again on these pro-stoner threads is that any use of drugs should be treated thusly: first offense is rehabilitation and a year of community service; second offense is “cold turkey” and five years in prison; third strike and you’re dead.
Drug trafficking would be punishable as a capital crime, period.
I believe people should be given a chance to go straight. But from experience, due to a front row seat at my sister and BIL’s adventure as professional musicians, the life of drugs, sex and rock ‘n roll isn’t easy to quit. (I reared their son, witnessed his pain of abandonment, and accompanied him to therapists for years. He’s doing OK now.)
There is growing clinical evidence of a connection between using marijuana and the development of schizophrenia. Remember that young man, name of Loughner, who shot a bunch of people in Tucson, Arizona, just a couple months ago? He was using marijuana, not alcohol.
For information see: What doubles the risk of developing psychosis?
http://www.amenclinics.com/blog/tag/marijuana/
There is a common thread that runs among all pro-drug war posters. They’re kooks. It’s shouldn’t be surprising that they have homicidal tendencies.