Posted on 02/03/2014 5:40:38 AM PST by balch3
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal tells CNN's Candy Crowley they are looking at lowering pot penalties in his state. Video at link.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You have to admit prisons are over crowded and too many violent offenders are in and out of prison. Kicking out the stoners frees up a lot of beds for the gangbangers IMO.
Prison for possession?
Nonsense. Please stop the hyperbole
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been paying attention to Jindal for quite some time and I am not impressed on iota. He’s a step or two above a Landrieu but that’s about it.
Hence, that is why the Media and GOP Establishment seem to like him.
I can’t afford to pay room and board for all these potheads anymore.
We have had people given life sentences for pot possession. Please! Lock up the murders, child molesters, etc. the War on Drugs has been an abysmal failure, resulting in a loss of rights, freedom.
Why does government try so hard to keep the leeches of society alive and reproducing? Even going so far as letting them to continue to consummate while they are imprisoned.
If the idiots on welfare want to kill themselves with drugs, let them I say.
Here we go. Time for another Social Conservative vs. Libertarian debate at FR! For what its worth, I don’t think simple posession of small amounts of pot without evidence of an intent to sell should be criminal. Its no different than drinking booze. And saying that does not mean I want to legalize cocaine or heroin. Its just a judgment call.
I agree. Poor personal choices should not be criminalized. The consequences of drug use inevitably deliver their own punishment without the need to pay taxes for additional police, judges, layers, prisons, and prison guards. The "War on Drugs" is nothing more than a patronage game for politicians.
What Jindal and most people do not understand is that the possession charge is easiest to prove and convict with. And why was the user caught in the first place?
They were committing assualt, burglary, theft, or a hundred other felonies. While holding.
Rather than waste precious money and court time in proving the more serious charges; it’s easy and convenient to have the perp plead to the drug charges and send him to prison.
So. To say that whatever percent of the prison population is there on drug charges alone is not accurate.
Traditional morality meant that individuals were to be responsible for themselves, not under threat by a coercive government. Nothing in the Constitution grants the federal govt the right to proclaim possession of some vegetables as worthy of imprisonment.
Bad news for jack-booted thugs everywhere.
If we would just execute the repeat murderers and child molesters and be done with it, our prisons would free up plenty of space for the potheads.
He’s another one off the vote for list.
Gee, maybe we should save prison for people who cheat, steal, and hurt other people instead of for people who smoke dried herbs.
Decriminalization makes sense. Legalization and Pot as “Medicine” is not good.
This is absolutely correct, but also not a very good defense. I don’t want thieves in jail for pot possession, I want them in jail for stealing. The plea bargain system distorts justice in a lot of ways, and this is one of the worse.
I wonder how many innocent people have been terrorized or even killed by the police when they execute a ‘no-knock’ warrant on the wrong house or on people being victimized by ‘swatting’.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.