[wienerdog.com]

Thank you. Now that we have finally, over the past 24 hours and 200 some posts, eliminated your well-worn straw man from the argument, maybe we can continue.

You will recall that this thread is about marijuana. Do you think it is a good thing to lock up a 92-year old woman to "send her a message?"

[Dane]

Thank you. Now that we have finally, over the past 24 hours and 200 some posts, eliminated your well-worn straw man from the argument, maybe we can continue.

Actually my original post was to dead about his blanket statement about "the state of incarceration being the 38th largest state", which I thought basically stated that all incarceration is bad for society and then I got into a discussion saying that tough law and order mayors such as Guiliani have brought crime down.

You will recall that this thread is about marijuana. Do you think it is a good thing to lock up a 92-year old woman to "send her a message?"

Marijuana is against the law and she has been on probation four times before. You can debate if marijuana should be legal or not. You think that marijuana should be legal, I don't. I beleive that marijuana is a gateway into the drug culture.

But that brings me back to my Guiliani arguement. Guiliani cracked down on small and minor crimes and that in turn brought down rates of major crimes and you can't argue against that success. So yes if grandma is being a 4 time offender, yes she should go to jail, IMHO