From: Congressional Family Members Escape Mandatory Sentences
In January 1994, Dan Burton Jr., the son of U.S. Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), was arrested in Louisiana for transporting nearly eight pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his car. Rep.Burton is the chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Six months later, Burton was arrested again, this time at his Indianapolis apartment, where police found thirty marijuana plants and a shotgun with ammunition. Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute the case; Indiana prosecutors recommended dismissal of the charges against Burton; and a Louisiana judge sentenced him to community service (Associated Press, "Congressman's Son Arrested With 7 Pounds of Marijuana," Gary Post-Tribune, January 14, 1994, p. B5; Eric Schlosser, "More Reefer Madness," Atlantic Monthly, April 1997, pp. 90-102).
This is precisely the reason so much of this crap gets passed. It doesn't apply to the people who make it law. Ya just gotta wonder when was the last time a feral prosecutor refused to prosecute someobody busted with 7 lbs of pot,and didn't confiscate all their property and money.