Quoted: Nice pics!
Although I think they should just make it legal, get the pot heads out of jail, and put dangerous folks behind bars.... it's still an awesome story
- BG
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Yeah, an often repeated and wrong theory.
If you go to the jail in my community, there are 1,000 inmates appx. For a while the County Exec, was saying there could be large saving if all the non-violent, inmates incarcerated for drug possesion were released.
I'll point out that "legalization" advocated consider possesion irrespective of amount. So an ounce, pound, metric ton, or cubic yard is "possesion" only to them. Most other people will say that amount possesed makes the distinction between "possesion" and "possesion with intent to distribute".
Also when someone would ask the jail "how many people are in jail with drug charges, or convictions"? The jail would print of a list of EVERY inmate with a drug charge. That list didn't exclude any other charges. In fact the list would have to be manually checked against jail records to find other charges for each individual.
In my area the are appx 20 LEA's. Only 1, WSP, can't write NON-CRIMINAL citations for possesion of small amounts of MJ. All the others can write civil citations for MJ possesion. The cut off line is one ounce. If you get a civil citation, and you are founf guilty the max punsihment is $$$$$$$ if you don't pay the $$$$$$$, your driver's license is suspended until you pay. Jail time isn't a possibility.
Criminal possesion of MJ is a misdemeanor, up to 9 months in jail (real sentences are a fraction of that, if jail time is even given).
If you have a prior drug conviction, possesion of MJ is a felony.
So now you know how things work around here.
After all that wanna guess how many people, out of 1,000, were in jail for
just possesion of MJ?
After manually searching the records, looking for inmates that were only in jail on possesion of MJ they discovered there was exactly ...................................................................1 person.
I hope I see a property tax reduction not that that burden has been reduced.