Well, that's a heckuva Merry Christmas!
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Seems fair. I'm no fan of marijuana - but doesn't seem right to put it in the same category as the hardest of drugs.
@xenon said in Well, that's a heckuva Merry Christmas!:
Link to videoSeems fair. I'm no fan of marijuana - but doesn't seem right to put it in the same category as the hardest of drugs.
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Didn't we talk about this a while ago?
The number of marijuana offenders in prison on federal charges is relatively small. Most are state offenses, over which POTATUS has no jurisdiction.
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Didn't we talk about this a while ago?
The number of marijuana offenders in prison on federal charges is relatively small. Most are state offenses, over which POTATUS has no jurisdiction.
@George-K said in Well, that's a heckuva Merry Christmas!:
on federal charges is relatively small.
Unfortunately, thanks to our complex and oftentimes impenetrable hodgepodge of local, state and federal criminal justice databases nobody—not even the federal government—is privy to that exact number.
if you apply the earlier report’s substance-specific drug offense proportions to the new report’s updated state and federal prison population figures, you’d conclude that there around 32K cannabis prisoners (~22K state cannabis prisoners and ~10K federal facilities).
So why don’t we say there are 32K cannabis prisoners in the United States?
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Very few marijuana charges are on an island. They are normally combined with other charges. DUI, Firearms, Domestic Violence, Assault, Trafficking… In some cases, the drug charges represent parole violations, or the marijuana charges are an escalator for various charges. I don’t think that it can be or should be as simple as pardoning the Marijuana charges…
What about a guy serving time for Marijuana. He assaults another prisoner. Does he get released?
