oh grrreeaat. now we’re going to have a bunch of unemployed dealers standing in line, on the dole. a real boost to the economy. 😉
btw – don’t bother renting “bully.” it’s really just kinda disturbing (same guy who did “kids” and “gummo”). true story tho. and kinda interesting. i hear the book is much better.
you know kevin, if there were more folks like you who don’t drink and don’t toke and have decent haircuts and didn’t smell really bad and weren’t constantly dealing with attacks of the munchies making cogent arguments for legalization of mary jane, then maybe something might happen (that wasn’t an endorsement).
personally, i think it will be a 10+ year waste of taxpayer dollars in the courts on this issue and we won’t have any resolution. frankly, i think issues like the reliance of fossil fuels and doing something about that could have a much stronger environmental and economic impact. let me call george w. on those. i’m sure he’d be interested in hearing from me.
the imprisonment thing does bother me a lot. like in michigan, i think it is, where even thinking about selling dope makes you a dealer? folks have been imprisoned for talking about sale (conspiracy).
i served on a jury a few years ago where we convicted a 19yr old kid of conspiracy (the facts were there). i was struck at how incredibly screwed up the system, the environment, and the people affected (sellers, addicts and neighborhood folks who have seen their homes turned into a warzone) were. it was really sad.
best,
mkg