On May 13, 1:44 pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> Omelet wrote:
> > In article om>,
> > Food Snob > wrote:
>
> >>> It ain't rocket science!
>
> >> Really! I had cooked pot, I mean ate the stuff, back in the 70s. It
> >> tasted like crap. That was back when I LOVED smoking it, and I never
> >> repeated the eating it regimen.
>
> >> I no longer abuse even the legal drugs, but I'm sick of the stupid
> >> assed "war" on pot that puts people in jail. It's a waste of our
> >> taxes. Plenty of former, and even current law enforcement
> >> professionals agree.
>
> > You'll get no arguments from me... :-)
>
> > I have yet to ever meet a "violent" pothead, so why the jail sentence
> > that costs taxpayers MILLIONS (if not billions!).
>
> Doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, does it? Rapists, burglars, armed
> robbers get 5, 10, 15 year or more sentences. A person caught with pot in a
> quantity for private consumption may well get the same type of sentence,
> which is nuts and a major waste of taxpayer money.
>
> Jill

Has anyone suggested that your judicial system is warped?

Here possession is about a fine or a couple of weeks in jail (and
everyone, except our cowardly politicians who don't want to offend the
US drug czars, knows the law is stupid anyway.)

I believe we have even had appeals of extradition to the USA based on
the USA's mad laws.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada