Last week, a Montana judge admitted that it was increasingly difficult for the courts to seat a jury liable to convict over simple possession of marijuana.
This week, Reverend Pat Robertson is promoting the reform of America’s draconian drug laws:
“We’re locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana and the next thing you know they’ve got ten years – they’ve got mandatory sentences and these judges, they throw up their hand and say ‘What can we do, it’s mandatory sentences.’ We’ve got to take a look at what we’re considering crimes, and that’s one of them. I mean, I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just believe criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of just a few ounces of pot, and that kind of thing, I mean it’s costing us a fortune, and it’s ruining young people. The young people go into prisons, they go in as youths, and they come out as hardened criminals.
See also:
- RawStory: Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana legalization
- Right on Crime
- Reason Mag: Beyond Bars: A new project has conservatives thinking more seriously about crime.
- Pete Guither: Pat Robertson, voice of sanity in the Drug War (updated)
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