Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
Getting back on Topic then...
She broke the law. What ever state or Federal legislation it may be in the US, she broke it, plain and simple.
Many people are of the opinion that the people come above the law in the grand scheme of things. That because the Law is made to protect the people, that the Law then serves the people in a subserviant way.
People come under the Law for the greater good of the People. Yes, even the bad or insane laws. What ever the reason. No matter how justifiable in hers, yours or my eyes, she broke the law. If the penalty is 10 years, then until the people lobby the Government by way of petition or election, she frys in the big house like anyone else.
She is not special. She has no more rights in regard to the law than anyone else. She no doubt knew the cannabis laws along with all the other "informed" dope heads.
You can feel sympathy for her if you like. Dope Users unite! But eh, .....as the dope head said when knocking a packed cone onto the carpet.......Sh*t happens.
So no matter how outdated a law may be, how Draconian, and even how against the wishes of the majority of citizens, the law must stand because it is, after all, the LAW?? One hundred years from now the people of the future will look back on these times and shake their heads in amazement at how we handled this issue just like we look back 100 years ago and shake our heads at the general lynchings of African Americans in the South.
We HAD an election and the people of California voted to allow the medical use of marijuana with a doctors' prescription. John Ashcroft had an election too, and he lost to a DEAD guy
for Christ's sakes. Indoor growers get busted all the time in California, and the average first offense is a slap on the wrist and maybe a few weekends in County Jail. John Ashcroft is seeking ten years MINIMUM in a Federal Prison for these admitted marijuana activists in order to further his own political agenda. I'm still wondering how in the hell a guy who lost an election to a dead guy can subject the State of California to his personal will.
Exactly how is the criminal persuit of these activists "protecting the people?" Please, get real here. John Ashcroft is just as extreme in his viewpoints as the marijuana activists are in theirs. The fact you agree with him politically convinces me you must have been one of the dozen or so voters who voted for him over the dead guy.
sp00k, somehow I knew you would be the first one to state this woman deserves 10 years in a federal pen for trying to relieve the suffering of fellow human beings. At least you proved correct the assumptions I had already arrived at concerning your character.
