Feds will retry pot activist (our tax dollars on drugs)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/13/2007 | Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I bet the libs wished that Gonzolas had fired this particular U.S. Attorney.

Actually, this US Attorney, Scott Schools, is the interim replacement for one of the eight attornies that Gonzales did fire.

[socrates_shoe]

> Actually, this US Attorney, Scott Schools, is the interim
> replacement for one of the eight attornies that Gonzales
> did fire.

Maybe his real goal is to piss SF off badly enough to secede, thus removing Pelosi as speaker of the house?

[j/k] *sort of*

[hodaka]

I always like watching the drug bust that are made on that television show Cops. Most of the time they have around ten police officers busting people for buying or selling small bags of pot. I will bet you that it cost the police department more in what they paid in man power compared to what they actually seize.

[socrates_shoe]

It’s hard to see the humor, though, in coughing up $300 a year for each and every family of four in the US to pay for the nonsense.

If cops didn’t have **REAL** work to do, it might make sense, just so they could “keep their hand in”, so to speak. But I haven’t noticed any catastrophic drop in the rates of murder, rape and robbery that would indicate the police should be that idle...

[TKDietz]

If they wish to pursue him on something they can actually punish him for that would be one thing, but to spend a lot of money and manpower trying to get a conviction for which they can’t even punish him is just beyond ridiculous. I hope these idiots get their asses handed to them in court, not that it matters because nothing bad will happen to Rosenthal even if they win. I’m thinking jury nullification is a definite possibility this time though. This next trial is liable to end in a mistrial or an outright acquittal. It won’t cost Rosenthal a dime as he has plenty of supporters raising money for him. He’s getting more than his fifteen minutes of fame out of this and it’s probably selling a lot of books for him. He’ll make out like a bandit. The feds are coming out looking like fools, and the medical marijuana and general marijuana legalization movements are getting a nice boost from all the publicity. I agree, the feds need to go full steam ahead with this prosecution.

[Chena]

Nothing like a few hundred thousand dollars thrown down a rat hole for no purpose except to highlight that, whatever the effects of drugs, the "war on drugs" has rotted public officials' common sense.

Isn't THAT the truth. It makes me sick.

[Moonman62]

My guess is that a conviction on the new cultivation charges will lead to a refiling of the tax and money laundering charges.

[Moonman62]

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