[rb22982]

That's fine though, we'd still save 20 billion or more a year (counting money sent over seas for it) cutting it off federal. But I'm pretty sure that any law that made marijuana possession like that of 1st degree murder would be struct down as cruel and unusual.

[Texasforever]

That's fine though, we'd still save 20 billion or more a year (counting money sent over seas for it) cutting it off federal. But I'm pretty sure that any law that made marijuana possession like that of 1st degree murder would be struct down as cruel and unusual.

The fact is that the poster was passing on an urbane legend. In the 70's Teaxs law could get you hard time in the cotton patch but not for a damn seed and no one went up for more than 5 years for possession.