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To: Lurking Libertarian
9,700 in prison times $40,000 (rough estimate on cost per inmate) = $388,000,000. Whoever thinks spending that kind of money to lock up pot smokers must be getting a good chunk of it paid to them, or are completly sick in the head.
418 posted on 09/30/2002 9:53:22 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Dakmar; Libloather; Kevin Curry
I came to this thread late, and I now realize that the point someone was trying to make was that there is no law against "smoking" marijuana as opposed to "possession" of marijuana. As a lawyer, I can tell you that anyone smoking marijuana is, by legal definition, "possessing" it.
419 posted on 09/30/2002 10:00:41 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
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To: Dakmar
...lock up pot smokers...

So far, it's been determined that the UCMJ has imprisonment provisions for smoking pot. Do you know of any others?

423 posted on 09/30/2002 5:08:26 PM PDT by Libloather
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