If they don't claim it happens to every pot user who gets caught, there is no basis for your statement, "According to the pot activists he would have had all his property confiscated and served hard time, and his entire life ruined."
You tried to score cheap points with a bogus claim and got caught. Deal with it.
This is just one pot thread of thousands. It isn't a court room. See you on the next pot thread, or the next, or the next , or the next, LOL! As to what I said and what you said, I'll let the reader decide.