Are Pot Users Criminals? The Tragic Case of Rachel Hoffman

ABC News ^ | July 24, 2008 | BRIAN ROSS and VIC WALTER

[bamahead]

Video at link with more on the case.

This is really something else...

[bamahead]

The young woman received no training before being sent to an undercover meeting to buy a large amount of drugs and a handgun from two suspects

[bigfootbob]

This is wrong on too many levels. God forgive us.

[kms61]

I wish I could say I was shocked, but I’m not. One more time: The. Police. Are. Not. Your. Friends. This chief should be fired and face charges.

[Cicero]

Something is sadly wrong with the justice system in Florida. I suppose we only read about the bad cases, but there sure are a lot of them.

[rawcatslyentist]

Aggrivated agriculture??? Felonious farming????

The leauuuu IS criminal.

Prohibition creates black markets.

Prohibition gave Joe Kennedy mega bucks!!!!

Prohibition today gives MS13 all the money they want!

Capitalism is the best weapon to defeat them. Legalize everything. Flood the market, sink the price/profits. Make the criminals find new employment.

[BreezyDog]

Legalize marijuana plain and simple. It is safer than alcohol.

[dragnet2]

Something is sadly wrong with the justice system in Florida

Well, they did get this cunning criminal off the streets....For ever...

[DariusBane]

Just Florida?

[Liberty Valance]

"The young woman, a recent graduate of Florida State University, was murdered during a botched sting operation two months ago."

My condolences to Rachel Hoffman's family and friends. The War On Drugs racks up one more notch.

[boogerbear]

It ain’t just Florida. Bought allergy medicine lately? Gave them your ID so the info will be collected and then passed onto the DEA who will decide whether or not your allergies are too severe? We’re all suspects now.

[herewego]

Saw a news/documentary that since weed is such the norm in Amsterdam it’s no longer cosidered “cool”.

[FFranco]

Legalize marijuana plain and simple. It is safer than alcohol.

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Right. The penalties faced for possession and use of marijuana are worse than the harmful effects from the drug. Our current drug laws lead our police departments and courts into illegality and corruption.

[Redcoat1982]

Pot should be legal, plain and simple.

[dalereed]

“Legalize marijuana plain and simple.”

Mandatory prison time @ hard labor for using it!!

From personal experience, never hire anyone that uses it, they think they are really doing a great job and they aren’t doing squat!

I fired them, no second chance!

[boogerbear]

You probably have a lot more employees smoking pot than you think. The one you fired was just one who couldn’t control his reality, people like that will screw up their lives with or without pot, if they can’t find a drug to hook onto people like that get dumb about the opposite sex.

[Redcoat1982]

I could say the same thing for alcohol users.

Pot is harmless.

[herewego]

that’s the only thing that’ll ruin the U.S. economy quicker than obama

[ConservaTexan]

She was a criminal looking to cut a deal to cut time off her punishment. It is unfortunate that she was killed. Had she not been caught twice in possession of a controlled substance, she would not have been in a position to choose between becoming a confidential informant or going to prison for four years. Sometimes doing drugs (even marijuana) has negative consequences.

Flame on!

[NoLibZone]

Use the money that would have gone to Dennis Jones and his staff pay and retirements to pay off Rachele parents.

What do the citizens need them for if untrained little girls are doing the work?