[EBUCK]

Nope, just the folks that were caught with pot. 700,000 people last year alone were arrested for possession. I don't really know how many were incarcerated for any length of time but even at 20% you've still got a $3,024,140,000 tab to pick up for housing pot smokers.

EBUCK

[deport]

Are dem pots in the fed pokey or state facilities?

[thatsnotnice]

Nope, just the folks that were caught with pot.

Just caught with pot? The guys that stole my ramset also were charged with possession, does that count them? According to our LEO’s it does. According to them, the reports they submit to state and fed cannot be culled by potheads to make a distinction between a robbery with pot possession vs. possession only.

I’ve never heard of anyone “just caught with pot” being in a federal prison. It’s always the guy who kills someone evading arrest and *just happens to be in possession of pot* that gets that sentence. Or the guy who shot a passenger on an AC transit bus in our town for smoking crack on the bus - when he was apprehended, he was found to possess pot. Surprise.

[Castlebar]

Nope, just the folks that were caught with pot. 700,000 people last year alone were arrested for possession. I don't really know how many were incarcerated for any length of time but even at 20% you've still got a $3,024,140,000 tab to pick up for housing pot smokers.

If you think that 20% of the federal inmate population is there for pot possession, you're smoking some of the extra powerful stuff.