[Dane]

However, what do you think happens to families when their daddy is thrown in prison for marijuana? The family is still broken, and the lives are still wasted, and now the rest of the family has lost a source of income.

Oh please spare me the tired bleeding heart liberal rhetoric. Hardly anyone gets thrown in jail for a joint and you know it.

Just an opinion maybe you should leave college and see how the real world works. You will have to someday, unless you are going to try to live in the womb of academia forever.

[rb22982]

In 2000, 46.5 percent of the 1,579,566 total arrests for drug abuse violations were for marijuana -- a total of 734,497. Of those, 646,042 people were arrested for possession alone. This is an increase over 1999, when a total of 704,812 Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses, of which 620,541 were for possession alone.

Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 2000 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 2001), pp. 215-216, Tables 29 and 4.1; Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 1999 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 2000), pp. 211-212; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 1998 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1999), pp. 209-210; FBI, UCR for the US 1995 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1996), pp. 207-208; FBI, UCR for the US 1990 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1991), pp. 173-174; FBI, UCR for the US 1980 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1981), pp. 189-191.

Btw I am in the real world. I work full time, pay for my apartment, my car, my insurance, my part time college, my food and everything else. Your condescending attitude is absolutely pathetic.