Obama says marijuana ‘no more dangerous than alcohol’

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149. When my editor at The Coastal Post asked I research just who it was

Sitting in California jail cells due to Marijuana use, I thought the answer would be serious drug dealers. Or even semi-serious drug dealers. I mean this was California and in 1996, we had passed HB 420, which allowed for medicinal use of marijuana.

I was shocked and surprised to find out, circa California prison system, year 2000, that many of the folks in jail were grandmothers with MS and people who never ever even did drugs, but got snitched on!

One of the saddest stories that I read was that of a young African American woman. Her grandmother, who had loved her very much, had died and left her some serious money. The young woman went out and bought a condo, and went to college, with her inheritance.

Bad news for her - a major drug lord was also a condo owner in her neighborhood. He got a crush on her, and started asking her out. She did not like him, and let him know that she was not going to date him.

SO he gets busted, but is told if he snitches, he can plead down. He tells them the young woman's name, and the local police are so cooperative they plant a brick of cocaine in her freezer. She ends up in jail, and of course, she has no one to snitch on, so she will be there til she has served her mandatory 20 years in jail, no possibility of parole.

But the drug pin went back out on the street, and is able to do almost anything he wants to do as he has that "Confidential Informant" privilege. Some of these CI's even kill people, without any consequences!