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I have a high-school friend in prison for 20+ years for marijuana-related charges. I now live in a recreationally legal state, the irony is not lost on me.
by subpixel 4y ago
I have a high-school friend in prison for 20+ years for marijuana-related charges.
I now live in a recreationally legal state, the irony is not lost on me.
- iinnPP 4y agoUS prisons are absolutely packed with young marijuana dealers/users with effectively lifetime sentences. Many of them are truly good people.
- rainworld 4y agoA small fraction is in for possession only, and even that is misleading considering the prevalence of plea deals and career criminals.
- andybak 4y agoWhen I was younger, a lot of my friends sold the occasional bit of pot. As far as I know the vast majority of them are productive members of society nowadays.
- treis 4y ago>US prisons are absolutely packed with young marijuana dealers/users with effectively lifetime sentences. No they aren't. Only 20% of inmates are in jail for drug offenses and only a tiny fraction (if there's even one) is on a life time sentence for dealing weed.
- cstejerean 4y agoEffectively a life sentence I think means they’ll have a hard time finding a job once they get out resulting in likely reoffending at some point and ending up back in jail.
- donkeyd 4y ago> Many of them are truly good people. If prison hasn't fucked them up. I really hope these people will find their way in society if there's ever a pardon, because it might be really had to adapt to normal life, even if you ended up in jail for something as stupidly innocuous as smoking weed.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> US prisons are absolutely packed with young marijuana dealers/users with effectively lifetime sentences. Just not at all true.
- whimsicalism 4y ago20+ years in the US? No gun related charge or priors with other drugs/guns? That is very unusual if so.