Missouri just sentenced an old man to 10 years for growing.

[ttystikk]

A state that would put you in prison for a harmless plant is an authoritarian state.

That's what America has become.

Anyone who things otherwise is a fool.

 

[PokerJay83]

This is downright the most despicable thing I have ever read. I’m calling their mayor tomorrow to heckle them. Out with all incumbents!

 

[ToneOZ]

America is a Fascist State.

They've long since ground the Constitution under their boot heel.

Prisons for profit is just the latest guaranteed money maker for the corporate rentiers.

Im from the boot heel

 

[VONDANK420]

Still fucking with people. Makes me sick.
Probley kill someone there and get less time...

 

[mooray]

I don't like states that have no tolerance for weed. This case is complicated a little bit since he was a felon and they found guns in the home. Sounds like they worked out a deal where they dropped those charges and he agreed not to appeal, because he might have gotten some leniency on the weed, but I bet they'd have laid down the hammer on the gun charges. It might have been the best outcome for him under the circumstances.

 

[Kassiopeija]

I have a buddy that got 25 years for growing in Missouri. He had no priors of any kind. They nailed him to a wall. Now he is doing his time in Colorado where he can probably look out the cell window (if they have one) and see a dispensary or a warehouse grow in the distance.

IMO all such people should be pardoned right immediately upon law-change.

 

[Renfro]

IMO all such people should be pardoned right immediately upon law-change.

I agree, but they say that it's only posession cases not ppl that grew.

 

[Kassiopeija]

not ppl that grew.

the law should differentiate between personal small grow vs commercial organized crime greatly then. he already did some time so why not release him? It seems to me that ppl that are locked up are consequently being denied stuff to their benefit by the state.

 

[Renfro]

the law should differentiate between personal small grow vs commercial organized crime greatly then. he already did some time so why not release him? It seems to me that ppl that are locked up are consequently being denied stuff to their benefit by the state.

Well my friends grow wasn't personal. They went federal with the charges and put him in the colorado prison system. So now he can look out his cell window (if he has one) and probably see a commercial grow in the distance.

 

[Rob Roy]

the law should differentiate between personal small grow vs commercial organized crime greatly then. he already did some time so why not release him? It seems to me that ppl that are locked up are consequently being denied stuff to their benefit by the state.

The law is wrong.

It doesn't matter if you grow one scraggly plant or a million plants.

 

[thumper60]

I have a buddy that got 25 years for growing in Missouri. He had no priors of any kind. They nailed him to a wall. Now he is doing his time in Colorado where he can probably look out the cell window (if they have one) and see a dispensary or a warehouse grow in the distance.

dam that's tough someone I no here in maine got 22 yrs for killing someone while protecting a 300 plant outdoor grow. seems like a slap on the wrist now. if it was a fed case Missouri would have no say in the sentence?

 

[Renfro]

if it was a fed case Missouri would have no say in the sentence?

yep, even the judges hands were tied by federal mandatory minimums.

 

[thumper60]

yep, even the judges hands were tied by federal mandatory minimums.

I find that most {red states}anti pot have more strict laws than the feds mandatory mins. shit first timer 150 plants under fed 18-26 months.try that in a red state forget it 5-10 yrs.

 

[Renfro]

Yeah back then 14 grams possession was a felony in Missouri. Now they decriminalized possession of up to an ounce.

 

[thumper60]

Yeah back then 14 grams possession was a felony in Missouri. Now they decriminalized possession of up to an ounce.

dam half oz felony OUCH!we been decrimed here since 76 LOL any thing under 1 1|2 maybe a ticket now nobody cares about potLOL

 

[Renfro]

dam half oz felony OUCH!we been decrimed here since 76 LOL any thing under 1 1|2 maybe a ticket now nobody cares about potLOL

yeah I am glad to be in Colorado. I had a county police officer tell me that if he pulled me over and it looked like I had 5 pounds of less he wouldn't say anything if I wasn't stoned. That was without a key badge, with that I can carry as much as I want.

 

[Kassiopeija]

I wonder what it would mean to the rest of the world if all the states if the US would decriminalize cannabis alltogether?

 

[Frank Nitty]

Crazy man. How was he able to relocate to Colorado, was it the Feds who got him?

Shit yeah if he got 25 years!!!

 

[Frank Nitty]

I don't like states that have no tolerance for weed. This case is complicated a little bit since he was a felon and they found guns in the home. Sounds like they worked out a deal where they dropped those charges and he agreed not to appeal, because he might have gotten some leniency on the weed, but I bet they'd have laid down the hammer on the gun charges. It might have been the best outcome for him under the circumstances.

I would have never turned down my right to appeal!!! They would have to prove that I was selling weed to make that shit stick!!! The feds play a dirty game by making you think that they gave you the best deal possible

 

[Frank Nitty]

I would have never turned down my right to appeal!!! They would have to prove that I was selling weed to make that shit stick!!! The feds play a dirty game by making you think that they gave you the best deal possible

I know for a fact... They said 20,I fought it and got 7...