I am not sure whether America has more problems with the legal system or some of
those they declare as criminals. First of all pot has been part of the social landscape
of North America for generations. The system is trying to declare war on a social vice
not a criminal act. Booze was once the vice they filled the prisons with during the days
of prohibition now it pot. Contempt my foot, this guy continued to engage in an
activity that all kinds of people use including professionals within the legal system.
The other problem, is that the prisons are being privatized, and they need to fill those
prisons in order to pay for the infrastructure and the contracting out process. The new
reality is they are turning America into a prison camp, by breaking down the human rights
of citizens and turning them into so called criminals.
the most serious part of this is the sentencing of people to these institutions. It started
years ago with the concept of minimum sentences and expanded to zero tolerance and
from there to the three strikes rule. It is the latest bout of judicial insanity in the Excited
States of America. It will take a long time to break this cycle but just like wife beating or
juvenile delinquency. The only problem is the offenders are becoming a biggest problem.
America should be concentrating on the real criminals many found on Wall Street, the
brokers. Others found in the hall of government, along murderers, human traffickers,
contract killers, those engaged in honor killings, child molesters, including clergy, and the
crooked government officials. There is an overflow crowd if law enforcement chose to
go after them. Instead they put a little three time loser in jail for smoking pot, and we
all stand up and cheer. Why does this happen? Because the above mentioned criminals
own the system or use their vast sums of money to influence those who do.
It is a case of the fox managing the hen house.
