New Jersey Man Gets 20 Years For Growing 51 Marijuana Plants

Until it's legalized, If you don't want to do the time, don't do the the crime.

Home Sweet Home!

Lets all stop growing and smoking and just start killing people.....shorter sentences.

If I were him, I'd use the defense that my lawnmower was broken. Hopefully his HOA fine won't be too much.

In all seriousness though, this is someone's life that they are taking away. 20 years is a lot of time, and even if he survives prison, he'll never be the same again. And exactly who did he harm to deserve this? Nobody. He was just harvesting what the earth provides. 20 years in prison for being a farmer.

it seems that our crazy messed up laws proscute wrongly,by that i mean you can go out and murder someone and get less time than a man growing pot...and child molesters,murders,etc ..just seem to get a slap on the hand ..the laws are just backwards

MirrorLake you are right on. Even our own President laughs off the subject. The Public Opinion of smokers needs to change. How do You suppose we do that?

Part of the problem is that whenever you speak your mind about cannabis to a nonsmoker, they don't take you seriously. They don't take you seriously at all. People think that all drugs are the same: they make the user crazy, stupid, and a failure (no matter what).

This simply isn't true. Every drug is different. Not all drugs are chemically addictive. Not all drugs corrupt people morally. Not all drugs put people in a mindset to commit crimes or 'sinful' behaviors.

Alcohol, however, is a plague on society. But thankfully I can always go out and buy a 40oz to drown all my problems.

Some have touched on the subject at hand.. WTF can we do to open the governments eyes?

IMO.

All 30 million american smokers should go to the local police station with a blunt, bowl, bong, or white boy and walk in smoking the good...

02 had a good idea a petition; but thats been done, we need to step up the measures so it will be impossible to ignore us.

They can't arrest us all right? For some reason i don't think smokers will be down. Is it cause "they" classify us as burn outs and pot heads true? Are we to lazy or we just don't care...

Smokers seem to make good slaves for the prison compex.

This person looks familiar to me for some reason. Maybe we have done business before.

Hey somebody lifted topScruffies rock and he escaped. He deserves life in prison if anyone does for lack of knowledge and a brain for reasoning. Let the weed grower go and put him in there instead. He needs to realize Bush is out of office(Thank God) and he has no chance of a seat on the Supreme Court.(Thank God)

He deserves to burn in prison!!!!!!!!!

Addendum: Intoxicated drivers should be bitch-slapped at regular check-points on equal-distant intervals - all the way home.

We can hire out-of-work Chinese for this.

ugh. this is disgusting how we will put away someone for so long for growing a weed.

Ok,
WE the People, demand that marijuanna be legal to grow, to possess, to sell and to ingest.

We demand that sales of marijuanna in public places be legal, taxable and such markets controlled. Sales by private individuals shall be unregulated.

We demand that all people in custody for violation of any marijuana laws be released and their records shown as forgiven.

Shit - you could put together such a document with input by the current readers, right here.

Everybody puts in their gripes and suggestions - someone distills it - maybe toss it around until everyone is singing - and there you go...

I knew a guy who did nine years for a half joint.

You know, if you all really want to do something about the laws and importantly about people locked up because of pot, you have to do more than talk.

The process would be the whole political movement thing. The big, very, very big deal.

You'd get behind the right effort - or start your own web site to coordinate people on the web - maybe appeal, publicly, for all those on the web who are held together in the Obama address lists.

Build a movement and address all the issues, with no back-sliding on any aspect of your platform and demands.

Because the talk will stay just exactly where it is - unless you make the big commitment.

The way to make the thing go - is first to put together, in written form, a clearly worded document of intentions.

Once that's sitting there to read, your 99% of the way to the start.

holy crap. The poor bastard has to serve 5 and a half year before he can even apply for parole. That is is just pure fucking evil.

There needs to be something done about this. I understand the dude was probably selling and yeah, dealing in the past but, so what? He's growing a plant and there's a market and there are child molesters out there who get more lenient sentences. The judge needs a boot to the head or 20.

Worst case, the dude should get a fine.

....and that's only because he was dumb and got busted previously.

anyone can go to any bar in the US after midnight and find someone willing to sell any drug. this war is lost so give up peacefully before real gangsters come back and make it so you have to give up. like they did with the war on booze and like they are doing now in Mexico. if your at war with drugs you need to fight it within yourself. you can't win this war in the land of the free.

This shit is getting out of hand ,,,,,,,way out of hand , i bet some old person had something to do with it !

If there are a finite number of automobiles, them the only rational for such a stupid sentence is to free up one driver's seat for a drunk to kill someone. Alcohol is good for the economy in terms of work for police, paramedics, ambulance drivers, hospitals and funeral homes.

In America we sell injustice to the rich and force it on the poor.

He should have been buying the pot supplied by the mexican cartels instead.

justice/the law is a JOKE in this good old usa...

they let murderers go after 6 years...but growing a plant, 20...ya...ok?!

keep watching tv america, everything is ok!

Basically all this is over a plant for god's sake. There is another plant that is also kept from us, its called the Poppy.

Cruel and unusual punishment. There should be a provision against idiotic and useless punishment too.

Someday, hopefully, farming will be legal again.

Murders get less time than 20 years. Shame on the law and those who enforced it, the prosecutor that indicted him, the court who tired him and the judge who sentenced him. Shame, Shame, Shame!

20 years for growing plants that can't possibly kill anyone? 20 years for a plant that acts as a much-needed painkiller for those in serious pain?

Our tax dollars are wasted, searching out and ruining grower's lives. Our tax dollars pay for their jail sentences and keep them from their families. They are also exposed to real criminals in jail.

Meanwhile, violent drug cartels reap the benefits of trafficking this harmless drug--making profit in the hundreds of millions--while we spend billions to unsuccessfully stop them.

All questions aside some one with a previous conviction shouldnt be pushing his luck.