Father arrested after daughter turns him in for pot

To anyone who is claiming that the father was negligent and who is implying that the father got what he deserved or is responsible for being mistreated by those who enforce unjust laws:

What was the father arrested for? Neglect? Physical Abuse? What would have happened had pot been legal, and why? Did the father do anything worthy of being arrested? Is there any justification for what happened other than marijuana prohibition itself, which we all know is dead wrong? Do you think a system of perception-management that has children turning in their own families is a good thing?

This is akin to a kid using a chain saw to cut a slice of bread. The legal system is woefully ill equipped to address addiction, let alone what is likely a simple dispute between a teen age daughter and her dad. This is really a sad situation.

It probably wasn't the weed that was the problem,I am sure it was the drinking.Unfortunately it is the pot he will be in trouble for.

" Un-believ-able!" I would understand if it were "crack, speed, crank, oxycotin, alcohol," but pot! Bayer asprin is stronger than pot!....What kind of idiotic mind control is that youth under? maybe she was indignant about something and she couldn't do what she wanted and thought that it would be a way to temporarily get rid of her dad.... That is a dumb ass kid!

Maybe the kids would prefer a sober father. A news story I found said they were tired of his drinking and pot smoking. Maybe they were scared for their father's health. Maybe they were scared for themselves. We don't know what else was going on. I'm guessing most of the posters who quickly condemned the kids don't have kids or you thought nothing of getting wrecked in front of your kids.

The father broke the law. The father is responsible for what happened. He needs to be a better role model for his kids than consuming enough alcohol and pot that his kids were scared enough to call the police.

The guy was arrested. But I doubt he's in jail. He was probably released with little or no bail. He won't be seeing his kids again without supervision until social services investigates the situation. Maybe this will turn his life around. Maybe he'll be a better father.

He should have beat there asses--nuff said. And then sent them back home to their mom.

so they've even brain washed the kid into screwing up they're own lives. Apparently if he has custody, the mom is probably not a winner or not around. So now dad will have no job, not be able to get another in this economy, and not pay child support. Lets not forget that they could end up in foster care. So I think it is a great law to annihilate a family over a plant. But if he is really neglect his kids that is an issue for CPS to remove the children anyway. Well, we should also be clear.....this is from Utah. The place where rich people invite crazy homeless people to their home so they can case the place for a future kidnapping. Common sense left Utah about the time Brigham Young died.

Having/comsuming pot at your house away from the kids is not child endangerment, however if the kids were that compelled to turn him in id say there was something more to it then dad getting stoned and listening to classic rock.

I do realize that a Hitler comment is usually over the top, but having children turn in their parents is one of the things that the Nazi did in Germany. It was the patriotic thing to do.

Little brats. Hopefully, they'll learn their lesson when they're given to abusive foster parents. Unless, of course, this guy was abusive - in which case, he deserves what he got, and they probably did the right thing to get themselves out of the situation. But, I doubt it...

"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2

Aren't those kids going to be happy, now that they put their Dad in jail? This could start this guy's life on a downward spiral that he'll never recover from. Who knows how much time he will be looking at? What rotten kids! What if this guy was paying child support? They just fucked themselves over even more!

Sick

Children turning in their parents to the government!
WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?
What good little Fascist we are producing!

Children turning in parents. Is this really the direction we want to go?

They were tired of him smoking and drinking, but the smoking is what sent him to jail. Cannabis laws are a weapon for anyone who wants to punish a person. But dad? That's just mean! May explain the term 'broken family'! That family is truly broken. They may have alienated their dad forever.

Now he"ll lose his job and they all will have to go on some kind of assistance.
As a taxpayer this kind of story burns my ass. Legalize it, and tax it. Also legalize industrial hemp a cheap source of bio-fuel.