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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

prison employees would be laid off if only criminals are in prison.

song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Remember these headlines any time someone makes excuses for the lack of action by the Federal Government, even when we give Democrats Congress and the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm going to wager the federal government couldn't do anything for state charges

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I'm sure Joe Manchin is really pro-cannabis.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Straight to jail!

Drive too fast? Straight to jail

Drive too slow? Also jail.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Hotchkiss — who goes by his middle name, Bud —

Poor dude never even had a chance. 😔

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

2.2 -100lbs is a massive range especially when the weight every part of the plant. That's a difference of growing enough for a month to smoke and supplying the neighborhood. Two massively different goals.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Not a federal crime or prison. Either the governor would have to pardon him, or he would have to get his appeal all the way to SCOTUS and get his conviction overturned. Neither of which seem very likely, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

He literally does not have the legal power to do that.

Biden has pardoned a lot of federal marijuana charges, but a core part of the Constitution is that the federal government's authority to interfere in state justice systems is very limited.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It's Alabama.... so sadly predictable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Kill his kidnappers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn't Biden pardon marijuana convictions? Or am I just high?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Federal, not state convictions.

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