Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year

[Snk]

American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
According to the new BJS report, "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses. Combining these percentages with separate U.S. Department of Justice statistics on the total number of state and federal drug prisoners suggests that there are now about 33,655 state inmates and 10,785 federal inmates behind bars for marijuana offenses. The report failed to include estimates on the percentage of inmates incarcerated in county and/or local jails for pot-related offenses.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/47815

Stupid waste of money, just as bad as the current war.

[HHBizzle]

pot is bad for you
you shouldnt smoke it
it makes ur brain go badddd
then you cant do anything
and you shrivel up
and die
its a horrid drug
the gateway drug
to all bad behavior

[Sammie]

and it makes you blind and worthless

everyone who smokes pot should be in jail

let's jail everyone

we should do it for the children. they need protection

[HHBizzle]

yes
for the children
put the dope smoking hippies away forever
take away their green
its the cancer of society

[ioScream]

I hate hippies.. they smell too.

[L1veUndead]

I brought a tear to a guys eye the other day at work with an article I found in the paper.

2 guys on route two Amsterdam had an accident and rolled there van. This was just a stupid mistake accident too that will probably cost them there lives with the owner of the cargo.

The cargo was 3 tons of hash on route to Amsterdam with a value of 20 million dollars. The two guys escaped the accident and the officials confiscated it and set it all up in smoke.

[McTucket]

when people smoke pot it makes me furious because i dont like the smell.

and now i have 3 more years until i can smoke again...