As I was grinding away on my elliptical trainer this morning and watching the history channel I had to chuckle. The documentary on the air was about drugs and more specifically marijuana. There was a factoid that was amazing. It stated that since marijuana became illegal, mostly in the 1940's, that over 20 million Americans had been arrested for possessing it and smoking it. That is a lot of business for the criminal justice system and assures lots of funding for them. Many of those people arrested did years in prison.
Now, we hear that Republican Representative Bob Ney has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for corruption in the Abramoff scandal. That scandal was worth millions upon millions of dollars to these corrupt politicos, a lot more than damage morally and ethically than some one who did five years for smoking pot! You really have to wonder about this system sometimes.
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