Martha Stewart sentenced to 5 months

[chicken]

Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in prison.

Make of that what you will. Original predictions were for 6-10 months, so she got off lightly. Also, due to the usual appeals process, her incarceration has been stayed.

Information on the appeals arguments.

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Obviously these things have to be taken on a case-by-case basis, but there are certainly some people in jail who shouldn't be there. For example, the famous case of the "three strikes" marijuana smokers who are in jail for a third simple possession violation (not selling, just possession).

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

Oh that is totally ludicrous.

We need more money on drug treatment, not drug jails. I don't really see pot as a big threat, although I know several people who have allowed it to ruin their lives. But they shouldn't be in jail.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Not to get off on an enormous tangent, but really the vast majority of pot smokers do not need drug treatment, because for the vast majority, it is not addictive. (I found this to be personally true, smoking once a week or so for a few months and then stopping because it wasn't really a big deal either way.)

Of course there are also people who allow it to ruin their lives, just as they would probably also do with alcohol, for example (which is legal, and whose prohibition in the 1920s did not work). But you are corect, these people should not be in jail (unless, like a drunk driver, they kill someone while driving -- which the anti-pot lobbiests have taken a very few isolated cases of this and have made it seem in their TV ads as if all pot smokers automatically smoke, drive, & kill).

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

Well, the person I'm thinking of has emotional issues and has taken many other drugs to try and deal with them. Pot seems to be the favorite, however. It's frustrating.

Your last line makes me think of the song "Drinking and Driving" by Black Flag, which I have always loved.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Don't know the song, but it does sound familiar.

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

Make sure to tell yourself that this is cool.
And make sure to tell yourself that you have no choice.
And make sure to tell your friends that they drive you to it.
And that you can quit anytime that you want, anytime.
You can quit anytime that you want.
You can quit anytime.
You can quit anytime, anytime.