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No One Serves Jail Time for Smoking Pot [1] 08/03/2015 |
Here is why there is confusion: the only time someone is sentenced to jail for smoking pot is if there is a more serious crime they are clearly guilty of, and the prosecutor or judge wants to give them a lighter sentence. Theft or burglary were the most common crimes I came across. Instead of being required to sentence a defendant to a year imprisonment for stealing, a defendant could plead guilty to marijuana possession instead and get a much lesser sentence. So on paper, it looks like they are serving time for drug possession, but in reality, they were let off the hook for a serious crime. crime [2], jail [3] |
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[1] http://www.rethinkpot.org/no-one-serves-jail-time-smoking-pot
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/crime
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/jail