We still lock people up for that?
My cousin Nick lives way up north, in the middle of a rustic country, in what turns out to be a very intolerant place.
He is currently in the county jail serving a few months because he was carrying quite a bit of cannabis.
This blows me away, that in our morning & age you can still be put behind bars for something like that! Have the people I was with and I not changed as a humanity? I’m sorry, I’m still undoubtedly angry about this, because the court of public opinion has turned on this kind of thing, & the law of the land is adjusting because of that! Just this week I was at our weed shop, placing our order on the tablets they leave lying around, & I thought about Nick. Here I was being treated like a prince in a legal cannabis dispensary, & there he was in jail for doing the exact same thing. I have always believed that there is no moral or health issue with cannabis, it is a plant that can be used medicinally or recreationally. If the cannabis industry was on it for a fraction of the death & illness caused by Big Tobacco, I might be against legalization. Compared to tobacco, weed is virtually harmless, & yet innocent people like Nick are jailed for it, it makes me furious! I don’t even believe it’s enough to decriminalize marijuana, I believe anyone who has ever been caught for it needs to be set free now, & their records wiped of the charges. In my opinion, no person should go to jail for cannabis ever again.