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Got Cannabis
Category: Nugs | Posted on Tue, May, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Super HIGH Me
Category: Fun | Posted on Mon, May, 21st 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Bill to decriminalize marijuana possession is advanced by N.J. Assembly committee
Category: News | Posted on Mon, May, 21st 2012 by THCFinder
TRENTON — Getting busted with fewer than 15 grams of marijuana would carry no criminal penalty in New Jersey under a bill that won unanimous support from the Assembly Judiciary Committee today.
 
With few objections from the crowd in a packed hearing room at the Statehouse, the committee approved a bill that would replace criminal penalties with fines for those caught with fewer than 15 grams of marijuana, or about 30 joints.
 
"Some acts harm society and they warrant the intervention of police, prosecutors and perhaps even incarceration," said the bill's prime Republican sponsor, Michael Patrick Carroll (R-Morris), who is also a committee member. "Other acts warrant at best, a spanking, and these seems to be one of these situations."
 
Supporters included a retired corrections officer, defense attorneys, a clergyman, a college instructor, and a representative from a drug addiction prevention group. They argued that people arrested for possessing marijuana — there were about 22,000 in the state last year — face far worse consequences than the crime deserves, such as difficulty obtaining a job, or qualifying for housing. Far more African Americans face jail time that Caucasians, even though drug use rates are about equal, perpetuating a vast racial injustice.
 
"These long-term consequences are unjust and expensive," said Candice Singer a research analyst from the New Jersey chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. "The police manpower utilized for these arrests is costly. It is beyond dispute that a criminal record interferes with one's ability to maintain employment. This not only hurts the individual and the individual's family, but it harms the economy and the state, preventing residents from becoming employed and paying income taxes."
 
First offenses are punishable by a $150 fine, $200 for a second offense and $500 for a third offense. The fine may be waived if the person charged can demonstrate "extreme hardship," according to the bill, (A1465). The fines would be collected by municipal court.
 
The law now allows a judge to impose a six-month jail term and $1,000 when a person is convicted of pot possession. 
 
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Pipes and Bongs or Blunts and Joints?
Category: Tokers | Posted on Mon, May, 21st 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson on Marijuana Policy
Category: Politics | Posted on Mon, May, 21st 2012 by THCFinder

While the mainstream media will be focused on President Obama and Mitt Romney during this Presidential race, it is up to independent media to keep marijuana law reform in the public eye.

 

The best way to do that will be to tell people about former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, who is the Libertarian Party nominee for President this year.

 

In the video below he explains his position on marijuana law reform and how it will lead to full drug policy reform, incredible savings of law enforcement resources and jail space.

 

Marijuana law reform will also lead to an increase of freedom. That’s something that can be measured in arrest statistics to a certain degree, but what can’t be measured is the fear people live under for being labeled criminals when they are clearly doing nothing wrong.

 

People should be scared of committing real crimes, those that infringe on the rights of another. Police should be worried real criminals, not whether someone has a baggie of marijuana on them.

 

While Gary Johnson has little chance of winning the Presidency, he can do a lot to raise awareness about marijuana law reform. For that reason alone his candidacy is worthwhile.

 

 

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The Party Joint
Category: Fun | Posted on Mon, May, 21st 2012 by THCFinder

 

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