Showing posts with label insane drug laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insane drug laws. Show all posts

Friday, June 8, 2007

Some red meat for your inner Libertarian

while we wait for the Friday News Dump. I am furious at this outrage, this miscarriage of justice, this…this…this…Dreyfus Case in the war on drugs! It was three and a half years ago, but it's still just as outrageous as it was then.

A 27-year-old quadriplegic man in Washington D.C. was, in essence, sentenced to death for possessing a negligible amount of marijuana.

The guy was a quadriplegic since age four. The judge gave him jail time because he said he would continue to smoke marijuana because it gave him relief.

He required a ventilator and 20 hours of nursing care per day. In jail, he got neither, and now he is dead.

This is outrageous. Fuck it. Give NORML a donation today. Reforming insane drug laws that attempt to ban part of the god-damned ecosystem isn’t just for the stoners. It’s for civil libertarians across the spectrum.