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Chris Rice
Rock Island, IL
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Chris commented on the article |
Count me in as one of the arrests . . . Convicted of Class 2 Felony Manufacture of Cannabis . . . Growing some weed. Now I have a felony to keep me from being to find work. I get to be discriminated against for the rest of my life. Yeah!
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Chris commented on the article |I used to make OK money and bought a house in the ghetto because I could afford it and I didn't know that if I had mad the decision to buy above my means that the government would bail me out, so I get know bailout from the obnoxious and dangerous crack market in front of my house. I did buy the abandoned house next door so that crack heads wouldn't move in next to me.
Now that I don't have a job I don't qualify for food stamps because I own my house and the unlivable house next door (I paid $3000 for it 4 years ago). Somehow I'm to rich to qualify . . . I made only $3000 this year and and I can't get food stamps. The abandoned house will be taken for back taxes in a few months and then I will qualify for food stamps. The abandoned house will sell at the tax auction and crack heads will move in, the bullets will fly and the government has never done a single thing to ever help me in the few times that I have been in need. What was I paying $7000 in taxes a year for anyway. Social programs are for other people, they have never worked for me . . . I just get robbed by the government so that I don't have anything left to take care of myself with when I do hit bad times . . .
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Chris commented on the article |David, do you realize that every act of despotism ever perpetrated by a government was legal. The Nazis passed laws that legalized every evil act that they committed. If prisons were for victimizers only then I wouldn't give a damn what happed to the people that they incarcerate but that is not the case. I've been incarcerated repeatedly for nothing more than possession of some plant matter that the despots want people to believe would make me explode and wound and kill people with my fragmented body. Anything can be made illegal and probably has somewhere at some time: bibles, not wearing a veil, wearing a veil, killing, not killing in a foreign land when drafted for whatever cause a countries leaders decide . . . The laws of man are arbitrary and forever changing . . .
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Chris commented on the article |The Supreme Court ruled a long time ago that police have the right to pat down for weapons anyone who the come in contact with or engage in conversation with who is not even a suspect in a crime. A small bag of pot in your pocket does not feel like a weapon, a pipe or a lighter do feel like a weapon though. Don't carry pipes and always put your weed in your left pocket (they almost always search the right pocket first and that is where they usually find it) and don't have anything else in that pocket. Cell phones, keys, etc. all might feel like a weapon. If the officer squeezes your bag of marijuana and looks you straight in the eye and asks "what is this" you should reply and then hear him go hmmmm.
This works if you are dealing with an honest cop. It doesn't protect you from a dishonest cop though. I think it is safe to say though that most cops are honest most of the time. Even a dirty cop has to go by the law most of the time or he wouldn't last on the force for very long. This can increase your odds of having your life wrecked (job discrimination and such) by the marijuana laws.
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Chris commented on the article |I do not believe that cannabis use is a disease, it is a personal right. In our society, worship of the law has become the new religion. The laws of man are arbitrary and capricious. I do not exist to serve the law, the law is here to serve me. Our country is founded on the principal that when the government becomes destructive of the peoples rights that it exists to defend then it is the right and DUTY of every citizen to abolish or alter that government. Our Declaration Of Independence even advocates violence to achieve that end. I would think that a 20 year sentence being locked with murderers, thieves, rapists, and other victimizers for possession of any amount of a plant qualifies.
Remember, pot didn't ruin Bill Clinton, George Bush, or Barack Obama's lives because they weren't arrested, convicted, jailed, or screened by potential employers for the entire rest of their lives because of a cannabis offense. Yet every day thousands of Americans get branded for life for something they may not have anything to do with out of boredom with it after a few months.
I do not worship the laws of man and would not return a slave no matter what the law says.
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Chris commented on the article |I was filling out an application the other day an on the section where it asks about misdemeanor or felony convictions it says: "In California, an employer may not inquire about a marijuana conviction that is more than two years old."
I live in Illinois so this doesn't apply to me though. You will notice that it doesn't say felony or misdemeanor so no matter how big of a cannabis conviction one may have an employer may not ask about it. What a common sense approach, it allows one to move on to a life without cannabis if one chooses.
We need to pass a law like this in every state.
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Chris commented on the article |
Every time I've ever been in jail I was not guitly, I was waiting for a trial and was there for not having money for bail. I was accused of possession of cannabis, no pile of victums. If you want to charge people that have already been convicted of crimes against another fine, but our system is so twisted that the people who actually victimize people are set free to make room for the easier to convict people who only want to actually experience this freedom thing we hear so much about.
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Chris commented on the article |
I put in a resume yesterday, had an interview at 8:45 AM today, got a call at 11:00 that I start next Tuesday, 3 hours later I get a call rescinding the hiring. Why? I answered every question honestly and they were all about the job. Because I have a misdemeanor cannabis charge on my record 8 years ago. I haven't smoked it in about as long. I was applying to be a maintenance tech (unplugging toilets, fixing water heaters, patching holes in walls). I can't even unplug a toilet because I had a small amount of pot 8 years ago? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO TO EARN A LIVING!!!!! All I want is to not be a pothead but no, society will not let me. For the rest of my life I get to be discriminated against in employment and such because I got caught!!!! 50% of all adult americans have possessed cannabis and some of them even got to be President of the United States. Of course, the didn't get caught, got to move on from being a pothead, didn't get discriminated against in employment because of a past cannabis charge. Let me move on!!!! Please!!!! I have a child I need to support! This has been the story of my life for the last 1 1/2 since the economy took a dive. Judge me on my work ethic, skill, productivity, or even if I smoke pot now, not that a long, long, time ago I had some pot!!!!!!
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Chris commented on the article |
bank robbers, car jackers, or child sex offenders . . . I have heard this propaganda so many times. You can't possibly believe that me smoking a joint in my own home violating no one is the same as forcible violence? The only two types I've heard say this are cops and the burglar I had the unfortunate conversation with who said "who are you to judge me, you break the law, you smoke pot!" I can actually believe that the burglar was so dumb as to believe that they are on par but I can't believe that you actually believe it.
So why don't we protect our young adults from the evil weed by locking them up with bank robbers, car jackers, murderers, and oh its not all getting beat up and raped, there is the gang recruiter who offers protection. If our young adults can survive all of this they will still have to put a cannabis offense on every job application for the rest of their lives, thus really protecting them and improving their lives. Where are they least likely to be discriminated against in employment? The drug trade of course, and with their gang contacts they have an edge in the drug trade. Yes, a bright future indeed.
There is also the class of young adults who smoke some cannabis and don't get caught. They get to go on with their lives without all the helpful protection. They can achieve anything that their talents and abilities can muster. The might even one day become President of the United States of America! Example: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama all smoked cannabis, none was charged with a crime, none had to put it on applications. You can say that 2 of them were elected with the full knowledge of the public but would they have gotten into a good college, would they have been discriminated against in one or more of the jobs they held on the way to the top? I think in all honesty you have to answer yes. Their entire future would have been changed and it wouldn't have been cannabis that did it, it would have been the criminal conviction for it.
Protect our young adults, get rid of this blatant destroyer of lives: The laws against Marijuana!
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Chris commented on the article |I was arrested at age 19 for marijuana possession and now 23 year later it still effects my ability to get a job in a very tight construction market. I have been totally effected by this ever since, and have to put this on every application I fill out. I went into construction because it was the only job I could get with a record when I had so much more potential, and now I can't even get a job digging holes because they can hire some young adult who has never been caught possessing a harmless herb.
Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama all smoked marijuana and didn't get caught. They don't have to have their entire life effected by a criminal record. The sky is the limit with nothing to hold them back.
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