\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Talk about something being just plain WRONG!!! 4th Marijuana Conviction Lands Life Sentence - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans 4th Marijuana Conviction Lands Life Sentence COVINGTON, La. -- After getting probation three times for marijuana convictions in New Orleans, a man moved out of the city - and landed a life prison sentence the fourth time around.Cornell Hood II was sentenced Thursday in Covington as a repeat offender following his conviction on a charge of attempting to possess and distribute marijuana.According to The Times-Picayune, Hood moved from New Orleans after he pleaded guilty in 2009 to two marijuana-related charges and received five years of probation. In 2005, he received his first strike - and five years of probation - after pleading guilty in New Orleans to possessing and intending to distribute marijuana.Authorities said Hood's probation officer found about two pounds of marijuana during a routine visit to Hood's Slidell-area home on Sept. 27. Read more: 4th Marijuana Conviction Lands Life Sentence - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans RAISE HELL ABOUT THIS! This is NOT the 1950s! http://www.contactingthecongress.org/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc2011&state=LA http://www.house.gov/representatives/#state_la Granny
While I sympathize for the man for being imprisoned for something that should not even be illegal in the first place, you think the guy would have learned his lesson after not one, not two, but three probations. Not the brightest guy around.
I agree life imprisonment is a terrible conviction, and will only cause more harm to this man. But he has been arrested 4 times and was found with 2 pounds, come on man pull your shit together. I'm sure he will get early parole and his sentence cut, though I do not feel sympathy for him as it was his own stupidity that brought it upon him (It was a routine check-up)
goddamn. life for the 4th time. atleast give him the 1-5 years you get when you get caught with a grow op.
Life in prison is just too heavy for this, it's so illogical I'm having trouble accepting it as reality.
im from new Orleans and think this is bull shit. this article was on front page of the paper yesterday.. dumb ass judge i hope i see him grocery shopping or some shit so i can tell the judge hes a total fag for giving him life in jail. i dont care how many times the kid is caught with weed , murderers and rapist get out of jail in less time. Like the weed was actually harming someone. i wanna put that judges teeth on a curb the kick the back of his head.when it comes to the pot scene im like a fukin bin laden wit mah beliefs
Obviously this guy is a douche for trying to sell cannabis after being arrested THREE TIMES, but holy fuck a life sentence? He'll probably get out on probation again, but not after he's brain warped into a fuckin terrorist. This is total bullshit. But protesting will do no help. People will just go "why are you protesting for a repeat drug dealer?" Fucking sheeple.
Life as absolutely too long but I do think he should be doing some time. Whether the laws are appropriate or not is irrelevant. Pushes towards legalization or at least a policy like they have in Cali are stunted when dipshits like this guy stay in the news. Its really unfortunate that we are allowing "hustlers" to set the public image of weed. I've never seen someone in the news for being a responsible user of any drug, alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana. Sure it doesn't make good news but it would at least make for interesting statistics. Only "radical" and very biased publications write about the positive effects of marijuana which is then read by supporters which does nothing to inform the general public. I realize that I got a long way from the individual case but I am trying to show how interconnected it all is.
It cost approximately 40,000 grand every year to keep just one person in prison. It cost just a couple dollars a day to stop a person from starving.
i dont understand how some states can be so naive towards marijuana life is way to harsh but this guy is an idiot he let herb take over his like he should have learned after the first time
Pretty much what Adam M said. It sucks that this guy got life for something like weed, but he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed about it, or so it seems. EDIT: So you're saying it costs 40 thousand thousand dollars every year?
Depending on the prison, it costs anywhere from $6k to $40k to support an inmate. I once figured out how much it cost my parents to take care of me. It was WAAYYYY over 6k a year. Now imagine having to pay people to make food for an inmate...even more costs. It's ridiculous.
He clearly made a type and you know this. (I hope) Also after you have been in jail once or twice convicted for drug trafficking it isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to find ANY job let alone one that pays enough to sustain a living. This guy wasn't the smartest tool in the shed I guess because he got caught yet every dealer who is up and running and dispensary owner etc are all fine? MJ is a high demand product that gives jobs to countless thousands regardless of them being underground jobs. I know someone with a friend who opened a dispensary a year ago and is looking to make around 400k in his first year. This shit being illegal is insane when there is literally billions of dollars of revenue every year in the industry and we are spending billions to fight and force drug laws and imprison otherwise peaceful law abiding citizens in jail. This type of "not the smartest tool in the shed what a loser" attitude is the stereotype society and our government has slapped onto pot for the commonly brainwashed person to associate weed with, I would hope that other stoners would not fall for it.
Yeah know it was a typo and I was just messin'with him But no, after the first time getting caught and slapped with trafficking or whatever, you should straighten up and try to make a legit living, even if it's for a shit nametag job(s) (McDonalds, grocery stores, etc). He chose to keep going the way most dealers do after they get caught, and then are butthurt about the law being against them when they should of been out making a living with something that's actually legal in the first place like the majority of us (stoners or not). Pot's definately high demand, but at the same time it's still illegal. We cannot blame the laws for being enforced when there's people blatantly breaking them is all I'm saying. That makes us look bad. It's like saying "Well, I robbed a bank once so who's gonna hire me now? I guess I'll just keep robbing banks for the rest of my life." Then being butthurt when you get sent to prison for the rest of your life.
But we aren't talking about robbing a bank. I don't think he is "acting butthurt". If it wasn't for growers and dealers risking their freedoms none of us would get to enjoy MJ at all. No matter how it is spun you will never make me believe this is justified or shouldn't piss us all off. Someone is sitting in a jail cell right now for the rest of their life over a nonviolent crime and that is bullshit.
