• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Because growing weed is a criminal offense. It probably shouldn’t be, but that’s how the law works.

      What happened here was not a criminal case. So given the limited available punishment this is pretty severe. I mean does the idiot even have 300 million dollars?

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        9 months ago

        That’s not true, people regularly get a decade in jail for growing cannabis in prohibition states

        You can literally beat your wife nearly to death and get less time

        The only reason it is kept illegal is to keep our prisons filled