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11 responses to “Seven-year-old’s honesty about basement marijuana means father won’t get to see him grow up”

  1. fester420

    Hear Hear!!

  2. Todd

    I don’t smoke it and I’m an advocate of legalizing marijuana however I need to ask this question. Could the authors same logic be applied to bank robbery by a guy with a wife and a kid/kids who was struggling with debt and faced them living on the street or not being able to feed them? Could you justify his actions and would you blame the cops for arresting him? Cops don’t make the laws, they’re paid to arrest those who break them, it’s that simple.

    Sorry but the law is the law, we need to change the law, not break it.

  3. J

    people just remember this when medical marajiuna is on the ballot..EVERY ONE should be rallying like other states and gettign petions signed for nov elections
    if you THE PEOPLE get a voter passed bill
    it takes 3/4 majority to change it
    so go out and VOTE
    and TELL others to also
    so this drug war can stop
    sooo many states are going foward with MMJ law and even full on legalization(cali) nov election
    so make ohio one too
    go out and fight
    demand your rights as a tax payer..

  4. Supplement

    I think i know this person. =(

  5. JohnDoeRadio

    Very well put Russ.

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  7. Alex

    I went to the University of Dayton right on the corner of Brown St. and Stewart St. The area of the bust is a lower/working class neigborhood chances are Mommy and Daddy worked 50 hours a week and still had trouble paying the bills. Crack and Meth are fucking tearing Dayton apart, and all the old factory jobs have left. The city is dying. Now they bust this poor guy. What a fucked up country in deed.

  8. sameoldwine

    What a country!
    (Yakov Smirnov)

  9. GATOKER

    It’s because of the brainwashing they do in schools. Telling kids they are gonna die from marijuana. I told the social worker when I was 7 and my parents split that I wanted to live with my mom b/c I was afraid my dad would die from smoking and I’d be left alone. The social worker made no effort to correct me. The next 7 years for me were hell b/c my mother and I just aren’t two individuals that fair well tofether.

  10. E

    This crap has got to stop. Thanks to this system, he’s going to have a worse run at life. . . yeah, what about the kids. It is sad, because the kid is serving a sentence too. :furious:

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