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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

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Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The parole board thinks he should stay there.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240118131524/https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2024/01/parole-denied-for-68-year-old-in-alabama-a-life-sentence-for-growing-marijuana.html

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    That law provides several different levels of trafficking, and Hotchkiss was convicted under the lowest level – having between 2.2 lbs and 100lbs. That weight includes all parts of the plant, root and stem and all.

    40 years, jesus fucking CHRIST.

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      I’m 6400km tall if you include the earth under my feet

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        And extremely heavy…

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          Damn they’ll never let me on the rollercoaster now…

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        I’m billions of light years tall if you include the space above my head.

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          Damn you should play in the NBA

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            I don’t know if he has the mass to play, he sounds like a lightweight.

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      Who, actually, believes society is better off for caging this man??

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        no one. but a great many people like that it happened

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          deleted by creator

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            yeah and general schadenfreude, racism, hippy-bashing and general reefer madness buffonery.

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        Many–there are people whose lives REALLY suck and they can’t imagine them being better so they want to make others’ lives worse. This is how a significant portion of the population votes.

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      An old pot grower’s adage goes something like: if the sentencing minimum is for between 1-99 plants, you might as well grow 99.

      People like Bud serve as the real life example for this kind of saying sadly.

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      This is stupid, why is the lowest charge range so big. 2.2 lb to 100 lb that is a huge range and you’re telling me there is ranges higher than that? He already has life in prison the hell do they do with the higher ranges

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      And dirt they made sure to water.

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