Re: Six months for 10 plants

Noticed at Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:58:15 +0000: Captain Rock informed us:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:18 +0100, Dr John Watson
> <drjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>Noticed at Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:34:06 +0000: Captain Rock informed us:
>>
>>> Throw every last one of you stoners in jail.
>>
>>That's 80% of the USA in jail, then (and the majority of the UK
>>parliament, if we did it here).

I forget to mention several members of the "royal" family.

> Urban myth... You druggies are fond of spreading that misinformation.

As I understand it, the majority of adult residents in the USA have used
illegal drugs, including several presidents. They are all criminals that
you would want locked up.

> Here are the real facts:
> 
> # n 2000, an estimated 57% of Federal inmates and 21% of State inmates
> were serving a sentence for a drug offense; about 10% of Federal
> inmates and 49% of State inmates were in prison for a violent offense.

Does that make you feel better? Does it make the USA safer?

> # Violent offenders accounted for 53% of the growth in State prisons
> between 1990 to 2000, drug offenders accounted for 59% of the growth
> in Federal prisons.

Those drug offenders wouldn't be in jail, at a cost of $30,000(?) pa each,
if those drugs were treated the same as alcohol and tobacco. Do you like
paying your tax dollars to incarcerate drug offenders, many of whom are
likely to be otherwise law abiding?

>     *  Half of jail inmates in 2002 were held for a violent or drug
> offense, almost unchanged from 1996.
>     * Drug offenders, up 37%, represented the largest source of jail
> population growth between 1996 and 2002.
>     * More than two-thirds of the growth in inmates held in local
> jails for drug law violations was due to an increase in persons
> charged with drug trafficking.

The increase in trafficking is due to the increase in demand. As the home
of capitalism the USA should realise that drug use is a consumer led
economy.

>     * Thirty-seven percent of jail inmates were convicted on a new
> charge; 18% were convicted on prior charges following revocation of
> probation or parole; 16% were both convicted of a prior charge and
> awaiting trial on a new charge; and 28% were unconvicted.
> #  Half (50%) of convicted jail inmates were under the influence of
> drugs or alcohol at the time of the offense, down from 59% in 1996.

Are you about to re-criminalize alcohol? look at the mess that made in the
1920s, and look at the mess the prohibition of other drugs makes now.

> # Three out of every four convicted jail inmates were alcohol or
> drugs-involved at the time of their current offense.
> # Alcohol use at the time of the offense dropped from 41% (1996) to
> 35% (2002), while drug use dropped from 35% to 29%.
> # Average sentence length of inmates serving their time in a local
> jail increased from 22 months in 1996 to 24 months in 2002.
> 
>>
>>You have the highest incarceration rate in the world - another thing for
>>you Americans to be proud of - so, please go for it.

> Look at you wankers. You just let your crooks go back into society so
> the can victimize the innocent.

Wankers, I like that use of BritSlang! We try, albeit ineffectively, to
rehabilitate offenders, by giving them education and a vocation.

As the majority of the population are drug offenders, released prisoners
won't be victimizing the innocent.

> 
> 
>>> Captain Rock
>>> Narcotics Division
>>-- 
>>Dr John Watson
>>Baker Street
>>
-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street