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Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison
#18883648 - 09/24/13 06:43 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison dissidentvoice.org
While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes, a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New Orleans criminal court for possessing 15 grams, .529 of an ounce, of marijuana.
Corey Ladd, 27, had prior drug convictions and was sentenced September 4, 2013 as a “multiple offender to 20 years hard labor at the Department of Corrections.”
Marijuana use still remains a ticket to jail in most of the country and prohibition is enforced in a highly racially discriminatory manner. A recent report of the ACLU, “The War on Marijuana in Black and White,” documents millions of arrests for marijuana and shows the “staggeringly disproportionate impact on African Americans.”
Nationwide, the latest numbers from the FBI report that over 762,000 arrests per year are for marijuana, almost exactly half of all drug arrests.
Even though blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates, black people are 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana than white people.
For example, Louisiana arrests about 13,000 people per year for marijuana, 60% of them African Americans. Over 84 percent were for possession only. While Louisiana’s population is 32 percent black, 60 percent of arrests for marijuana are African American making it the 9th most discriminatory state nationwide. In Tangipahoa Parish, blacks are 11.8 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites and in St. Landry Parish the rate of black arrests for marijuana is 10.7 times as likely as whites, landing both parishes in the worst 15 in the country.
In Louisiana, a person can get up to six months in jail for first marijuana conviction, up to five years in prison for the second conviction and up to twenty years in prison for the third. In fact, the Louisiana Supreme Court recently overturned a sentence of five years as too lenient for a fourth possession of marijuana and ordered the person sentenced to at least 13 years.
Jack Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) argues that “the “war on drugs” has been, is, and forever will be, a total and abject failure. This is not a war on drugs, this is a war on people, our own people, our children, our parents, ourselves.” LEAP, which is made up of thousands of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities, has been advocating for the de-criminalization of drugs and replacing it with regulation and control since 2002.
Arrests and jail sentences continue even though public opinion has moved against it. National polling by the Pew Research Center show a majority of people support legalizing the use of marijuana. Even in Louisiana, a recent poll by Public Policy Polling found more than half support legalization and regulation of marijuana.
Karen O’Keefe, who lived in New Orleans for years and now works as Director of State Policies at the Marijuana Policy Project, said “A sentence of 20 years in prison for possessing a substance that is safer that alcohol is out of step with Louisiana voters, national trends, and basic fairness and justice. Limited prison space and prosecutors’ time should be spent on violent and serious crime, not on prosecuting and incarcerating people who use a substance that nearly half of all adults have used.”
Defense lawyers are appealing the twenty year sentence for Mr. Ladd, but the hundreds of thousands of marijuana arrests continue each year. This insanity must be stopped.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Ythan]
#18883688 - 09/24/13 06:59 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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20 years?
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: cops]
#18883743 - 09/24/13 07:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is disgusting
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: cops]
#18883778 - 09/24/13 07:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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cops said: 20 years?
More years than more people get for rape, assault, manslaughter. And when he gets out of jail in 20 years he may not find a job and then becomes a real criminal.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Ythan] 1
#18883850 - 09/24/13 08:15 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is what happens when the religious right runs things.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Ythan]
#18883882 - 09/24/13 08:31 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Fedor]
#18884159 - 09/24/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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They really believe what they are doing is the right thing. I avoid southern states, no idea why anyone lives there.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: cops]
#18884168 - 09/24/13 10:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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cops said: 20 years?
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Morel Guy]
#18884199 - 09/24/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Morel Guy said: They really believe what they are doing is the right thing. I avoid southern states, no idea why anyone lives there.
Beautiful Autumns... That's about the only thing we have going for us around here... And zealots
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#18884244 - 09/24/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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JacksonMetaller said:
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Morel Guy said: They really believe what they are doing is the right thing. I avoid southern states, no idea why anyone lives there.
Beautiful Autumns... That's about the only thing we have going for us around here... And zealots
Well if we are talking about Louisiana, the food beats anywhere in the US hands down. Y'all niggas just dont know how to cook 
But I was surprised to see this was in New Orleans, down there cops are corrupt and could give a shit less about weed. They are the lowest paid police in the nation and because of that fact you can pay most of them off fairly easy unless you are into some big shit.
The south has its charm guys
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: KillerSpores]
#18884450 - 09/24/13 11:11 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I bet this guy would have gotten less jail time for beating down a police officer or anyone for that matter.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Sagescruffy]
#18884742 - 09/24/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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^ right about that.
even less time if he was walking around with a loaded gun and no permit, a gun that can end a life, as oppose to Mary Jane's eight hour layover in the bodhi.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Sagescruffy] 2
#18884746 - 09/24/13 12:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sagescruffy said: I bet this guy would have gotten less jail time for beating down a police officer or anyone for that matter.
He could have done rape or murder and he would have gotten less of a sentence. He isn't just doing 20 years, he's doing 20 years of hard labor. He's going to work on some prison farm somewhere, so the owners not only get rich off of incarcerating him, but also basically get a free slave for a few decades out of this deal. And they get to sell whatever labor product he makes.
This shit has got to stop.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: dokunai]
#18884752 - 09/24/13 12:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That sucks..the battle continues, hopefully as the older generation dies the youth will begin to see the light
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: ChinChiller] 2
#18884835 - 09/24/13 01:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Errolscool said: That sucks..the battle continues, hopefully as the older generation dies the youth will begin to see the light 
I would love to see that, but I am stunned at how many brain washed dip shits are from my generation. I'd love to see hard labor prisons be put to an end as well.
As long as religon is seen as the truth and dmt as a crime, shit will never change.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Morel Guy]
#18885014 - 09/24/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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What a tragedy
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: KingKnowledge]
#18885734 - 09/24/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is ridiculously sad....Even if things go pretty well for this guy his life is ruined. I just don't fucking get it, how does shit like this really happen? How do you get an entire room full of people to sentence the poor guy and nobody says anything?

I wish him the absolute best
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Ythan]
#18885794 - 09/24/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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fucked up in so many ways. But hey at least most people support legalization! Dude if I was that guy I would've fucking left that shithole a long time ago. I feel bad for him non the less.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Ythan]
#18886024 - 09/24/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Disgusting. The entire state should sink into the oil-spattered Gulf.
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Re: Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Years in Prison [Re: Nature Boy] 1
#18886102 - 09/24/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is ridiculous. I saw the other article today where a cop was selling upwards of 15lbs a week and is looking at 5yrs..anyone else see the injustice in that!? Sickening
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