Anyone up for a debate ?

It used to be 2 to life...

 

No suprise considering it's such a dangerous and deadly drug. Ha! Texas amuses me, that's why I stay here.

 

witchcraft used to be death by hanging... things do change.

 

What for less than 2-6 ounces ?
It might be out of date but - in my last link - it says Possession: 180 days - 2 years for less than 4 oz to 1 lb.
I think you might be talking about all of the sentencing, right?

 

No for any amount back in the 60's .. early 70's

I had a friend who did 2 years hard time for 2 joints.. bad enough

In 1968, a time when possessing even a minuscule amount of almost any illegal drug in Texas could bring a life prison term,

A new set of Texas drug laws, effective in 1973, included graduated penalties for possession based on weight and type of drug


It is Texas , Ya'll

 

I thought they preferred Trial By Drowning.... you know witches float and all

 

Ok, thanks.

 

Thanks. I just wanted to add more than what was discussed here.

Ya, I tend to not respond directly to people but just make subtle hints to what has been said. I guess I do that because I want to avoid sounding condescending and making it personal, but at the same time wanting to respond to arguments being made, or arguments that are usually made by people.

 

Fair enough.

Again, fair enough.

 

i want grass to become legal world wide so these fundamentalists who don't know shit about it but go home and drink tell they fall aslepe shut the fuck up.

all of my friends toke and when it comes to driving somewhere; someone speaks up and takes the wheel. if we are all high as shit we just ask "who wants to?"

with my friends and drinking its big fucking arguement and since booze is in you, you just gotta fucking argue. also we dont trust anyone.

i dont have the words right now but if i could

i'd make drinking illegal because it would have saved a good friend of mine's sister from a damn drunk.

it just drives me crazy when people diss the erb and really dont know shit. ignorant assholes.

let me put something here and smoke it.

 

I was kind of kidding but here you go:
Tyrone Brown

Tyrone Brown served 17 years of a life sentence for testing positive for marijuana while on probation for a $2 stickup committed when he was 17.

No one involved was ever able to explain the severe penalty. Brown's victim in the holdup said he rarely thought about the incident, but pointed out that he was unharmed, that Brown returned the wallet to him after removing the $2, and that police apprehended Brown and recovered the money that same evening. Neither Brown's attorney in the trial nor the court-appointed lawyer who handled his appeal said they could even remember the case.

Keith Dean, the judge who sentenced Brown to life for the failed drug test, also said he didn't recall the case when first asked about it. Legal experts say the legal system in Texas, where the incident took place, affords judges wide latitude in sentencing and requires little accountability.

Dean, who lost his bid for reelection in the 2006 midterms after nearly 20 years on the bench, came under national scrutiny after ABC's news magazine "20/20" aired a story contrasting Brown's sentence with that of another probation violator. Alex Wood, the son of a prominent Waco pastor, repeatedly failed the drug tests required by his probation for a murder conviction, testing positive for cocaine, among other substances. Not only did Dean decline to impose any prison sentence, he eventually allowed Wood "postcard probation," which requires only that Wood send a postcard each year giving his current address.

As a result of the story and the public outcry that followed, Brown received a "conditional pardon" — meaning he would still be subject to supervision — from Gov. Rick Perry and was released from prison March 15, 2007.

 

just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are ignorant

it is entirely possible that the information you use to support your argument is as false as you believe the information that supports their argument to be.