he will walk on probation for 10 years,pay a fine, and be fine,until the IRS letter arrives.and it shall.

You can get up to 15% off for good behavior serving Federal time. So if you get sentenced to five years (60 months), you will have to do at least 51 months before you're released.

I guess he was just charged recently? (I though he was already charged)
https://wjla.com/news/local/new-york...land-marijuana

In MANY cases, one is far better off when the case is prosecuted at the State level. Parole is often an option with eligibility depending on State law.

I have not had a parole case with anyone I can recall that had been sentenced that amount in their possession, although I had one client who was caught at a grow house. Case was pled down to the third-degree felony range (5-50 pounds) and got ten years (max on a third-degree in Texas). Eligibility came when total time equaled one-quarter of the sentence, which means a bit over a year flat. We got a favorable first vote and he was out inside of a year and a half.

Feds have no parole and you basically are going to do ~85% of any sentence imposed.

I still find it interesting that, in the States, most drugs are weighed by metric standards while pot is the only one referred to by ounces and pounds. There are some drugs out there measured by abuse units...have a client with an LSD possession case right now...a few ounces of liquid was determined to have been over 80K abuse units. Four year sentence...

well one hit 60 micro grams. 6 million micro grams is 6 grams. so a few ounces is actually a lot of lsd.

jfc... 4 years for a vial that does less harm than a beer? I know this **** happens all the time but god damn the justice system is ****ed. private prisons gotta survive somehow though right?

Four years was a gift...he was charged with a first-degree felony. In Texas, that means a potential sentence of up to 99 or life.

Trial counsel got it reduced to a second degree felony, so sentencing range was two years up to 20.

LSD is not something you see on the dockets very often...I think that throws the State sometimes in how to deal with the substance.

liquid lsd is also insanely potent and a tab someone buys is not even a drop of it. if you were to consume a few ounces of pure lsd id guess your brain would be farther out than the voyager missions.

re 360 pounds smoked, if you didnt have to worry about a job itd be super easy. i was also in the oz/week camp for a while and that was while working full time.

Poor guy, if not abused this stuff is harmless and has great medical benefits.

Gotta feel for him with the current climate of reform not only in the states but around the world

^^

Let's keep it real here..

With 360lbs, he was not trying to make the world a better place by helping others explore the medical benefits of marijuana

He was selling it to make money

( as an aside, its clear given the overwhelming science that marijuana has a wide range of medical benefits so not trying to derail into that discussion)

yeah, I'm aware. me and some friends were tripping one time and dosing straight from the vial with a dropper. when we took a second drop my friend accidentally squirted more than one drop into my other friend's mouth. we didn't see much of him after that, but legend has it he's still tripping to this day.

so... who cares? weed doesn't harm anyone and selling weed doesn't harm anyone. we let tobacco companies kill for profit legally, yet we send people to prison over a plant that isn't close to comparable in terms of toxicity or its impact on public health.

in a country where prisons are run for profit it's no surprise something as harmless as marijuana is criminalized. not to mention that the pharmaceutical /tobacco/alcohol companies have massive influence on our government, and they collectively have a monopoly on the recreational drug market which they would like to protect.

lmao. 4 years in prison for a substance that does less harm than alcohol or tobacco and was legal until relatively recent history is a gift? only under an authoritarian government

Did he pay taxes on his weed sales? If not he was evading taxes which harms all of us.

That’s enough weed to kill Willie Fu**in’ Nelson man.

Did he get arrested for tax evasion?

And yes, I know a few people who pay taxes on their weed sales.

I don't like you.

If you think people should be imprisoned (at a profit of $3300 per prisoner at Corrections Corporation of America - that's a real ****ing company) for any victimless crime related to weed or some other psychoactive substance I don't like you. So I guess the feeling is mutual

hero bets pot
feds repot
hero folds

350 lbs is a little over the line of "victim-less crime". this guys business has no regulations and im assuming isnt paying his taxes on his secret, illegal, racket.

who buys that much at once , im pretty sure only cops sell 50+ pounds of weed at once and maybe cartel members who will murder your face.

also they should give that guy back his property .

so who is the victim exactly? "Society"? You've got a willing buyer and a willing seller, I don't see how it is any different or worse than selling cigarettes or alcohol.

regardless how you anyone feels about current laws (I'm with Canada. just legalize it) it is current law. Assuming you are from USA , If you feel strongly about it then go vote in a few weeks and elect people that support your views to change the law. Anyone that does not go vote, has no right to complain.

That said, selling 350lbs of weed for profit is a serious crime. If authorities arbitrarily chose to enforce some laws and not others then things get a little chaotic in society.

In most states, pot sale for non-prescribed purposes is unregulated, unlike the sale of cigarettes and alcohol. Of those 360 lbs. of pot, some of it would have been consumed by 15 year olds, or those driving. Let's be real, while marijuana is in many respects safer than the widely legal recreational drugs, it's neither completely harmless nor fully researched for the potential negative health effects of chronic consumption. And that doesn't even consider the potential for violent crime from the cartel that supplied the 360 lbs.

just to add: there’s problems with mold being found in pot for sale legally under all state laws, so it’s quite possible part of 360 pounds is tainted. even an ounce being bad, which is only 1/5760% of the total, could cause significant harm to multiple people if it wasn’t caught before consumption.

not to mention there’s no telling how it was grown, legal pot is more transparent with that whole process if you want to avoid pesticides and all that type of stuff.

also mentions oil, which if packaged in cartridges, the ones on the black market tend to be absolute s*** that is use at your own risk. they’ll buy legitimate looking packaging in bulk from China so the carts look like they’re from a CA/CO dispensary but are actually filled with mystery oil that won’t match the “lab results” on the packaging.

EVEN THEN, Brass Knuckles, one of the biggest legal oil cartridge brands in LA and Vegas (they have billboards and stuff) was shown to have pesticides by an independent analysis, so if the regulated products are still working out the issues, how could black market be any better?

I love how a million straw mans just got thrown up by the anti-weed crowd.

lol. **** the law. The law allowed slavery, the law allowed concentration camps, the law allowed segregation and widespread discrimination, the law allows people to be imprisoned for 99 years for possession of substances less harmful than what the alcohol industries pushes on us.

And lmao that you think voting does a damn thing. The votes have already been cast my dude, sorry to burst your bubble.

So, do we arrest executives of alcohol companies because some alcohol is consumed by 15 year olds? We don't even arrest people who sell alcohol/tobacco to minors illegally - it's generally just a fine.

I do agree that marijuana is not completely harmless - neither is caffeine, a recreational drug used by the majority of Americans.

Everything else you mention is a product of prohibition - there's no research because the government won't fund it and for decades they've restricted anyone else from doing research: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6290/1182.1

As someone who was under the age of 21 quite recently, I can tell you that accessing alcohol as a minor was far more difficult than accessing marijuana. You wanna keep weed away from kids? Make them show ID for it. When most weed is sold by your local high schooler it's kinda tough to keep it out of kids hands. Yeah, the dealer gets busted every 6 months or so, but there's always more dumbass kids looking to make a buck.

You're assuming that the 360lb came from a cartel. I'm not denying that it could have, but you guys act like 360lb is impossible to grow outside of some criminal organization. 360lb could come from as few as 100-200 plants. I've been on multiple farms here in california with waaaaay more quantity than that. 360lb is child's play

Besides, legalize it federally and the cartel loses a revenue stream. Prohibition is the cause of every social issue related to marijuana

Gonna take a bit more than a random post on 2+2 to burst my bubble, but OK. I fully understand The Theory of the Calculus of Voting (google it).

But given your attitudes, sounds like you should stop paying your taxes, buy a few assault rifles, 3 years of food and move to a log cabin in the middle of Montana.