Do you smoke weed?

[dalegg 143]

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[Nagishkaw 510]

Bogart

Gotta love Jimmy's Floyd shirt!

Edited May 11, 2008 by Nagishkaw

[Sheriff Uling 3]

P.S. Did u shot the sheriff? haha

Huh...!!! I'm haven't been shot but all you weed smokers are busted!

Edited May 11, 2008 by Sheriff Uling

[dalegg 143]

P.S. Did u shot the sheriff? haha

Huh...!!! I'm haven't been shot

He's actually only the deputy.

[Nessa 23]

what? you're from Jamaica and you don't smoke weed? That's absurd!! That's like saying I'm from Brazil and I don't have a big round butt.

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[Sheriff Uling 3]

As you can see above, brazilians have nice big beautiful round butts. Therefore, all Jamaicans must smoke weed.

Edited May 11, 2008 by Sheriff Uling

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Exactly.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

How well did you know Bob Marley?

Don't tell me you couldn't even find a pic of the man with spliff in hand !!!!

[foreverido 2]

How well did you know Bob Marley?

Don't tell me you couldn't even find a pic of the man with spliff in hand !!!!

Wow....so many photos of Bob smoking!!! Maybe i do smoke weed....and yea Brazilian women do have nice butts. lol...lol.

[natty bumppo 297]

what? you're from Jamaica and you don't smoke weed? That's absurd!! That's like saying I'm from Brazil and I don't have a big round butt.

we need pics ...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

what? you're from Jamaica and you don't smoke weed? That's absurd!! That's like saying I'm from Brazil and I don't have a big round butt.

Post pics to prove me wrong. yo!

[Fandango 1,440]

What you are dealing with is lack of education, and in this country there is plenty of it. Marijuana is associated with the criminal, urban, non-white element, which is sadly a stereotype. The anti-marijuana camps don’t want to be perceived as soft on crime/drugs, since this will cost those votes. At this time, United States has more of its population in prison than the entire world. The numbers are staggering, but prison and police states are good business. I smoked, did during chemotherapy, and when I get really sick, a lot of us patients know from first-hand experience that marijuana is the only effective treatment for us. It is not anywhere as powerful as the morphine they love to give you, and is highly addictive. As long as people stay in the stone ages of the Regan era, they will always associate marijuana with the young black male in dregs. In reality it is a lot of normal, professional, and successful human beings that par take in marijuana, some are very ill, so where do you stand now on this issue. Should you take away something that works, let’s you continue the chemo. Without it you are extremely ill, so smoking marijuana doesn’t make you a thud, or criminal. If it wasn't for marijuana, I would have stopped chemo, I hate throwing up I always have, almost phobic on the topic, so without this drug, I would have said, no way. It in a way saved my life.

3 things:

1 - you really shouldnt throw out the 'more US people in jail than any other country' because it's not totally relevant to marijuana use. It's a gross oversimplification which I feel you're trying to relate entirely to an unfair practice of marijuana being a criminal offense...which you can't really draw a parallel of total US incarcerations as related to weed without some crazy long dissertation or direct relevant statistics. Does the incarcerated rapist have anything to do with what you call a 'police state'? I don't think so.

2 - Weed has no stereotype imo...it is used by all races, ages, genders. It's not some 'urban criminal, non white' thing. It certainly isn't directed solely to the 'young black male in dreds'. But we can't ignore that there are copious amts of weed a plenty in Jamaica.

3 - Im sorry to hear you were so sick & hope you're better now!

[SaadBell 0]

According to the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College London, the U.S. currently has the largest documented prison population in the world, both in absolute and proportional terms. We've got roughly 2.03 million people behind bars, or 701 per 100,000 population. China has the second-largest number of prisoners (1.51 million, for a rate of 117 per 100,000), and Russia has the second-highest rate (606 per 100,000, for a total of 865,000). Russia had the highest rate for years, but has released hundreds of thousands of prisoners since 1998; meanwhile the U.S. prison population has grown by even more. Rounding out the top ten, with rates from 554 to 437, are Belarus, Bermuda (UK), Kazakhstan, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), the Cayman Islands (UK), Turkmenistan, Belize, and Suriname, which you'll have to agree puts America in interesting company. South Africa, a longtime star performer on the list, has dropped to 15th place (402) since the dismantling of apartheid.

I'm not aware of any attempt to systematically compare imprisonment rates for all the world's sovereign states throughout history, and compiling such a list would be a daunting task. (Fax me those Sumerian jail records, would you?) But Stalin's Soviet Union, with its huge network of forced-labor camps, would surely be near the top. I've seen widely varying figures, but let's use the conservative Britannica number of five million prisoners in the Gulag in 1936. That works out to more than 3,000 per 100,000. The record holder, though, is undoubtedly Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: the regime forced virtually the entire population into labor camps or prisons during the late 1970s, killing as many as two million of the country's six to seven million people.

Nazi Germany employed millions of slave laborers, but most were foreign nationals during wartime, so the comparison doesn't seem apt. China, though . . . well, 1.5 million prisoners is just the official figure. Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in forced-labor camps for criticizing the government, estimates that 16 to 20 million of his countrymen are incarcerated, including common criminals, political prisoners, and people in involuntary job placements. Even ten million prisoners would make for a rate of 793 per 100,000.

Another nation suspected to have a lot of prisoners is North Korea. The country isn't listed in ICPS statistics, but a recent NBC News investigation put the number of political prisoners alone at 200,000, or more than 900 per 100,000.

Great, you're thinking. The only countries that might put away more of their own people than we do are both notorious authoritarian states. No question: considering we're supposed to be the land of the free, we've got a huge number of folks locked up. Most countries, including almost all our industrialized peers, have imprisonment rates under 200. India, hardly an orderly utopia, has a rate of just 29. What gives? You can try to explain our prison boom by pointing to political gambits like mandatory sentencing laws and the war on drugs, but that's dodging the question: Is crime here really that much worse than everywhere else?

Not necessarily. A comparison with the UK (incarceration rate for England and Wales: 140) is instructive. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report, rates for many types of serious crime are similar in the U.S. and UK, but between 1981 and 1996 they dropped here and rose there. Rates of burglary, assault, and car theft are now higher in Britain. Murder and rape are still vastly higher here, but the gap has narrowed. American law-and-order advocates will say: Of course! We put more of our bad guys in jail! Defenders of civil liberties, on the other hand, tend to see the get-tough approach as a way of putting the screws to minorities, whose chances of getting sent up the river--even for minor offenses like marijuana possession--are disproportionately high. Do more convicts = less crime? A knotty question

[Fandango 1,440]

You've missed my point entirely....

The fact that we have the 'most incarcerations' means nothing in relation to a debate over weed. Now if you wanted to cite weed incarcerations, THEN you'd have a point to argue.

And an article that compares US prison sys to Nazi Germany, the Gulag, et al is bollox. Are you proposing we don't punish our criminals?