Jury Gives Pot Dealer 9-Year Prison Term

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Jury Gives Pot Dealer 9-Year Prison Term

Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:22 pm

A Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office undercover investigation has resulted in the conviction of two marijuana dealers. ... During the sting operation in December 2012, undercover investigators purchased more than 11 ounces of marijuana from Jennifer Lynn Murphy, 37, and Casey Andrew MacDonald, 29, at Murphy’s home in Sterling.

MacDonald in September pleaded guilty to a charge of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and on Monday was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison.

Murphy’s case went to trial, and last week a jury found her guilty of distribution of marijuana, recommending a nine-year prison term. Circuit Court Judge Jeanette A. Irby will set the sentence March 13.

“The trafficking of illegal drugs continues to be the most significant and growing crime currently plaguing our county,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman stated in announcing results. “This verdict makes it clear that the community acknowledges its severity and how it wishes for the courts to handle repeat offenders.”

[Feral Child]

1. Bullshit morality laws.

The original, never answered question:

Why is cannabis illegal when alcohol distribution is a major industry?

[The River]

2. Meanwhile Christmas Shoppers in Several States

politely line up in legal Cannabis Shops to buy a little Christmas cheer.

The difference? States that allow their citizens a direct voice in government through
the process of Initiatives and Referendums vs. those that don't. (See map here)

Virginia does not allow it's citizens this opportunity...

" While the Populist call for "more democracy" was gaining strength throughout most of the nation, Virginia's ruling Democratic Party was giving its citizens less democracy. In May 1901, voters elected 100 delegates to a state constitutional convention, 89 of them Democrats. The new constitution they approved included a poll tax and a literacy test, both designed to prevent poor whites and blacks from voting. The delegates did not even submit the new constitution to the voters for ratification, having it take effect instead "by [their own] proclamation." In this context, it is surprising not that Virginia's Progressives failed to amend their state constitution to include I&R, but that they even tried.

The Progressives' hopes for a statewide I&R amendment ran highest in 1914, when state Attorney General John Garland Pollard was elected president of the newly formed Progressive Democratic League, which included I&R on its reform agenda. That same year the House of Delegates approved an I&R amendment by a lopsided 64 to 24 vote, but the measure died in the senate. "


More at link

[Leontius]

3. There is supposed to be a decriminalization bill introduced this session

Show some support if it is introduced. Make your voice heard.

[billhicks76]

4. What Cops Are Up To These Days

They protect no one. They let murders and thefts go uninvestigated but they go after kids selling weed. 11 ounces and prison for years? This amount is the equivalent of one keg at a party and asking for donations. Who is the real evil here?

[williesgirl]

5. Meanwhile, we Virginians have to pay for her incarceration!