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Punishment outweighs the crime

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

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Dear Editor, Probably like a great majority of the folks in this country who are not ultra-conservative, religious zealots or don’t have a stone-age mentality, I am both appalled and outraged that an individual who was recently found guilty of selling a few grams of marijuana has been forced to rot in jail for four months before the judge hands down his sentence in August.

Dear Editor, Probably like a great majority of the folks in this country who are not ultra-conservative, religious zealots or don’t have a stone-age mentality, I am both appalled and outraged that an individual who was recently found guilty of selling a few grams of marijuana has been forced to rot in jail for four months before the judge hands down his sentence in August.


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