SOME 800,000 AMERICANS
BUSTED ANNUALLY FOR POT
By Sherwood Ross
Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons---but the public is starting to rebel against "the preposterous war on pot, two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.
"People convicted of possessing even one ounce of marijuana can face a mandatory minimum sentence of a year in jail, and having even one plant in your yard is a federal felony, progressive organizer Jim Hightower and co-author Phillip Frazer point out in the November issue of "The Hightower Lowdown.
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