Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Severe

Penn Jillette goes nuts on Obama for his causal, cool guy attitude about his past drug use in contrast to his policies to have the Feds raid California medical marijuana spots and putting away people in prison for marijuana crimes.

He says something like, "can you imagine what it would be like if you had a kid in prison...prison...for pot use, and then you have the President on Jimmy Fallon joking about it smugly?"

Rich people don't go to jail for drug related crimes, only poor people do.

2 comments:

Charles said...

Holy shit. Awesome!

Charles said...

Upon further review - what Penn says doesn't exactly hold up - even if his point is still accurate. He gets all wound up about people in prison being tied to pot.

Using pot is a misdemeanor - which is not something you go to jail for. So Obama never would have gone to jail for using small amounts of pot. In larger amounts it becomes a felony.

On the other hand using cocaine is always a felony and something you do go to jail for.

However - Penn's rant certainly makes is sound as if a bunch of casual pot smokers are in prison.

Regardless - the drug policies of the United Staes are absolutely a type of class warfare - and a fucking travesty in my opinion.