LETTER TO UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION FOR LIFE FOR POT RELEASE NON-VIOLENT MARIJUANA OFFENDERS
FIRST - JUST A LITTLE COMMERCIAL
End Mandatory Minimums and remove marijuana from the
Schedule of the Controlled Substance Act
We have the right to expect our
government to be fiscally responsible and respect the civil liberties of its
citizens
EVERY YEAR U.S. CITIZENS
VOLUNTARILY PAY TAXES TO THEIR GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC
GOOD
http://www.lifeforpot.com
LIFE FOR POT
RELEASE NON-VIOLENT MARIJUANA ONLY OFFENDERS
PLEASE REMEMBER $40,000.00 TO $72,000.00
WILL
BE SPENT PER MAN
EACH YEAR TO KEEP
THESE SENIOR NON-VIOLENT MARIJUANA ONLY OFFENDERS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR THE REST OF THEIR
LIVES.
IN
THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
THEY
SHOULD BE RELEASED
http://www.lifeforpot.com
LETTER TO USSC
Beth Curtis
Life
for Pot
100 Hale Rd
Zanesville, OH. 43701
Ph.# 740 452 2867
July 10, 2013
Att:
Public Affairs Priorities Comment
United
States Sentencing Commission
One
Columbus Circle NE
Suite
2-500 Lobby
Washington
DC 20002-8002
RE:
Sentencing Guidelines for United States Courts
Dear
Chairman Patti Saris and Commission Members,
LFP
has distinct and significant concerns with mandatory minimums. We represent a group of Federal inmates who
were convicted of non-violent, marijuana only offenses who have received Life
without Parole in the federal system.
These
inmates have no violent priors and no violence in their current cases, yet they
are serving sentences that some consider worse than death.
Amendment 1.
Amendment 2.
In
these cases, the controlling length of sentencing should be limited by a
maximum, not a minimum sentence. The
Texas legislature did this by reducing the term for drug and property offenses
from a maximum of 10 years to a maximum of 5 years. Mandatory minimums make no more sense than
mandatory maximums.
Non-violent
marijuana offenders are serving sentences of Life without Parole while Venture
Capitalists and entrepreneurs are developing business plans to manufacture and distribute
the same substance. Marijuana remains as
a schedule I drug as states continue to legalize it in varying degrees. These are difficult contradictions and demean
the system.
Sentencing
for conspiracy is overly broad and encompassing and also too easily prosecuted
when the prosecutor's job is facilitated by sting operations, co-operating
witnesses and mandatory sentencing.
These
sentencing circumstances are not universally respected.
