Friday, August 9, 2013



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,

 This testimony is submitted by the organization LFP – Life for Pot http://www.lifeforpot.com

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.