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Re:Prison Map by pcthrowaway on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:33AM (#8878600)
Please do some research on this. I guarantee you there are more than 500 people in jail at any given time for possession of weed. At least two out of roughly 40 people in my pod when I spent a week in jail were there for possession of marijuana alone.
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Re:Prison Map by pcthrowaway on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:51AM (#8878862)
Actually, I just remembered, one of those was in jail for possession of marijuana paraphernalia not even marijuana.
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Re:Prison Map by rhino369 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @08:09AM (#8885959)
Simple possession or with intent to distribute?

Or are we talking about awaiting a bail hearing?

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Re:Prison Map by pcthrowaway on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:10AM (#8898037)
When you are arrested in the United States, you are taken to jail. After you have your bond set, you will be released upon someone posting bail. You stated that it's very rare for simple possession to land you in jail. There was one person in jail for having been arrested with weed, and another arrested for paraphernalia. Both may have received a sentence of time served plus probation, but that doesn't negate the fact that lots of space in our jails at any given time is being filled up by people arrested with marijuana.
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