Man gets life for pot

Operation UNITE is writing Louisiana's laws now too?

A 35-year-old Louisiana man must spend the rest of his life in prison all because he just received his fourth marijuana conviction. This is a man who had most of his life still ahead of him, and now his future is dashed by a bloodthirsty War on Drugs. Not only that, but a child is now growing up without his dad.

This outrageous sentence was recently imposed by Judge Raymond Childress in St. Tammany Parish. (Where else? Also, as a side note, that's the parish where I accidentally spilled Mountain Dew down inside a motel TV.)

While a man serves life for marijuana, murderers and serial rapists get out of prison after only 5 years at most.

Where's the "small government" types to protest this sentence? The taxpayers are paying to keep the man in prison, you know.

(Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/05/fourth_marijuana_conviction_ge.html)