Originally Posted by SleazyDream

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...schlosser.html

There are more people now in federal prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses.

Under the laws of fifteen states, you can get a life sentence for a nonviolent marijuana offense.

In terms of the discrepancies between marijuana laws in different states--most people don't realize that the drug laws of this state operate at the federal, local and state level so you can be charged under any one of those three types of laws for a marijuana crime.

in Montana you can get a life sentence for a first offense for growing one marijuana plant. In New Mexico, which is not far away, you can be growing ten thousand marijuana plants for a first offense and get a punishment of no more than three years. Under federal law, you can get the death sentence for a first-time marijuana offense even if there's no violence involved.