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- From: Paul Hager <hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 14:36:36 -0500
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Drug war sentencing calculus (was Re: Nuclear Drugs)
-
- lamont@hyperreal.com (Lamont Granquist) writes:
- >One thing that Alexander Shulgin commented on when I was talking to him
- >after the DPF meeting in SF was that "one kilo of cocaine equals three
- >nuclear warheads." -- referring to the sentencing guideline of 30 years for
- >a kilo of cocaine vs. 12 years for unlawful possession of a nuclear warhead.
-
- Yes, and you could throw in 4 human corpses. I spoke with Steve
- Dillon the other day. (Dillon is the head of Indiana NORML and
- a prominent member of the state Libertarian Party.) He stated that
- a client of his got 30 years for cocaine possession with intent
- to deal at about the same time that a guy who blugeoned to death
- his girlfriend got 7 years.
-
- So, 1 Kg cocaine = 3 nukes = 4 murders.
-