[420 Girl]

Did you know that marijuana is a "pollution spread throughout the community?" U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman does. Seattleites likely recognize her name from the Sonics relocation trial, but she presides over all sorts of things. Including, unfortunately, marijuana cases.

In sentencing Snohomish County resident Jerry Berkey to seven years in prison and five years of supervised release for growing—that's more time than most violent offenses fetch—she used the aforementioned language to describe the giggle- and munchie-inducing drug with medicinal qualities and no known lethal dose. She also said, "You haven't earned a decent living legally in years. What did you tell your kids when you came home, 'Daddy's had a tough day at the grow?'"

Maybe he told them our public officials are insane for not fixing their budget problems by legalizing and taxing the quite unfairly-maligned herb.

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/in...a-pechman.html