Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
MARIJUANA: THE PRISONER OF WAR QUESTION
A question has been raised relative to the fate and future of those inmates now imprisoned for marijuana offenses in states where its possession and use have become legal? That is a very good question.The disposition of crime and punishment is a function and incident of power: economic, political, military, cultural and spiritual power. Those incarcerated or those desirous of their marijuana-related release would do well to access one or more of those levers of power in some persistent and organized manner! It is rather like being held as a prisoner of a now-finished war!