Tag: Tommy Benton
Posted on Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:11:29 PM EST
Tags: Tommy Benton, marijuana reform (all tags)
Via NORML, which is encouraging people to contact their legislators about marijuana reform, here's the e-mail that a constituent received back from GA Rep. Tommy Benton (31st House District). He says he favors caning for minor pot offenders and execution for those that sell marijuana:
Thanks for the email. We will have to agree to disagree on this and whether or not money is wasted. I am opposed to the legalization of marijuana. I think we should go to caning for people caught using and maybe execute dealers. That would solve the problem as well. That is what they do in Singapore and they don’t have a drug problem, but then they have less liberty than we do here.
Rep. Tommy Benton
tommy.benton@house.ga.gov
In a follow-up e-mail, Benton threatened: [More...]
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