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xiphiasBallot Question 2 in Massachusetts would turn possession of 1 oz or less of marijuana from a criminal offense to a civil offense.
Someone on my friends list, who is working out how she wants to vote, asked, "So, how much IS that, anyway? How many joints do you make from an ounce of marijuana?"
I realized that I have no clue, and that that could really be a significant question . . .
I did some Google searches, and what I turned up suggested that perhaps an ounce would be as much as a single pot smoker could reasonably be expected to consume in a week, but I don't know that for sure.
So . . . I'm pretty darned certain that SOME of you would have a better feel for this than I would. As always, anonymous commenting is allowed; IP tracking is off; if you don't want to explain how you know stuff, feel free not to explain.
But . . . how many joints are in an ounce? How many people would consume an ounce? How long would it take one casual user to go through an ounce, a heavy user, an occasional user?
I mean, I don't assume that there would be a one single answer -- I assume that there are lots of variables, from type of weed to type of smoker to all sorts of things -- but I just want a ballpark order-of-magnitude thing. Would one ounce make one joint? Would one ounce make a thousand joints? I have no way of knowing.
Someone on my friends list, who is working out how she wants to vote, asked, "So, how much IS that, anyway? How many joints do you make from an ounce of marijuana?"
I realized that I have no clue, and that that could really be a significant question . . .
I did some Google searches, and what I turned up suggested that perhaps an ounce would be as much as a single pot smoker could reasonably be expected to consume in a week, but I don't know that for sure.
So . . . I'm pretty darned certain that SOME of you would have a better feel for this than I would. As always, anonymous commenting is allowed; IP tracking is off; if you don't want to explain how you know stuff, feel free not to explain.
But . . . how many joints are in an ounce? How many people would consume an ounce? How long would it take one casual user to go through an ounce, a heavy user, an occasional user?
I mean, I don't assume that there would be a one single answer -- I assume that there are lots of variables, from type of weed to type of smoker to all sorts of things -- but I just want a ballpark order-of-magnitude thing. Would one ounce make one joint? Would one ounce make a thousand joints? I have no way of knowing.
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Date: 2008-10-30 10:05 pm (UTC)Jails are feeder systems for prisons. You can have the same exact population of hard core criminals in a jail - if the time they pulled down for what they've done this time is less than a year (in some states, 2) you go to jail and not prison.
Which means you can be a convicted murder, do your time inside, get out, commit a smaller crime, let's say petty larceny, and get 9 months. You go to jail, right next to the kid who tried to defraud the welfare system.
It is not a good thing. It is worse for women than for men, for there are fewer women's prisons.
Jail is cheaper than prison, to run and staff. They're also more chronically overcrowded and understaffed. The percentage of actively untreated mentally ill people is higher in jails than in prison.
Additionally, if you've been arrested and you can't make bail, you wait in jail -- even if you've not been convicted. Which is horrific, at best, in some instances.