EDITOR:
I know we all have understood that if you have money you can buy freedom. The atrocities that are executed by those we look at to uphold our justice system and Constitution have attained a new high. A boy of 19 was sentenced to prison for possessing a gallon size bag of "magic mushrooms." A substance that grows naturally a state away. It was his first offense, no prior criminal history, no juvenile history.
This is not a drug that leads to violent offenses. I've never heard of anyone being robbed or killed because someone needed to get a hold of it, it isn't repeatedly blamed for violence and tearing families apart or destroying a person's finances and career. It is not manufactured in your next door neighbors house while children play on the floor. This doesn't make it right but shouldn't this young person get the chance to change? After all doesn't our judicial system offer it to the meth addict, the multiple DUI offender, the "stoner?"
Another young boy who stated he had three times as many mushrooms and over 80 tablets of ecstasy was able to hire an attorney. In the same county of Douglas in the state of Nevada this young man was able to get house arrest and probationary terms that when completed his felony will be expunged from his record, why?, how?, because he could hire an attorney. We continue to be a society that can't or refuses to look at people and circumstances; it's judgment by their color "green."
Christine Larson
Gardnerville
