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Comment by pfarnsworth | Hacker News Reader

May I ask what did you do to get punished with 3 years in solitary confinement?

Possession of marijuana while in a correctional institution. My case got dragged out and I was in solitary until it was resolved.

EDIT: I'll add to this that marijuana was one of the things that helped me in prison. It really did function as a medicine at times, letting me drift away from the craziness of my situation and think about myself and what I wanted to become and the person I wanted to be. I think that helped me to internally rehabilitate myself and become the person I am today.

Wow 3 years for that sounds particularly harsh. I'm sorry that happened but I'm glad you feel better for the experience.

It doesn't sound harsh. It is. It's worse than that. It's a moral abomination with no rational basis in humanity whatsover.

Don't sugar coat the reprehensible to sound agreeable.

This is insane, revolting. I can't understand how this is even possible in a civilized country.

>> how this is even possible in a civilized country.

Its not. we do not live in a Civilized Country (the USA) we live in a Barbaric Nation with as the facade of civility painted over the Barbarism

The current USA is definitely far away from civilized indeed.

You can’t have the president of a civilized nation threatening nuclear war because he woke up on the wrong side of bed.

I can’t believe you got solidarity for marijuana. How do you feel that now it’s legal in so many states?

My personal feelings about getting 3 years of solitary for marijuana possession are that I got screwed because of a failed social experiment, to be honest.

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