GA. Lawmaker Calls for Caning and Execution of Marijuana Offenders

[madmusic]

Via http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/8/12/201129/051">TalkLeft.

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
[e-mail]

In a follow-up e-mail, Benton threatened:

...to turn over the names of citizens who disagreed with his political viewpoints to local law enforcement.

He wrote: “You and your cronies want it (marijuana) legalized so you can get a hit anytime without having to worry about getting arrested. I have forwarded your email to the Lowndes County sheriffs office so that they can be on the lookout for you. Consider this my last correspondence on the the subject to you or anyone else who shares your similar “conservative views’.”

Benton was elected in 2005.

[madokie]

1. What a dick

head

[Hawkeye-X]

2. This ex-smoker calls for tar & feathering of one Thomas Benton

And bong this mofo up!

Bet he has not even smoked a joint in his life.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. I'd love for him to be summoned by the Majority Leader

and have him say that on record so he can have his last words recorded for posterity.

BEFORE the said above statement.

Hawkeye-X

[Mike K]

4. Ever wonder how the Nazis came to be?

Or what motivates the Taliban.