TAFT - Wearing prison-issue yellow clothes, Patricia Spottedcrow reflects on her first year in prison through the lens of tears and determination.
One year ago, on the week of Christmas, the first-time offender was checked into the Eddie Warrior women's prison - the first holiday away from her four young children.
"I cried and cried just thinking of my kids opening presents on Christmas and I wasn't there," she said. "This year, it's going to be any other day. I try not to keep up with days in here."
At her mother's home in Kingfisher, there is a somber tone among her children - ages 2, 4, 5 and 10.
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awww trying to make a drug dealer into a sob story! stupid. plain stupid. next we will hear of rapists and murderers telling their side of how horrible their lives are.
ReplyDeleteno sympathy. you are a sum of the decisions you make.
To 8:40, selling a plant to a willing buyer is far different than raping or murdering someone. If you can't see the difference then you are a troubled individual.
ReplyDeleteNo one should get prison time for victimless crimes.
9:39~ So if someone bought her pot and drove a car high as a kite and killed you or your family, how would you feel then?
ReplyDeleteHeres my little violin. You should have been thinking of your kids when you were toking.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 9:47, bad example. When is the last time you ever saw or heard of someone smoking pot and driving fast? It doesn't happen. Mind you, I'm no pot smoker but don't ever think for a second I haven't had numerous friends who are. Trust me, they drive like Granny's.
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ReplyDeletePot is a proven gateway drug. So when this seller gets a promotion to selling crack,and other highly addictive drugs, using your theory we should just give her a slap on the wrist and say "now now that isn't nice". We are all victims when drugs infest our neighborhoods. I guess this is just more thinking of a typical Obama voter.
I did not say that they were driving fast. I said they were high as a kite and make poor judgements behind the wheel that could cause an accident. Smoking pot impairs your judgement. And no, I don't feel sorry for this woman.
ReplyDeleteHow about the proceeds from the sale of that pot eventually pay for the drug cartels in Mexico that are wholesale killing people.
ReplyDeleteVictimless crime? Not hardly!
Pot is a proven gateway drug. 9:54 AM
ReplyDeleteNo it's not.
9:54 It has been proven time and time again that pot is NOT a gateway drug. Your perpetuating a lie.
ReplyDeletePot is not a gateway drug only the person decides to use harder drugs not the pot!
ReplyDeleteNow that is criminal, not only the caging of a mother but the forced taxation of others to pay for it. Very criminal and we all (taxpayers) are the victims as well as the mother and her children.
ReplyDelete9:39 here again. Let me get one thing straight -- I'm no pot smoker and have never tried it. I think if you use it you're an idiot. And I'm a pretty strong Republican. So let's just get that out of the way.
ReplyDeleteOf course no one should smoke pot and drive. There's not convincing evidence that marijuana impedes driving ability, though. There's also evidence that where medical marijuana is legal, DUIs go down. It's likely that making marijuana legal would actually reduce the number of people who drive drunk.
But if a driver was high on marijuana and killed my family, I'd blame that person for the crime, not the substance in his system.
On the gateway drug argument -- I'm not convinced. Yes, people who use harder drugs usually used marijuana prior to first smoking crack or whatever. So what? They also usually drank water and breathed air before they used harder drugs, too. Is water a "gateway drug"? People who use drugs use a wide variety of drugs. It's not like using marijuana leads people to other drugs. There's absolutely no evidence to support this assertion.
To the idea that marijuana sales support drug cartels -- of course they do. When something is illegal, only criminals sell it. When alcohol was illegal, alcohol cartels sold it. Legalize marijuana, though, and the proceeds won't be going to criminal gangs.
The problems people blame on marijuana are problems caused by the laws making it illegal, not the substance itself. End drug prohibition and you'll end the problems you all fear.
Alcohol is poison. When you "feel" the effects of alcohol you are experiencing the effect of toxic poison on your body and mind. Alcohol is addictive. Alcohol is legal Government sanctioned poison.
ReplyDeleteweed is a plant used in unaltered form. It grows wild all over the world. Most commenter's here do not have a clue as to the effects of marijuana and comments should be dismissed. I for one can tell you it is nothing like the poisonous toxic effect of alcohol.
Weed has never killed anyone.