Six months is the lowest prison sentence for anything in the CDSA, for a first offense. This is actually your second offense, if I'm not mistaken. How can you argue that it's an unfair sentence? You could get that for simple possession. You had 10 pounds of weed and hash, a bunch of mushrooms and some opium (I know the opium wasn't included in the charges) and you were selling them. Do you seriously think they should have just let you off with a fine? You had $5000 in cash laying around. Why would a fine bother you? Be thankful they gave you the lowest possible sentence instead of the life sentence they could have given you. If the amount was less than 3 kg they could only have given you a maximum of 5 years less a day. Even trafficking a Schedule 4 substance has a possible sentence of 1-3 years.
Spending the winter inside isn't all that bad anyway. Think of all those suckers out there who have to shovel snow and scrape frost so they can go to work to pay for rent and food. Now the taxpayers are paying for your living expenses. Pretty sweet way to kill a winter. By spring you'll be pumped up from the weight room and ready to hit the beach. You survived an encounter with the dragon (Canadian justice system) and came away barely scathed. I would consider that a victory. Now that you have been in prison you will have more street cred too.
Next time sell your drugs in a more creative way. Storefronts are just too easy a target for the authorities. I know they're dumb but there are limitations to even their dumbness. Do it by mail order only. Budmail did it for quite a long time with no legal problems and Budbuddy is still doing it successfully. Start formulating your scheme for establishing Budmail 2, or perhaps Herbmail. Make your million and then quit. It may be less interesting than running a physical store, but it has a much better profit/risk profile. And for godsakes don't give it away. Use it to start a legal business and then give some of those profits away if you feel compelled to do so. You don't give away your hard earned investment capital. That would be insane.
Submitted by Anonymous () on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:28.
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Six months is the lowest prison sentence for anything in the CDSA, for a first offense. This is actually your second offense, if I'm not mistaken. How can you argue that it's an unfair sentence? You could get that for simple possession. You had 10 pounds of weed and hash, a bunch of mushrooms and some opium (I know the opium wasn't included in the charges) and you were selling them. Do you seriously think they should have just let you off with a fine? You had $5000 in cash laying around. Why would a fine bother you? Be thankful they gave you the lowest possible sentence instead of the life sentence they could have given you. If the amount was less than 3 kg they could only have given you a maximum of 5 years less a day. Even trafficking a Schedule 4 substance has a possible sentence of 1-3 years.
Spending the winter inside isn't all that bad anyway. Think of all those suckers out there who have to shovel snow and scrape frost so they can go to work to pay for rent and food. Now the taxpayers are paying for your living expenses. Pretty sweet way to kill a winter. By spring you'll be pumped up from the weight room and ready to hit the beach. You survived an encounter with the dragon (Canadian justice system) and came away barely scathed. I would consider that a victory. Now that you have been in prison you will have more street cred too.
Next time sell your drugs in a more creative way. Storefronts are just too easy a target for the authorities. I know they're dumb but there are limitations to even their dumbness. Do it by mail order only. Budmail did it for quite a long time with no legal problems and Budbuddy is still doing it successfully. Start formulating your scheme for establishing Budmail 2, or perhaps Herbmail. Make your million and then quit. It may be less interesting than running a physical store, but it has a much better profit/risk profile. And for godsakes don't give it away. Use it to start a legal business and then give some of those profits away if you feel compelled to do so. You don't give away your hard earned investment capital. That would be insane.