cannabisnews.com: Grandson Of Former President Admits MJ Possession Grandson Of Former President Admits MJ Possession Posted by FoM on December 10, 2000 at 06:55:32 PT By Associated Press Source: S.F.Gate The 22-year-old grandson of former President Ronald Reagan admitted to having less than an ounce of marijuana in his possession, and in turn, violating his probation. Cameron Reagan admitted the violation Friday to Superior Court Judge Michelle R. Rosenblatt. He was ordered to return to court Jan. 8, when he is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in a correctional facility. Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino said she will ask the judge to place Reagan in a ``very structured residential program, analogous to a 'boot camp.''' Reagan was sentenced to six months in jail and three years probation after he pleaded no contest in 1999 to a charge of receiving stolen property in connection with a car break-in. Last week, prosecutors dropped theft charges against Reagan due to lack of evidence. The allegations came from an ex-girlfriend who claimed Reagan stole two diamond rings, a watch and a bracelet from her Granada Hills home last May. Source: Associated PressPublished: Sunday, December 10, 2000 Copyright: 2000 Associated Press Just Say “No” http://www.roca.org/OA/70/70a.htm Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #8 posted by Ex Girlfriend on February 13, 2001 at 11:46:50 PT I Can't believe he got off so easy!!!! Im the ex girlfriend of Cameron Reagan and i felt he got off so eazy not only did he steal and trash my car he used my money to buy his drugs what got him busted is the dumbazz had his friend take a picture of him holding the weed and i had that picture cause there were also pictures of us,so thats what got him busted but 3mos in bootcamp is nothing he should get locked up like the rest of the people who do the crime if it had been any one else in a pic holding weed there would of done longer than 3mos specially for violating probation.... [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by Frank on December 12, 2000 at 02:42:38 PT The American "Just Us" System What a laugh, what goes around comes around. I think young Reagen should receive a much stiffer sentence than a Hispanic youth received in our community recently – 7 years in prison. The Hispanic youth only had a marijuana seed in the ashtray of his car -- they don't send anyone to prison anymore for Pot -- Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Of course the Hispanic youth had a brown skin and that makes all the difference in the world to the American “Just Us” system. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by Lehder on December 10, 2000 at 15:53:12 PT Nancy Maybe it was Nancy, as concerned citizen, who snitched on him. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by observer on December 10, 2000 at 12:54:42 PT Reagan's Hate Rhetoric Returns Home The 22-year-old grandson of former President Ronald Reagan admitted to having less than an ounce of marijuana in his possession, and in turn, violating his probation. (Here we see yet another reason why drug warriors are so keen to keep laws on the books that allow police to throw peaceful marijuana users in jail. They're always screaming that, "judges here rarely incarcerate people for drug possession; that penalty is meted out almost exclusively to dealers." (ex: http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread7957.shtml ) -- as they plead that the drug laws only be changed to be made harsher, disallaowing the unprofitable thought that simply returning to traditional freedoms even be considered. So we see what "rarely incarcerate people for drug possession" assurances are worth.)The world is chock full of irony these days, isn't it? A drug raid on a staunch, politically-correct in every respect (church-lady, public school principal) drug warriors' own home, earlier. Now this story: Reagan's odious, intolerant, and demonizing drug-user scapegoating comes home to roost. One can only hope that Nancy Reagan, at least, can learn from this and like Charles Rangel publically renounce this witch-hunt. (Hope springs eternal?)Richard L Miller, in Drug Warriors and their Prey (1996) mentions some of Nancy Reagan's demonization of adult Americans who choose to use cannabis responsibly. The news was full of this sort of hate which dripped almost daily from the lips of Mrs Reagan during the 80's. . . . Like Nazis, drug warriors like to portray their victims as murders. Nancy Reagan declared, "If you're a casual drug user, you're an accomplice to murder." (p.23). . .A dramatic change occurred in the 1980s. For the first time, all drug users came under attack for their drug use alone, not because they were members of some group hated for another reason. As in Germany fifty years earlier, fearful citizens had elected a national leader who promised to restore the nation to past levels of glory. As in Germany, citizens yearned for a simple explanation of problems confronting the nation. President Ronald Reagan and his spouse Nancy Reagan announced that drug users were threatening America. As the perceived threat from communism dwindled, the president pumped up the perceived threat from drug users to justify authoritarian governmental actions that had earlier been justified as a response to the communist threat. Previous experiments with criminal law, using drugs as a cover to attack specific hated groups, had given government officials the necessary experience to widen the swath to all illicit drug users immediately upon President Reagan's order. The sudden acceleration of effort was matched only by the effort's effectiveness. Decades of anti-drug propaganda directed against hated groups had created a climate of ignorance and fear, allowing the public to accept the notion that all users of any illicit drug, not just members of particular groups using particular drugs, merited suppression. (pgs. 26-27). . .When a student mentioned her parents' marijuana use to a teacher, the teacher informed police, who then removed the child from class and interrogated her without the parents' knowledge. After getting the child to sign a statement that large quantities of marijuana and other drugs were in the house, a drug squad ransacked the residence and uncovered less than an ounce of marijuana and no other controlled substances at all. Legal expenses, on top of medical expenses from the father's cancer treatment, forced the family into bankruptcy.43 When a junior high school student turned in her parents after hearing an anti-drug user talk in 1986, Nancy Reagan declared, "She must have loved her parents a great deal."44 (pg.172)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275950425 [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by defenderoffreeworld on December 10, 2000 at 11:30:49 PT: completely its funny how the law is bent when the people affected have some connection in the government, it makes me sick. however, now holland is not alone anymore, like tom said, and switzerland apparently will soon follow. its all starting to happen, people, right before our eyes. let's enjoy it, for hopefully in a few years, these comments will be more concerned with how to make delicious cannabis meals, or some good hash, rather than with all the attrocities that are taking place. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on December 10, 2000 at 09:47:42 PT Just say NO to Nancy Reagan Nancy isn't senile, and one hopes if she learns a lesson from this, she will be as outspoken as ever.Slightly off-topic, I've been pondering an argument against sentencing which I would give to a judge. Consider - there's a finite number of taxpayers paying to support our nations prison population. If you incarcerate someone, you're not only adding another prisoner to the total bill, but you're reducing the number of taxpayers who foot the bill. Sure, it seems somewhat insignificant just for one person, but when you look at the number of times our society has done this, eventually the burden will be too great. We're already forced to work through May to pay the tax man. If you send me away, you'll have to pay even more. I like this argument, because it doesn't appeal to the judge's common sense and compassion (which is a risk, since I've seen some without either), but to their pocketbook, an argument that affects every taxpayer at the bottom line. Worth a thought anyway... [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Nate H. on December 10, 2000 at 09:14:10 PT Lock Up Your Sons and Daughters Hmmm. One thing that motivated lawmakers in the 1970s to support decrim was the fact their sons and daughters started being busted for the drug.Next time you argue with a prohibitionist, ask them this: if your 18-year-old son or daughter was caught with a couple joints or a gram of coke, do you think jail would straighten them out? If so, how long should they be incarcerated for? [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Thomas on December 10, 2000 at 08:46:12 PT Sweet Justice It is too bad Ron is unlikely to be aware of his grandson's problem (legal problem, that is). I wonder if he would feel the same way about zero tolerance. Apparrantly, "just say no" doesn't work even when you are so close to the source of the advice. By the way, way to go Belgium. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: