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Sen. James Sensenbrenner (Rep., Wisc.) has introduced H.R. 1528, a bill that would mandate a ten-year minimum sentence if you smoke pot within 500 feet of a child. And that's just the beginning of its badness. If you see someone using drugs anywhere near a child, you must tell the cops within 24 hours or go to jail for 2-10 years...unless you're the parent of the child so wickedly exposed to someone smoking a joint, in which case you're sent away for 3-20.

Yeah, forcing people to become informants. That's what's made this country great.

The bill has been referred "to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman." I hope that means that it's died of shame.

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 2, 2005 05:45 AM