Don’t Sell Pot in Red-State South Carolina
July 14, 2015
You might spend weeks in a coma and be left paralyzed after police in militarized gear break down the door of your apartment and shoot you nine times. That is what happened to a young man in South Carolina. His crime? Selling a plant the government didn’t approve of. Police found $970 in his pocket and 8 ounces of pot in his apartment.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

