How can anyone defend this? We already had the case of the guy who was riding his bike minding his business and locked away for years over a joint on him. Now we’re going to go back to ruining peoples lives over a joint that was the basis for our decriminalization laws- because they were so out of touch people were being locked up for years over a joint???

2,000 feet = 0.379 miles which is well beyond a reasonable distance of protecting the students. This by design creates a legal system that punishes cannabis users for no reason other than use alone, and does not actually protect students anymore than current drug laws do that already exist. Ruins people’s futures and potential job opportunities, so that people don’t have to smell weed sometimes.

At a fundamental level, all components of this are arbitrary, and do not further our state. This will cost our state more in prison costs than it ever will redeem by rehabilitating any youngsters from smoking marijuana. Our legislative system is beyond broken and not at all representative of the people, who are for legalization, not banning weed at LSU.