Mother goes to jail for letting friend blow pot smoke into her child's face.

She is now going to spend the next 10 years in prison. 10 years. Let that sink in. For watching a friend blow a puff of a relatively harmless substance towards her child ( I was not able to view the video, so let me know if I have it wrong). 10 years of freaking prison.

Had her friend been wielding a holy book and a scalpel - removing bits of the kid's penis, this would be a cause for celebration. Had her friend been giving the child cough syrup, or benedril, or baby asprin (all having a greater potential for harm), this would have been not that big of a deal. Unfortunately this is not the case.

She will be spending the next 10 years in prison. Not for dosing her child, but for watching somebody do something to her child that cannot be demonstrated as significantly harmful. Obviously it is not the best thing to do to a child, but 10 years... come on!

Land of the free.

Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh.

Prison and drug use do not go together in any way.