That's right spend more of my tax dollars arresting folk for MJ while first time rapists get 12 months, first time assaults get 14, and first time drug offenses 7 years. These are national averages but we follow. It's amazing we continue as a species.

Bayonne cops charge Jersey City woman with pot possession, Light Rail fare evasion

By Sarah Rahman/The Jersey Journal
January 19, 2010, 8:36PM

Bayonne police charged a Jersey City woman with possessing suspected marijuana after she failed to show a valid ticket at the 22nd Street Light Rail Station on Saturday, officials said.
At 12:31 a.m., officers asked Zekiller Brown, 30, of Wilkinson Avenue, to produce a valid rail ticket and she didn't have one, Police Lt. Janine Foy said.

Cops found that Brown had an outstanding warrant from Jersey City in the amount of $250, police said.
She was arrested and when cops searched her they found three bags of suspected marijuana, police said.
Brown was charged with theft of services and marijuana possession and was sent to the Hudson County jail.