Mom properly jailed for letting baby smoke dope

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September 22, 2006 at 9:35 pm

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Raj

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Montana mother who allowed her 18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
Jessica Durham was photographed allowing her toddler Michala to suck from a marijuana water pipe, also known as a bong, in 2004 by a friend upset about the activity.
“Ms. Durham allegedly remarked that smoking improved Michala’s appetite and left Michala lethargic and mellow – a manner she found consistent with her own experience smoking marijuana,” Judge Louis Pollak of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in summarising the case.
In 2005, a lower court sentenced Durham to five years in prison for unlawful marijuana distribution. She appealed both the conviction and the sentence.

In its ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld the conviction but said the sentence exceeded the applicable federal law which calls for punishment of no more than two years in prison.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-22T200802Z_01_N22180603_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-CRIME-MARIJUANA-MOM.XML

i find this disturbing [that a toddler would be allowed to smoke that is]; anyone else agree/disagree with me?
September 22, 2006 at 9:49 pm

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Angel

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I find it very disturbing..:you_crazy :you_crazy :you_crazy
September 22, 2006 at 10:34 pm

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globalloon

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it’s just wrong

but so is depriving her daughter of a mother

without more information it’s impossible to make an assessment, but on the face of it, after intervention from social services, the child could have been placed with another family (or ideally family member) with access to her mother

my on daughter is about the same age

one day she will obviously come to know about drugs, but i will do everything i can to make sure she has all the information… so that she can make a choice as an adult
September 22, 2006 at 10:36 pm

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Raj

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i dont agree with jailing the mother either glo but i cant imagine why a mother would allow a child that young to smoke a bong?

its not like the kid is capable of making an informed choice based on the risks:hopeless:
September 22, 2006 at 10:40 pm

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globalloon

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raj wrote:

i dont agree with jailing the mother either glo but i cant imagine why a mother would allow a child that young to smoke a bong?

its not like the kid is capable of making an informed choice based on the risks:hopeless:

yeah it’s totally wrong of the mother. as to why… she’s got some serious emotional problems – without any real information it’s not worth trying to guess
September 23, 2006 at 5:35 pm

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Meltown

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its jus as bad all the hippy mums givin their toddlers NOS, drugs + developmental stages of life dnt mix
September 23, 2006 at 6:35 pm

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missMushed

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some people do surprise me! I would be very wary of even having drugs in the house, incase they were accidently taken, or even incase i was arreated, and risked being a mother to my child! let alone give them to them at that age, if any age! If they choose to do drugs, its going to be down to them, and not from me introducing them to them, and if thats the case then i will educate them as much as possible so they are safe.
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