These are a few examples of jury nullification at its best. For the most part, it is primarily their people who are being locked up. Mr. Clinton recently angered many people in Mexico - by suggesting that Mexico is primarily responsible for the continued importation of illegal drugs into the United States. But thoughtful Mexicans and Americans know, if Americans did not use illegal drugs, no other country could possibly export drugs to the United States. Politicians like simple answers for complex questions.
More stupid laws are probably on the way.
Jury nullification is the common law right of the People. If juries decide that they no longer want to see people being sent to prison for cannabis possession, so be it. The General Assembly and Congress are certainly not having much success with their ways of solving our drug problem. Maybe it takes the People to show the way. Jury nullification is not sign that the sky is falling, as some would have us believe.