This is just anti pot propaganda. LEGALIZE MARIJUANA NOW!!

Wow, these people can't find a single solid reason to keep marijuana illegal so they decide to make someone stretch the truth, in a report, a "paper" so they have ammunition to keep the uneducated thinking marijuana is the devil. Holy reefer madness propaganda of doom. This guy will probably write the paper to get a lesser sentence. See, this is how it works, the government gets these fake statistics to keep or attempt to keep the upper hand on legalization. They do the same thing with the "kids" that are in rehab for marijuana, they offer the kid jail time or rehab.... Well of course they will go with rehab, thus bumping up the phony statistic, saying, "look at all the children in rehab these days for marijuana addiction" F-ing bullcrap. Now they will have this loaded confession of how marijuana was a gateway drug to his problems. Give me a break, learn to own up to your poor choices guy, tell the judge you smoked pot then made your own bad decisions, don't wreck things for the good people who use marijuana, who don't make the poor decisions you did to use other drugs,,,,, HARDER DRUGS!

I am a FREE American, I have constitutional liberties that protect my FREEDOM, if I choose to use marijuana, ITS UP TO ME NOT YOU! Prohibition of marijuana is ILLEGAL as it violates my personal rights. Good laws protect people from other people, bad laws invade ones personal life dictating how one lives and their personal choices, PERSONAL. I urge everyone to resist and oppose these types of laws, fight for our freedom!

Amen to that, brother!!!!!

I think the judge in this case should write a report on what would happen if we woke up tomorrow and marijuana was legal and you could buy it at the liquor store for $25.00 for a pack of twenty. I think the report would be mostly about lost revenue to the local governments and how they would have to downsize the size of their police force. There wouldn't be a lot of crime because everyone would be at home smokin their pack of Skunk-Bud Lights! Not only does it need to be legal, they need to charge a lot less than what our local dealers charge. They can still make a killing on taxes cause it is a damn weed and doesn't take a rocket scientist to grow it. I can't believe that it costs the same if not more to buy legal dope in California. We need to follow the money to see who's getting rich. Now I'm gonna go smoke a fatty and wait for your replies!

District Judge Dave Gamble ordered Matthew Palazzolo to write a report on what the judge called the "nonsensical character" of California's medical marijuana law, the Gardnerville Record-Courier reports.

Talk about abuse of authority. This criminal is forced to write a paper pushing the judge's political/social agenda.

Gamble gave Palazzolo 90 days to complete the paper discussing his realization that marijuana led him to use more powerful narcotics.

Where does the story say anything about any facts that the guy uses "more powerful narcotics." Asserting that the marijuana lead him to use more powerful narcotics is like saying that drinking beer leads you to drink stronger alcohol - one beer leads to a glass of wine which leads to a shot of whiskey.

I'm not going to say anything one way or another on whether pot should be legalized.  My gripe is that the Eighth Amendment of the still legally binding and relevant (despite what many people think) Bill of Rights prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishments.  Although this punishment is not cruel it is, as the report states in the first sentence, unusual.  And being an unusual punishment it is unconstitutional.