A North Carolina man, a veteran with no criminal record, went to prison on Wednesday after getting caught driving a U-Haul across Nebraska with more than a half-ton of marijuana and four guns inside.
John Silsby, 42, wanted the judge to know he had no idea it was illegal, a statement Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson said she simply didn’t believe.
“Whether marijuana is legal or not, there is no state in this country where you can transport, as a private person, 1,200 pounds of it legally,” she said…