How much time will the seditious rioters receive in jail? Compared to someone who smokes' pot?

[captain queeg]

How many people are in prison right now for marijuana?

[DonCoquixote]

1. well

Trump did add that extra 30 years for damaging federal property..granted that was meant to scare BLM, but no reason they cannot be hoisted on their own petard.

[Marcuse]

2. They could be charged with the felony murders of the police officer and the female terrorist.

Although the police who let them into the Capitol could make it hard for an unlawful entry charge to stick wrt some terrorists.

[Earthshine2]

3. Apparently, some of the seditious rioters broke into offices and ...

without any other plan of action, proceeded to hang out and smoke weed.

This was reported on CNN.

[RockRaven]

4. Someone posted a list of six felonies that were being committed on camera...

I think the worst one, by statute, was something like up to 20 years for assaulting police officers. I suspect that prosecutors and judges will not be lenient on those counts. Also, anyone who stole laptops or documents will probably also have the book thrown at them because of the national security angle, but I don't know what the numbers are like for those crimes.

But federal sentencing has a weird point system with lots of factors that influence what the prosecutors ask for. And of course the judge has a lot of leeway in many cases.

[KentuckyWoman]

5. The punishment for weed varies

A black man in Mississippi will get 30 years for the residue of weed in the bottom of the bag.

A white man threatening the vice president is more likely to get a medal than to see a jail.

Perhaps a minor exaggeration.

[Chainfire]

6. The Federal Statutes provide for 20 years or an unspecified fine, or both for sedition.