I wonder how many of the released drug dealers were white.
Even people that are in jail for ‘minor drug crimes’ usually pleaded down much more serious crimes. The ones that do get caught for petty possession only get jailed for other reasons, like outstanding warrants, multiple arrests, etc.
...but according to rhetoric from the left, they’re could be just you or me getting caught with a joint. That’s why people have to ALWAYS question the real motives of the left.
“In the midst of a horrific heroin epidemic, as the death rate from opiate overdose has quadrupled, the response of the president is to turn loose the profiteers and purveyors of this plague.”
3 of the 61 were for heroin.
Drug dealers shouldn’t have ever existed in the first place
In a truly free society, adults should be able to buy whatever they want at the corner store and posses whatever they like. IF they actually harm someone with the things they buy, THEN they should be prosecuted for that crime.
Laws against possession/sale of various inanimate objects have led us down this rabbit hole of nanny-statism and “pre-crime”. Not to mention all the insane laws protecting people from themselves.
ENOUGH NANNYS!! One used to be able to go into town and buy a brick of heroin, dynamite and uranium without questions. One used to be able to fire machine guns and cannons as long as they didn’t harm another.
Now, it will soon be a crime to think negative thoughts about the state (or even yourself)...
Sure there were fools that got addicted or blew things up. But is this supposedly “safer” society enforced by corrupt police guns better?
Hypothetical situation:
Friends since elementary school, two people in their late-50s get together and one has a small amount of weed to trade for some bike or car parts...They work it out in the privacy of one’s home and seal the deal with a beer and a doob...
...That’s supposed to be a “violent drug crime”?
This sounds pretty close to blaming guns for crimes committed with guns. Certainly the left uses the same rationale.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NON-VIOLENT DRUG ENFORCEMENT.
AND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NON-VIOLENT ALLCAPS.
If you sell drugs, you have blood on your hands.
Have you told that to Oliver North yet?? Or has everyone forgot about the Sandinistas and the Iran-Contra affair?
I saw that. Whatever. This country is a banana republic..
Make smuggling drugs into this country a capital offense. Death penalty. That would be a good start. If smugglers knew it was a certainty.....oh yeah, also a great big reward for information leading to their arrest.
Executing drug dealers would greatly diminish the use of illegal drugs; they’d be much harder to get.