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Buttigieg: No Jail Time for Possession of Any Drug — Including Meth, Cocaine
brietbart.com ^ | 12/26/2019 | pam key

Posted on 12/26/2019 2:15:16 PM PST by rktman

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To: NobleFree
Okay. I understand what you're saying but it sounds like a danged serious quagmire. Thank you but I hope you can see how perplexing this is.

Up here in Humboldt county the decriminalization is so bad old Newsom pulled agents off the border to bust illegal grows. It's way worse than ever. I honestly could not imagine what would happen with old Buttboy's idea.

81 posted on 12/26/2019 3:57:11 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: humblegunner
who have grown up with the incarnation

Must be the kind of flower the faggies put in their drinks at the fern bar.

82 posted on 12/26/2019 4:03:58 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: KC Burke

Awesome plan huh?


83 posted on 12/26/2019 4:08:00 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

No jail, but each criminal arrested must do a “time out” at butt-giggity’s home before they’re pardoned.


84 posted on 12/26/2019 4:13:37 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: rktman

There are two reasons for possessing drugs. (Three if you include legitimate research). Either you intend to use them, or give them to a loved one, or you intend to sell them for a profit.

How are these two reasons ascertained?


85 posted on 12/26/2019 4:27:21 PM PST by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No he is not. A libertarian would simply repeal the laws that criminalize drug usage and remove government control from drugs. What Buttigieg is recommending is much different.


86 posted on 12/26/2019 4:36:20 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: rktman

You sir are an idiot that I am sure has never had to deal with some idiot on meth!


87 posted on 12/26/2019 4:38:49 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: NobleFree

It’s the amount of drugs, the number of different types of drugs (each is it’s own charge) plus whatever applicable enhancements. For the guy I had in mind, they raided his house, tons of kids around, nearby a park, drugs were in large amounts. That gets him for selling drugs in a drug free zone, enhancing third degree and second degree up a notch, respectively. Also habitual felony offender, as he had a bunch of felonies for violent acts, evading arrest, etc., but was constantly out on the street anyway.

This is Harris County though, which has Houston. Mayor Turner land.


88 posted on 12/26/2019 4:42:15 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: rktman
Great idea! Just sell 'em in the supermarkets over the counter. (If the customers get high and step in the human excrement in the aisles, so what?) Get the kids hooked. Let's all get hooked. Then we don't have to worry about anything!

What? Howzat? Some other nation will conquer us and enslave us and our children? So what???

Anyway slavery was abolished back in the ...uh...a long time ago... It's illegal. They can't do that.

89 posted on 12/26/2019 4:44:05 PM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: rktman

There are no drug users without drug cartels and drug dealers and drug smugglers and drug enforcers


90 posted on 12/26/2019 4:47:41 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Ezekiel

Ah, now I get it!


91 posted on 12/26/2019 4:48:42 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
Huh? 😵. Only mrs. rktman gets to call me that.😁
92 posted on 12/26/2019 5:06:16 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Magic Fingers

“What was the parent incarnated as?”

Rabid drug users.

This guy is nuts. Lack of enforcement for drug
possession will only encourage greater use.
70,000 per year die in the US on average from
drug overdose. Expect that number to increase
under this idiots’ policies.


93 posted on 12/26/2019 6:48:36 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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Even for dealers with $1 mil in drugs in the trunk of their car ???


94 posted on 12/26/2019 10:55:37 PM PST by elbook
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If he instead stated that an end-user caught in minor possession was “incarcerated” for several years in a treatment and recovery facility with no release until proven healed and recovered, instead of straight up prison, that would make sense.


95 posted on 12/27/2019 6:15:02 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Lean-Right
Lack of enforcement for drug possession will only encourage greater use.

Nonsense. Is the illegality of heroin or meth YOUR primary reason for not using them? It's way down on my list.

96 posted on 12/27/2019 8:23:07 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Out and out legalization isn't going to work. It will make things even worse.

Why? Leaglization of the mind-altering addictive drug alcohol has proved to work much better than banning it.

I do have some thoughts on what I believe is a better approach, but since they would never be put into practice, it's pointless to talk about them.

I'd like to hear them. :)

97 posted on 12/27/2019 8:26:48 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: DoughtyOne; wastedyears
how has that “war on drugs” been working out for this country? How many billions of dollars and lives wasted?

No one in our family died. We stayed away from drugs for the most part, and somehow did just fine in life.

OK, so you care only about how you and your family have been affected. How much of your money and your family's was taken by the government and spent on protecting the cartels' monopoly in the drug market?

98 posted on 12/27/2019 8:30:27 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

Isn’t that a person’s base thinking in strenuous times? My family first, everything else a distant second? Isn’t that how we got the first Thanksgiving? Each family farmed for itself and saved themselves from starvation?


99 posted on 12/27/2019 9:27:53 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears
Family first, fine - but it's shortsighted at best to ignore, say, others being robbed by addicts looking to pay the drug-war-inflated price for their drugs just because it hasn't happened to you or your family. (Yet.)
100 posted on 12/27/2019 9:38:34 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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