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To: DennisR; CORedneck
I live in Washington State and am wondering why having more pot available to people is a good thing?

Those in your government don’t care whether there is more pot or not. There priorities are first raising revenue by taxing pot smokers and second reducing the number of non-violent offenders in their jails.

Not a pot smoker myself but I can understand the point. Jailing pot smokers makes little sense unless they are driving under the influence.

But somebody that wants to sit at home listening to Pink Floyd while eating pizza and smoking pot does not present a danger to the public worthy of imprisonment.

If they can reduce taxation on booze by taxing pot and keep more violent criminals in jail longer by not sending pot smokers to jail they got my vote.

46 posted on 11/21/2012 4:47:31 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac; DennisR
A total 12,408,899 people were arrested last year — with one marijuana-related arrest every 42 seconds, according to analysis of FBI statistics released last week. The No. 1 arrest charge in the U.S. was drug abuse violations. More than 81 percent of the 1,531,251 arrests stemmed from possession, while the remainder were for sales and manufacturing.

I don't want to pay for this.

The war on drugs has been a dismal failure by any measure.

People are smoking it now - better to have the money for it come to the state coffers than to drug cartels in Mexico where it funds violence.

And finally it's a stand up vote for states rights.

48 posted on 11/21/2012 8:59:19 PM PST by MarMema (eh.)
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