Posted on 02/25/2017 6:24:37 AM PST by GonzoII
Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a decision to overturn a memo to end the use of private prisons, the Huffington Post reports.
About ten years ago, when the prison population was exploding, the Federal Bureau of Prisons sought out private companies to build and operate prisons. In 2013, the prison population reached its highest ever at 220,000 inmates. But, by 2016, the population began to decline for the first time in over thirty years accounting for only 195,000 inmates. This had to do with changes in how inmates are sentenced. As a result, the need for private prisons was reconsidered.
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Again, if you think of the problems from marijuana users, is it truly worth it to spend $100 billion a year to just keep treading water? Way too much money has already been spent with *nothing* to show for it.
Don’t throw good money after bad, and do not reinforce defeat.
I volunteer to take all the female prisoners between 18-25 and rated above a 7 on the hotness scale.
So are Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Carl Sagan.
While I don’t care for their politics, they all regularly smoked marijuana.
I should also mention that the “medical problems” from at least 40 years of heavy marijuana smoking have not materialized. Marijuana actually includes ingredients that *prevent* the growth of some cancers. Some types have been proven to normalize pressure in the eyeballs, significantly slowing the onset of some types of blindness.
By now if it was medically bad, you would expect widespread emphysema, cancer, cardio problems, etc., etc., all attributable to marijuana use. And they have not happened.
So how long does it take? If you are a regular marijuana smoker for 75 years will it make you sick?
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