Lets get specific:
In 2012 nearly half (48.3%) of all drug arrests were for marijuana — a total of 749,825.
Now go and Google the lethal dose for marijuana vs alcohol. Do you think a father should be imprisoned for consuming a beer at his backyard summer BBQ? A drug that does kill people merely from consumption alone.
Our country is arresting and jailing a huge number of people over this. Think about it. 750k cases all involving tens of thousands of lawyers, courts, cops, jails, judges... over what?
Billions of dollars are spent on this each year. Why?
Over a drug that can’t kill a person?
For the record even if marijuana was legal I wouldn’t do it. But my neighbor having the freedom to consume it would bother me about as much as a neighbor who smoked nicotine.
As a conservative I want to see less jails, less prisoners and families intact. I want to see people (as flawed as they might be) free to chose both good and bad.
Lets start looking less like China and more like America. A prison population like we have today isn’t a sign that America is free and healthy. It’s a sign that something is very wrong here.
i am more worried about the country jailing me, or trying to, because i won’t go along with them turning it into the ussa.
since when does a drug have to kill someone to be banned?
a teaspoon of nicotine can kill you.
for te pot users it’s not about tem dying, as muchg as them driving or doing stupid things while high, killing other people. colorado has arrested large numbersof pot users high while driving since they legalized it.
you want to die as the result of a drunk or a person high on drugs? sounds like you’d be just fine with it.
Tens of thousands of lawyers, courts, cops, jails, judges have built careers around this and they all get paid.
It’s big business.