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Cops made 545,602 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2019
Zuri Davis ^ | Feb 9 | Zuri Davis

Posted on 02/09/2021 7:38:56 AM PST by RandFan

NORML:

According to the most recent national data, police made 545,602 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2019.

That is 1,494 people a day.

That is 62 people an hour.

That is more than a person minute.

This is not justice. This is not freedom. This should not be normal.

Zuri Davis:

Lives are being ruined forever over a plant that is safer to consume than legal alcohol. A criminal record is a life sentence. 545,602 people will now struggle to find jobs, a place to live, and a business loan. They can’t vote or buy a gun for self-defense.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; nannystate; pot; reefermadness; weed; wod
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To: caseinpoint

I grow stinging nettle. I certainly hope it’s not that poisonous. I understand it can be made into a tea but I’ve never tried. No hemlock around here AFAIK.


21 posted on 02/09/2021 7:51:15 AM PST by BipolarBob (It's all fun and games until Mrs. Bipolar catches me posting on Free Republic without permission.)
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To: NobleFree; dainbramaged; TheStickman

Thank You Noble Free.


22 posted on 02/09/2021 7:51:31 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: EvilCapitalist
"Of those arrested for cannabis-related activities, some 92 percent (500,395) were arrested for marijuana possession offenses only."
23 posted on 02/09/2021 7:52:07 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: BipolarBob

He made poison ivy too. Just because He created a plant doesn’t mean we should smoke it.


24 posted on 02/09/2021 7:55:50 AM PST by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Persevero

In a Cheech and Chong society anything goes here hold my joint watch this.


25 posted on 02/09/2021 7:59:43 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: NobleFree

So? Lots of things are illegal that maybe shouldn’t be but they are.


26 posted on 02/09/2021 8:00:02 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Persevero

What about edibles? :P

I have never actually had edible pot. I have no idea what it’s like but as I said previously I’m not much a fan of being “stoned”.


27 posted on 02/09/2021 8:00:50 AM PST by RandFan
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To: NobleFree

Pot isn’t exactly the hill to die on. Pick a better battle. Pot smokers are usually always morons that are too stupid to not smoke pot.


28 posted on 02/09/2021 8:01:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Persevero

Nobody is advocating the smoking of it or its prohibition. Your post makes no sense.


29 posted on 02/09/2021 8:03:24 AM PST by BipolarBob (It's all fun and games until Mrs. Bipolar catches me posting on Free Republic without permission.)
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To: CodeToad
Pot isn’t exactly the hill to die on.

Since the battle is going the legalizers' way, with more states legalizing every election cycle - including red states Alaska, Montana, and South Dakota - your advice is better directed at the nanny-statist Reefer Madness bitter-enders. Individual liberty is good policy and good politics.

30 posted on 02/09/2021 8:04:33 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: KC_Lion

Thanks for the ping.

Cannabis should be legal to have, to grow & to share among adults, imo.


31 posted on 02/09/2021 8:05:18 AM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: CodeToad
So? Lots of things are illegal that maybe shouldn’t be but they are.

So - in this Land of the Free, let's reverse those bad laws.

32 posted on 02/09/2021 8:05:55 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

Pot isn’t exactly the hill to die on.


The dinner roll

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2279979/posts


33 posted on 02/09/2021 8:07:40 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: NobleFree

This isn’t about liberty, this is about wanting to smoke pot.

The dumbing down of America continues. Pot is a liberal desire, as with homosexuality, child molestation, abortion, etc.


34 posted on 02/09/2021 8:12:29 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad
This isn’t about liberty, this is about wanting to smoke pot.

That's a liberal style of argument, as in: RKBA isn’t about liberty, it's about wanting to shoot people.

Pot is a liberal desire

Nonsense - not a few conservatives, including some FReepers, use marijuana.

35 posted on 02/09/2021 8:19:23 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: RandFan

Yeah man. You know man that weed is a total bennie man. And you know man that I was gonna give more reasons man to legalize it man. But I forgot what they were man.


36 posted on 02/09/2021 8:23:10 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Seruzawa
I was gonna give more reasons man to legalize it

Here are two reasons:


37 posted on 02/09/2021 8:28:01 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: napscoordinator

“But it seems stupid to arrest people on this.”

Back before they decided to make the stuff legal, (and profitable along with taxable), there was only one rule to break. Now that they have introduced this hallucinogen they complicated its freeing with rules to use it because of the inherent dangers of its use. So they didn’t do anyone a favor by allowing the public to play with it. It changes from a recreation to a danger. And the species of man currently has proven their ingenuity to push the laws established for everyone’s protection just to see if they can get away with it.

Hence, to keep people with little of no intelligence from harming others, they have to enforce those laws that were pointed at it. Otherwise, people are going to die.

wy69


38 posted on 02/09/2021 8:29:14 AM PST by whitney69
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To: whitney69
to keep people with little of no intelligence from harming others, they have to enforce those laws

So we should enact laws banning the inebriating drug alcohol as well - right?

39 posted on 02/09/2021 8:31:46 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: RandFan
"545,602 people will now struggle to find jobs, a place to live, and a business loan. They can’t vote or buy a gun for self-defense."

While I don't think pot should be illegal for personal use, the above sentence is 100% false.

40 posted on 02/09/2021 8:31:49 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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