25 million Americans have illegally smoked pot in the past year, and 15 million in the past month. A few hopeful posters here to the contrary, we don't (yet) have the national mentality to actually prosecute this and send all these people to prison.
So we continue to do what's been failing for decades. The few traffickers we catch go to prison, a few hundred thousand particularly unlucky or stupid users who get caught usually get off with community service and court costs, and the other 24.5 million dopers break the law and discover that nothing happens.
This is the death of our foundational laws and standards. Not lack of law, but surfeit of law such that people learn empirically that the law is BS.
So true. The only thing that can be done is to bust the traffickers, and make their wares as expensive as possible.
It at least gives kids a chance to get through school without smoking too much of it, as long as parents don't give them too much allowance.
Could be once in the last year. What kind of police state would we have to have to catch one person smoking one joint once a year? Certainly you're not calling for that? Yet if we aren't arresting those 25 million Americans the law is BS?
Anyways, smoking pot is not illegal -- only possession, growing, and distribution. Since we're not breaking down doors doing random searches for marijuana, the 750,000 arrested each year are those who were dealing or carrying drugs in public.
We only arrest a very small fraction of people who break the speed limit, yet you wouldn't suggest that speed limits are BS. Or would you?