Posted on 10/26/2010 6:28:08 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
Law enforcement agencies today spend many billions of taxpayer dollars annually trying to enforce this unenforceable prohibition. The roughly 750,000 arrests they make each year for possession of small amounts of marijuana represent more than 40% of all drug arrests.
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. It also would reduce the crime, violence and corruption associated with drug markets, and the violations of civil liberties and human rights that occur when large numbers of otherwise law-abiding citizens are subject to arrest. Police could focus on serious crime instead.
The racial inequities that are part and parcel of marijuana enforcement policies cannot be ignored. African-Americans are no more likely than other Americans to use marijuana but they are three, five or even 10 times more likely—depending on the city—to be arrested for possessing marijuana. I agree with Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP, when she says that being caught up in the criminal justice system does more harm to young people than marijuana itself. Giving millions of young Americans a permanent drug arrest record that may follow them for life serves no one's interests.
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I don’t care what George Soros is for. I want his money confiscated. He should be arrested for a wide variety of crimes against the USA and put in a concrete cell for the rest of his life- right next to all the people who have tried to subvert our government.
I wouldn’t mind seeing him picked up for war crimes. How many Jewish families who were hiding did he turn in? (and claim in an interview he had no guilt).
I happen to think that the puppet masters are into drugs for at least 2 big reasons . . .
the money . . . partially to fund their plush bunkers and the purported deeply buried tube trains between them. . . .
and
to identify more ‘useless eaters’ to exterminate to get the population down to 200 million that the critters have convinced them is necessary to save the human race and the planet.
Wow- I actually agree with him on some thing
As a FORMER (20 years ago) smoker I can say from experience pot is less harmful the Alcohol
And as a former Police Officer in the Air Force and Reserves nd with many State and Local Police department friends I can say they mostly agree- they have never had to break up a domestic with pot-heads
Make it legal, make driving or operating machinery while ‘intoxecated” a big crime
The mosney we waste with police fighting this and the illegal drug money going to Mexico is just ridiculous
Add “control” to that and you are pretty much spot on.
Some folks are just fine with selling their souls to George Soros.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2613903/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1575157/posts
That’s it..drug the population so they are so stoned stupid that they will just vote for democRATS.
Not a good plan.
True. Forgot about that one.
Thanks for your kind reply.
As far as pot...we really need to legalize another vice. Yeah, that's the ticket. Prostitution is probably next.
I’ll vote to legalize if the dopers will vote to euthanize Soros.
Eat The Rich! Down with the Reactionary Enemies of The People! The wealth of the Nation belongs to the Comrades, not to the Capitalist Pigs!
I agree with Soros on this one topic
Although agreeing with that asshat makes me ill
Well, it’s good they published this. We already know Soros is a monster. Big surprise he’d be in favor of dope.
I agree with Soros on this one topic
Although agreeing with that asshat makes me ill
“Here is some Soma. Everything is OK. Don’t pay any attention to the elephant in the corner.”
The very fact that George Soros wants marijuana legalized gives me sober pause (pun intended).
I was around in the late 1970s, when marijuana smoking was ubiquitous, but it’s also true that it’s not good for you. I’ve seen lots of years wasted, opportunities lost, and potential squandered from both myself and others around me getting high. It is something that I deeply regret.
Part of me understands that legal weed would be the same as legal beer or legal wine or legal liquor - in other words, most people would probably handle it fine, with a significant minority in the ditch, or worse. Sure, you might argue that marijuana itself won’t kill you directly, like chugging vodka would, but the affects of the drug can certainly impair judgment, reaction time, and inhibitions, just like liquor, which means that smoking dope can kill you. You’ll just die with your liver intact.
On the other hand, I compare those wasted years and see George Soros eager to impose that on an entire society. That, in itself, creeps me out.
How about: 'Enforce Election Laws', 'RICO Statutes', Election tampering', bribery, fraud, market manipulation, and 'insider trading violations'?
I believe he is a dual citizen of Hungary and the US.
..and here is all you really need to know about his past and his feelings about it:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/george-soros-on-helping-the-nazis-during-the-holocaust
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