Punishing people for what? Smoking pot? For Gods sake, tell me why it is marijuana should be illegal? And please spare me the ‘’gate-way drug’’ nonsense.
I have no problem with pot smoking at all. However, the best thing for society is that people are responsible for their actions. A number of those who be smokin the spleefs, be parasitic, even criminal. How we deal with aberrant behavior, all the way to criminality, needs to be updated. The prison system is a huge union scam and the prisoners do better than most of the working poor. When they foul their cells, someone cleans it for them.
The entire legal/penal system needs to be modernized, and the first step, IMHO, is to stop electing “Officers of the Trough, I mean Court” to be our leaders.