I think I need to recalibrate my sarcasm detector.
47 billion a year wasted on mostly people caught with possesion of pot. A weed that can grow on the side of the road.
When are we going to end this madness?
When are we going to end this madness?
Unfortunately "terror" wasn't quite good enough to replace "drugs" apparently.jonnykill wrote:
47 billion a year wasted on mostly people caught with possesion of pot. A weed that can grow on the side of the road.
When are we going to end this madness?
OPs with links only make me sad.
i will save us all a bunch of pages of back and forth bullshit, and just tell you what the deal is;
arresting drug users (of any kind) is a business in this country right now. the laws wont change, and it wont stop anytime soon.
dont like it?
dont do/sell dope.
simple as.
if you get arrested, first you pay the municipality you were arrested in, whatever amount of money they see fit for your crime. then if you go to prison, you help provide employment for everyone from guards and construction contractors, to nurses and teachers.
there.
thats it.
thats why it wont change, thats why we wont see any sort of legalization of marijuana in our lifetimes.
if you dont like it, go hang out with the NORML cats, and be all; "dude, fuckin gnarly, whoa!...lets go stand in front of the capitol and use drugs to make our point...like, fuckin gnarly, rad!"
i will save us all a bunch of pages of back and forth bullshit, and just tell you what the deal is;
arresting drug users (of any kind) is a business in this country right now. the laws wont change, and it wont stop anytime soon.
dont like it?
dont do/sell dope.
simple as.
if you get arrested, first you pay the municipality you were arrested in, whatever amount of money they see fit for your crime. then if you go to prison, you help provide employment for everyone from guards and construction contractors, to nurses and teachers.
there.
thats it.
thats why it wont change, thats why we wont see any sort of legalization of marijuana in our lifetimes.
if you dont like it, go hang out with the NORML cats, and be all; "dude, fuckin gnarly, whoa!...lets go stand in front of the capitol and use drugs to make our point...like, fuckin gnarly, rad!"
It's really not about it being a business - I honestly don't think police commissioners and/or people responsible for the budget of police forces are saying, "We need more money! Bust pot smokers." I think what it is is a changing of the guard so to speak, where for the last 50 or so years there has been a societal moral shift from "pot is bad" to "pot really isn't as bad as we thought". On one hand you have people still trying to control what other people do alone in their spare time (and this is becoming more outdated as time moves forward), on the other you have people who grew up in the '60s and '70s and don't really care about pot smokers.
I got pulled over last week while smoking pot and the here is what the cop said to me: "We don't care about pot, we want meth." Now, that didn't stop him from tearing my car apart looking for his non-existent meth, but it shows to me a real change in mentality from a law enforcement perspective. 10 years ago I would have driven off with a marijuana citation in my pocket. Yes, it is a personal anecdote that does not universally show a change in mentality, but I could provide quotes from many people close to the "drug war" like former US drug czars essentially echoing the same sentiment - it would just require more work on my part and I'm at work (working hard, har har).
I got pulled over last week while smoking pot and the here is what the cop said to me: "We don't care about pot, we want meth." Now, that didn't stop him from tearing my car apart looking for his non-existent meth, but it shows to me a real change in mentality from a law enforcement perspective. 10 years ago I would have driven off with a marijuana citation in my pocket. Yes, it is a personal anecdote that does not universally show a change in mentality, but I could provide quotes from many people close to the "drug war" like former US drug czars essentially echoing the same sentiment - it would just require more work on my part and I'm at work (working hard, har har).
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