Help! Save us from the stoners!
The government sure is spending a boatload of money trying to protect us from lazy forgetful people who have the munchies.
The study released yesterday by the Sentencing Project found that arrests for marijuana account for nearly all of the increase in drug arrests seen during the 1990s. The report also found that one in four people in state prisons for marijuana offenses can be classified as a "low-level offender," and it estimated that $4 billion a year is spent on arresting and prosecuting marijuana crimes.
How's about focusing on crimes that actually have victims. Now there's a good use of our tax dollars
Now if I could just remember where I put that bag of Doritos....
The study released yesterday by the Sentencing Project found that arrests for marijuana account for nearly all of the increase in drug arrests seen during the 1990s. The report also found that one in four people in state prisons for marijuana offenses can be classified as a "low-level offender," and it estimated that $4 billion a year is spent on arresting and prosecuting marijuana crimes.
How's about focusing on crimes that actually have victims. Now there's a good use of our tax dollars
Now if I could just remember where I put that bag of Doritos....
posted by cookie christine @ 5/04/2005
3 Comments:
At May 04, 2005,
Anonymous said…
Cookie, that is pathetic! You hide the stash, not the Doritos!
But what you talkin' 'bout, Willis? Prohibition worked so damn well, increasing crime, driving up prices, increasing comsumption, why would we hesitate to use it as a model for resticting the use of other recreational chemicals?
Why would we dream of collapsing the the drug cartels by taking the profit motive out of drug sales? Why would we start treating drug usage (insofar as it might need treating at all) as a public health issue, rather than a criminal justice issue? And what would Wackenhut and CCA do for a living if the prison populations were significantly reduced?
Nope, we really need to take some of the brightest, most creative people out of society, create impoverished single parent families, and encourage the violence in our country. So get real, huh?
At May 04, 2005,
Isaac Carmichael said…
Only users lose drugs.
At May 04, 2005,
Anonymous said…
The number prosecuted includes those who are using it for medical reasons. Nothing like jailing the sick and dying to make me a believer in compassionate conservatism.
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