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One of our biggest problems in this country is the prison population. What do we do with them? How do we afford them? How do we deal with their absence in society?
Maybe we ought to look at what we have so many people in jail for. When a pot grower has to spend a mandatory sentence longer than a rapist or even murderer, I don't think it adds up.
The War on Drugs is a war on ourselves.
Legalize pot and you will win the biggest victory in the war on drugs yet. Pot is the biggest gateway to 'hard' drugs. Why? Because it is illegal and unregulated, so they can put all kinds of crap in it. Pot absorbs as majority of drug enforcement costs and efforts. Legalize it, and you can regulate it, stop it from being a gateway, and turn those resources over to battling those 'hard' drugs that more folks agree are actually in need of being stopped.
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"Don't tell me we're so blind we cannot see that this is my land! I can't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
And this is your land, you can't close your eyes to this hypocracy.
Yes this is my land, I won't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
'Cause this is our land, we can't close our eyes to the things we don't wanna see."
- DTH
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