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Would marijuana legalization prevent jail/prison overcrowding?
I think it would cause the majority of the pot smokers don't go out and commit other crimes against people to support their habits unlike most of the other drug users and most of the pot smokers are hard working and decent people.
Marijuana is a drug whether you want to classify it as such or not.
When people become addicted (physically or psychologically) to a drug they do stupid things regardless of the drug.
Honestly, I haven't met to many pot smokers that are "hard working people". Most have been losers, after all its an illegal substance so it takes a certain sort of person to use it consistently instead of say drinking alcohol.
Marijuana is a drug whether you want to classify it as such or not.
When people become addicted (physically or psychologically) to a drug they do stupid things regardless of the drug.
Honestly, I haven't met to many pot smokers that are "hard working people". Most have been losers, after all its an illegal substance so it takes a certain sort of person to use it consistently instead of say drinking alcohol.
Answer the question or go back to watching Fox News.
To the OP: Yes, it would. There are so many reasons to legalize marijuana its ridiculous. The only reason it doesn't happen is because of government propaganda, and the fact that all our politicians are in the pockets of pharmaceutical industries. However, marijuana will be federally legalized in the next 10 years.
Answer the question or go back to watching Fox News.
What does any of this have to do with Fox News? The answer to the question was tacit in my response above. I do not think there are many people in jail "just for marijuana", the people that currently use and sell marijuana are in some sense "criminal minded".
People that suggest that the legalization of marijuana would some how free up massive jail space appear to be under the impression that the jails are filled with kids that were caught smoking some pot behind the local grocery store. In most areas you do not get put in jail for minor violations like this, hence a lot of the people that are in jail for marijuana would more than likely be in jail regardless.
Marijuna should be legalized. I've seen a hundred debates about this topic. And the side that says weed should be illegal never seems to win the debate.
When I lived in Madison County, Florida, about half the black jail population (and none of the white jail population) were serving time for driving cars with registration or licensing irregularities. Jail space being occu;ied by people who are even LESS criminal and dangerous to public safety than MJ users. This fact was easily verified by the local newspaper, which published a weekly list of sentences and the nature of the offense. Typical sentences for these heinous sociopaths was 6 weeks.
Drug offenders in prisons and jails have increased 1200 percent since 1980. Nearly a half million persons are in Federal or State prison or local jail for a drug offense, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980. A significant percentage of these offenders have no history of violence or high-level drug selling activity.
When I lived in Madison County, Florida, about half the black jail population (and none of the white jail population) were serving time for driving cars with registration or licensing irregularities. Jail space being occu;ied by people who are even LESS criminal and dangerous to public safety than MJ users. This fact was easily verified by the local newspaper, which published a weekly list of sentences and the nature of the offense. Typical sentences for these heinous sociopaths was 6 weeks.
D A significant percentage of these offenders have no history of violence or high-level drug selling activity.
So?
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