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'Residents of two states voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, but despite an increase in public support for liberalizing drug policy, American police arrested about the same number of people last year on pot-related charges as in 2011.
Data released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show there were an estimated 1,552,432 arrests for drug-related crimes in 2012 – a slight uptick from the 1,531,251 drug arrests in 2011.
The US states are not provinces. Each state is given some freedom to make its own laws. These laws are meant to represent the people of that state. The fact that different states have different laws is a good thing. It shows that despite the federal government exercising more and more control over the lives of US citizens, there is still some level of self determination by the states being expressed.
Time to legalize cannabis and tax the THC out of it. No need to arrest anyone. Have the same restrictions as we have for alcohol consumption.
$50 an ounce tax would help the treasury and empty the jails. Plus it would put drug cartels out of business. We learned that lesson with the repel of prohibition.
Sorry, but no. Meth and some other drugs are just too dangerous.
Regardless, laws dont prevent the usage of those drugs, just forces them underground. And if it were legal would you suddenly start doing meth?
Sorry, but we need to take away the governments power to dictate what we put in our own bodies
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'Residents of two states voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, but despite an increase in public support for liberalizing drug policy, American police arrested about the same number of people last year on pot-related charges as in 2011.
Data released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show there were an estimated 1,552,432 arrests for drug-related crimes in 2012 – a slight uptick from the 1,531,251 drug arrests in 2011.
Why wouldn't police arrest roughly the same number of people when it's still illegal? Do you expect the police in 49 states to stop enforcing the law because 1 state made it legal? (you couldn't legally buy in WA until a couple days ago) Do you expect the police to just decide what laws they should and shouldn't enforce? Usually people complain and sue the police when they do that.
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