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- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -30/+133Decriminalizing __________ will reduce prison population.
- NapaSales150, on 11/22/2007, -6/+102haha, not exactly a news flash, but nice to hear this from the Department of Justice
- mattewood, on 11/22/2007, -5/+94Wars can't last forever.. the War on Drugs and specifically the War on Marijuana will eventually end, and the troops will be sent home.
It's the slowest realization I've heard of.. but every day more people are realizing that this battle is hopeless and must be ended. - epicstruggle, on 11/22/2007, -6/+70As someone who has never used drugs, alcohol or cigarettes, I hope we end the war on drugs and lower the drinking age. I think at this point we should allow individuals (over the age of 18) to use most drugs, and allow them to start drinking at 18 too.
- sm3287, on 11/22/2007, -3/+64Man i just wanna smoke in peace, not have to look over my shoulders... *Sigh
- sixtyton, on 11/22/2007, -2/+45
It's a fact: North American Drug policies are a major cause of criminal activity. By criminalizing drug sales and drug trade, we end up with the same problems we faced during the prohibition: turf wars end up in gun violence; and it is not people high on drugs shooting it out, it's the people profiting from drugs.
75 percent of drug-related crime and violence come from people fighting over the marketplace -- who is going to sell what on what corner at what time.
What we need to do is end the war on drugs and instead focus on shutting down this criminal market that exists only because of the fact that it is illegal and unregulated.
By ending the war on drugs. we can take this money away from the mobs and gangs. - ZenMojo, on 11/22/2007, -0/+27So the American Psychiatric Association unanimously agrees that pot should be legalized at least as a controlled substance: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november072007/ ...
And the DoJ thinks legalizing marijuana would decrease the prison population without adversely affecting safety.
So when will the layman Congress catch up with the professional world. - pegisys, on 11/22/2007, -1/+26yeah but it would put murders on the street. If all the potheads are let out only thing I have to worry about is the store not having any cheetos
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -0/+23the goal is to increase the prison population. there is money in it for the prison industry and the kickbacks the lawmakers get.
- BarleyWind, on 11/22/2007, -4/+23Great analogy *****.
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -19/+38Is it REALLY too much to ask of you to read MORE than the headline? How about the " without adversely affecting public safety" part? You know, just a LITTLE more. I don't expect you to actually READ the ARTICLE, since I see from you name you are a RonBot. Headlines and bumper sticker phrases are the limit of your cognition?
- epicstruggle, on 11/22/2007, -1/+20Huh? Did you read my post. Im for allowing adults do what they want.
- RomanticStorm, on 11/22/2007, -1/+19'They' should not have 'criminalized' hemp in the first place. I'm wondering who authorized politicians to 'criminalize' a plant; I didn't neither my parents, grandparents, and etc. I was under the erroneous belief that govern-ment authority rested with 'we the people'? Who authorized these ***** to do anything to me, for me, and anything else 'me'. What the people need is a national referendum on this and other social issues because self important and self appointed people can not and have never represented the interests of the people. We live not in a democracy but a federated republic; that's the way the govern-ment of America was set up to be, not a 'democracy'.
- bluesngr, on 11/22/2007, -0/+16The relevant part is "Have No Adverse Impact On Public Safety." Certainly public safety is the main reason we have jails and prisons, not the punishment part of criminal justice. We handle many crimes with fines, community service, and removing various rights and privileges. When drunk driving, which is patently more dangerous than possession of marijuana, is handled with slighter penalties, the laws are irrational.
But go ahead, choke the courts and prisons with drug cases. Let's put people behind bars during their most productive years for marijuana. Tougher sentencing wins elections, sounds good O'Reilly and Rush, and makes a significant portion of our citizenry worthless. Nice to know we're so wealthy we can afford to throw lives away like so much trash. Not quite as easy to recycle, though. - GoingPostal, on 11/22/2007, -2/+16This has to be the DUH! post of the week.
- emjaymj, on 11/22/2007, -1/+15Funny thing is that Ron Paul supports legalization.
- vault, on 11/22/2007, -1/+15Yeah, definitely a step in the right direction but I'm not too optimistic it'll lead to anything. One can hope.
- atheistp3ace, on 11/22/2007, -1/+14I'm pretty sure giving someone an OPTION to drink or use drugs is not a dictatorship. Its freedom.
- Bodhidharmazen, on 11/22/2007, -3/+15"War on drugs" yeah.. right! Drugs are a problem not because people use them, but because corruption (on higher levels) and the money associated to it (when you are a producer). Legalize drugs (pot for instance) and the business will be gone!! No more corruption and with more producers (and costs flooring) it will be no business worth any dead nor people in jail!
- Lawlersk8r, on 11/22/2007, -2/+14While headline is painfully obvious, it's nice to hear people who aren't even criminals can be released "with no adverse effects to society"
- Suricou, on 11/22/2007, -3/+14Predicted political response: "But if we decriminalise pot, the criminals win!"
- Yawgmoth, on 11/22/2007, -2/+14RTFT : "without adversely affecting public safety"
RTFA: "The report states, “[V]iolence that surrounds drug trafficking in the United States is largely absent” in Western European countries that have liberalized their drug possession policies. The authors further note that the decriminalization of drugs, particularly marijuana, in regions that have enacted such reforms has not been associated with an increase in crime rates."
Seriously guys, read at least the WHOLE title before posting. Is that too much to ask? I'm not even asking for you to read the article ... you might strain yourself, but please please please at least read the whole title. - inactive, on 11/22/2007, -10/+20LAND OF THE FREE & HOME OF THE BRAVE
Yeah right, free and brave my ass! America has the largest Prison population in the world per capita and I guess bravery is unprovolked attack on a soverign nation based on a puppet president's lies?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aa ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/septembe ...
Yeah, thats "FREE & BRAVE" all right!! - Itazura, on 11/22/2007, -5/+15It's a common sense headline with a common sense article that doesn't even need reading to understand if you have the brain of a 3rd grader.
- insllvn, on 11/22/2007, -0/+9Good point. I think religious people, evangelicals in particular, are annoying. We should ban that to, at least until those people can learn not to piss me off so much. *****.
- NikoKun, on 11/22/2007, -2/+11Murder and rape are not "victimless crimes"... -_- If you can't see the difference between that, and smoking pot, you need help.
A crime without a victim, is not a crime, and does not deserve ANY jail time... The Punishment should never be worse than the crime... and certainly putting someone in jail for smoking pot, is far worse for them, than smoking the pot was... -_-
It makes no sense... and so this is an easy and Just way, that we can lower the prison population... Prohibition, and jailing people for drugs... is not justice... I don't know of a greater INjustice... -_- Thats why decriminalizing is the right move... - rheaume, on 11/22/2007, -2/+11Ill take one step further: At the age of 18, every American should be given a huge line of Cocaine, a bottle of Jack Daniels and a large caliber handgun, be blindfolded, spun around and sent down the street.
Opps sorry i forgot:
USA! USA! USA! - debuggercll, on 11/22/2007, -1/+10Then I'm not sure it's worth the risks.
- jahurt, on 11/22/2007, -0/+9Many things have a potential for abuse, however throwing victims in prison doesn't seem like the most effective strategy.
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -1/+10Thats called stupidity, smoking pot then driving a car is stupid, by your reasoning alchohol should be illegal too
- Jowsley, on 11/22/2007, -0/+9Prison labor just encourages the police to make sure the prisons are full.
http://www.wpi.edu/News/TechNews/010327/prisonlabo ... - cannarymburns, on 11/23/2007, -0/+8ding ding ding, we have a winner... so if your bro did that while he was drunk, it wouldn't have been retarded to drive a car in the first place? we're not arguing the legality of dui here, *****... nospinehere, you just fail.
- apetrie, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8Yet another fool who didn't even read the whole title, never mind the article. The point is the study shows that doing this would not harm society, unlike legalizing many other things.
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8And criminalizing alchohol would increase the Prison Population, whats your point?
the point of the article is that the people who smoke pot and/or sell pot aren't commiting a crime worth taking up jail cells for, its victimless, to both the user and the people around him/her, and can actually be healthy for you in some ways.
Murder is murder, and the criminality of it is not in question - healious, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8smoking, yes, and drinking (or pretty much anything) in excess will cut some time of the end of yur life, but alcohol in moderation has been shown to have more positive effects than negative
- CrazyChair, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8Your bro is a *****. Driving under the influence of drugs is the crime, simply smoking pot is victimless.
- PistolSO, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8They had that in England...it was called debtor's prison and a major reason why people came to America in the first place, to escape that slave labour *****
- NikoKun, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8All those are crimes with victims... Smoking pot is nothing in comparison... and does not deserve a punishment...
- TJ11240, on 11/22/2007, -2/+10With less crowded jails, better rehabilitation and care can be given to violent criminals. And we pay less taxes.
- sb66, on 11/23/2007, -0/+8Yeah grow up. Stop smoking pot and do something responsible, like joining the army and killing people.
/yes this is sarcasm. - gbarberi, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8The amount of money we spend to support them in prison is greater than the amount we would spend to support them in higher education. Criminal behavior goes down as education level goes up, but send them to prison and they are more likely to come out and commit "victim" crimes.
- starkruzr, on 11/22/2007, -3/+11Here's the important question. Can you decriminalize other drugs without adversely affecting public safety? Shrooms? Heroin? Coke? Crack? Meth?
I want to say "yes," and that the key is putting money into strong, effective anti-destructive-drug education rather than drug wars, but for every source I site that would support that, someone else will come up with another discrediting it. So I don't know. - FFIO, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8Way to be original.
- knomevol, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8i know a liver & kidney transplant surgeon who has a beer with every dinner.
- Yawgmoth, on 11/22/2007, -1/+9You're forgetting a key fact in the titile and article "without adversely affecting public safety"
Of course it's brutally obvious but the goverment has been ignoring it. This study is coming from a Washington DC think tank ... maybe congress will finally get it through their thick skulls if these guys bash the idea into their heads - sipps, on 11/22/2007, -0/+8So I should be put into prison for smoking pot because in an extremely small percentage of the population it may "unmask underlying schizophrenia"? Do you know what happens when you drink too much alcohol? You Die! And how about the correlation between smoking (TOBACCO) and lung cancer! Nobody is saying marijuana is completely harmless, but it is for damn sure less harmful than alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine. So don't give us a ***** lecture on being responsible when the illegality of the drug itself is irresponsible.
- Grumps, on 11/22/2007, -3/+10We dont have to decriminalize it. We just have to threat everyone else like celebrities who get jailed for only hours.
- thetimeisnow, on 11/22/2007, -3/+10and in Reality
Marijuana = Medicine - SouthsideIrish, on 11/22/2007, -0/+7You mean that you should not do it. You do not own mean and do not have the right to tell me what I can put in my body. If I have some disease than I should have the right to use whatever drug will help me.
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