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To: Brumar89 who wrote (782434)	4/28/2014 4:26:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1577781

>> I've known a number of marijuana users and most of them never got arrested for that. The few that I know of that had marijuana arrests (all of them when young) didn't spend a lot of time locked up and being locked up didn't really do them any long term harm. In fact, in a few cases it served as an intervention that stopped some bad trends that were going on. Yes, I get that. Most of them I know also didn't spent much time in jail. But some DO get life terms. Some DO get extended sentences. But you're totally missing the point. Yes, there is the unfairness and the detriment to our basic freedoms. But the main thing is that it is counterproductive. We have MORE drug addiction today because marijuana is illegal. We have MORE kids using marijuana. We have MORE kids getting seriously drug addicted. We have MORE adults who experience life long addictions. Because marijuana is illegal. We spend 10s of billions, if not 100s of billions, on these arcane drug laws every year. Wasted, money that SHOULD be spent on treating addiction. Instead, we THEN lock up drug addicts so they can never, so long as they live, hold meaningful employment. It is beyond stupid. It is morally outrageous.

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