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  • 20 Mar 2009 03:15 pm Ending Prohibition "The fact is, the marijuana law in the U.S. is a big lie. It's racist and classist. White rich people can smoke marijuana with impunity and poor black people get a record, can't get education, can't get a loan, and all of sudden go into a life of desperation and become hardened criminals. Why? Because we've got a racist law based on lies about marijuana. There's 80,000 people in jail today for marijuana. We arrested 800,000 people in the last 12 months on marijuana. Even in my rich little white suburban community of Edmonds, Wash., 25 percent of police action is marijuana-related. Everybody knows it's silly. I'm not saying I'm pro-drug. I'm just saying it's parallel to alcohol prohibition. When they rescinded the laws against alcohol, nobody said booze is good, they just said it was stupid to make it a crime, that you're creating organized crime and people are dying," - Rick Steves, broadcaster and travel guru.
  • Billions and billions of dollars each year. Millions of man-hours each year. Millions of with arrest records. 500,000 prisoners in jail right now. Almost one-half the entire jail population.
  • http://www.screencast.com/users/msaleem/folders/Jing/media/9cfcf5f8-a548-4a5c-abc4-27e0c99aae93 See the link. From 1920 until 1980 the prison population hovered around 500,000. From 1980 until 1980 it has spiked up to 2.5 million. At present it is almost 3,000,000. At least half are in for victimless crimes--drugs. Time to legalize--don;t you think?

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