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In reply to the discussion: White House: America's prisons more costly than helpful [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The drug war has been an out of control authoritarian clusterfuck for decades. I can run down a list of absolutely atrocious fallout from the thing and be here all day, starting with the guy locked in the DEA cell for 5 days with no food or water because he was in attendance at a party where pot was being smoked, the infant who had the flash grenade thrown into his crib in alabama, the guy in the wheelchair sentenced to 25 years for managing his own spinal pain. People shot in their own homes because the SWAT team misread the address numbers.
Everything is just fine and dandy with cops following sick people home from hydroponics stores and judges putting them in prison for 10 years over a few plants, because it is "rare" that anyone goes to prison for smoking pot? Drug warriors want a fucking medal for that? They couldnt put all the pot smokers in prison even if they wanted to, and believe me, some of them do.
THE LAW IS WRONG, and just because it is rarely enforced to the full extent it is written doesnt make it any better.