I hope you smoke a mountain of pot —GREAT..!
Are there a couple people in prison, only for pot? Surely yes.
But the vast majority are violent criminals incarcerated because they were guilty of murder, but witnesses were intimidated into providing no testimony.
So the cops send them away on drug or weapons charges —you can’t intimidate drugs or guns into not existing.
All prisoners tell journalists or activists, “I’m only here because of some pot” and the guy is completely festooned with tattoos.
You like pot? GREAT..!
There are MANY more people in prison for very low level drug crimes than there are for murder.
“But the vast majority are violent criminals incarcerated because they were guilty of murder, but witnesses were intimidated into providing no testimony.”
Well, if the witnesses wouldn’t testify to it, then they weren’t guilty. In this country you are innocent until proven guilty.
I do get what you are saying. Sure, sometimes you have to convict Al Capone of tax evasion because that’s all you can get him on. However, if we are keeping stupid or unjust laws on the books because those have become crutches for law enforcement or prosecutors who can’t otherwise do their jobs properly, then that is not a good development.