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Warren DeMontague

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9. My position is, legalize and tax marijuana (and maybe psychedelics) adopt a harm reduction strategy

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 05:45 PM

Apr 2012

for other, hard drugs.

The 60 Billion we currently spend on the DEA could fund a lot of treatment on demand, the tax revenue from legal, regulated pot could do a serious job of refilling the public coffers of states like California... Not to mention, again, the costs of incarceration.

I'm of the opinion that prisons really ought to be for violent people and people who present a threat to others, first and foremost. There need to be other ways of "dealing", or not dealing, as the case may be, with people who have different problems like addiction.

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Mothers Protest Inhumane Treatment of Sons in Supermax Prison [View all] Whisp Apr 2012 OP

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2012 #1

Aren't the Supermax prisons shawn703 Apr 2012 #2

Supposed to be the worst of the worst inmates One_Life_To_Give Apr 2012 #6

The more I see of our country the less I recognize it. Doremus Apr 2012 #3

Yeah, but out of that 2.3 Million people in prison, only 80% or so are in for pot smoking Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #4

Wow. Neoma Apr 2012 #5

It's an estimate. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #7

Would it save the government money... Neoma Apr 2012 #8

My position is, legalize and tax marijuana (and maybe psychedelics) adopt a harm reduction strategy Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #9

Except that even violent people are sometimes just really sick. Neoma Apr 2012 #10

I distinguish between harming/endangering others and ones self, however. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #11