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House passes Canabis decriminalization

dudalb said:
Jesus, that is stupid. Laws against Mary Jane are so widely ignored that it's like prohibition in the last days" a great many law enforcement agencies are not even trying to enforce them.
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I live on the West Coast. We have drive through pot stores.
 
would be good if they passed it so individuals would have some employment protections
 
dudalb said:
Jesus, that is stupid. Laws against Mary Jane are so widely ignored that it's like prohibition in the last days" a great many law enforcement agencies are not even trying to enforce them.
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Yet according to PEW research:
Police officers made about 663,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses...amounting to 40% of the 1.65 million total drug arrests in the U.S. that year (2018).

So, arrests are decreasing, but they are still fairly common.

Something else that should be considered.

From: Forbes
Marijuana arrests nationally are down 18% since 2010, but there has been an uptick since 2015—even though more states are enacting legalization or decriminalization policies
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Overall, black people are 3.64 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though usage rates are comparable....“The one common finding across every state and the vast majority of counties is that black people are more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than white people, regardless of whether possession is illegal, legal, or decriminalized in their state,” the report concludes.
 
dudalb said:
I live in Sacramento. In some public parks, you can stoned in the summer just by breahting the air.
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Whereabouts? I spent a lot of time up around Citrus Heights, Roseville, Folsom area.
 
Segnosaur said:
Yet according to PEW research:
Police officers made about 663,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses...amounting to 40% of the 1.65 million total drug arrests in the U.S. that year (2018).

So, arrests are decreasing, but they are still fairly common.

Something else that should be considered.

From: Forbes
Marijuana arrests nationally are down 18% since 2010, but there has been an uptick since 2015—even though more states are enacting legalization or decriminalization policies
...
Overall, black people are 3.64 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though usage rates are comparable....“The one common finding across every state and the vast majority of counties is that black people are more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than white people, regardless of whether possession is illegal, legal, or decriminalized in their state,” the report concludes.
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But how can that possibly be? Bill Barr has decreed there is "generally no systemic racism in the US among our police departments". The report must be wrong :rolleyes:
 
Stacyhs said:
But how can that possibly be? Bill Barr has decreed there is "generally no systemic racism in the US among our police departments". The report must be wrong :rolleyes:
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Black people are bad at hiding the fact that their melatonin is high.
 
ChristianProgressive said:
This is one time I say "good on em". Pot has multiple dangerous effects on the brain, especially in young people. Not only should it remain illegal, but enforcement efforts need to be stepped up.
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So, you don't sell to kids. Restrictions are there for alcohol and cigarettes, the same mechanism can be used for pot.
 
ChristianProgressive said:
This is one time I say "good on em". Pot has multiple dangerous effects on the brain, especially in young people. Not only should it remain illegal, but enforcement efforts need to be stepped up.
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Decriminalization is not legalization.

Too many young lives have been destroyed by criminal charges over small amounts of MJ. This needs to end.
 
ChristianProgressive said:
Pot has multiple dangerous effects on the brain, especially in young people.
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Multiple dangerous effects??

For example?

In young people, sure. Any mind altering substance is best avoided until after your brain has mostly finished growing. For healthy adults though marijuana is about as close to harmless as you can get.

It's impossible to die from overdose. As in actually physically impossible.

It can trigger latent mental health problems, or exacerbate existing ones. So it's not totally without risk, but the risks are *very* small for a healthy adult, certainly much smaller than other legal and regulated drugs.

If it's available legally then when you buy the stuff you know what's in what you are buying so it won't be mixed with anything like 'Spice' or other synthetic cannabinoids, which are likely more harmful.

The downsides of criminalisation of marijuana far, far outweigh any positive impacts of prohibtion.
 
Susheel said:
So, you don't sell to kids. Restrictions are there for alcohol and cigarettes, the same mechanism can be used for pot.
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This,
Mary Jane should be legalized with the same restrictions as booze.
Less sure about this approach to the harder drugs ..Heroin,Crack etc..though I think addiction should be treated as a medical problem rather then a ciminal one. But the harder stuff shoud have much more severe restrictions then Pot.
 
Nah, harder stuff should be banned, but criminalization should apply only to ones producing and selling drug. Junkies should be detoxed, not in jail for merely buying and using it.
 
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