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thenewgreen · 4147 days ago · link · · parent · post: Mary Jane, for or against, you pay just the same
The prison industrial complex is why Marijuana is still illegal. I don't even smoke pot, at least not in any regular sense, and I am ALL FOR LEGALIZATION. Any sane person would be.Whether you are for its legalization or not, you are paying for marijuana to be illegal. According the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 43.3% of all "Arrests for Drug Abuse Violation" are of people who are in possession of marijuana. Six percent of all drug-abuse violation arrests were for the "Sale/Manufacturing" of marijuana. In other words, a whopping 49.5% of all drug-violation arrests are connected to marijuana. Half of the population that is in prison for substance abuse is in prison for marijuana-related crimes.