The "War on Drugs" continues...

[kentuck]

http://www.middlesborodailynews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Bell+County+Circuit+Court+hands+down+sentences%20&id=4364145-Bell+County+Circuit+Court+hands+down+sentences&instance=secondary_news_left_column

[Taverner]

1. Honestly - and I know not all of you agree - but these guys are political prisoners

Bullshit if you think otherwise

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Totally agree.

[ixion]

4. yep

I would agree.

[ixion]

3. how very, very sad

All the while people sit around debating, hundreds of thousands of people have their lives destroyed every year by this idiotic and insane 'war' on (some) drugs.

End this stupid 'war', and release non-violent offenders.

[Echo In Light]

5. A lot of "first offenses" there. Why are so many aspects of the US so fucking evil?

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Because we've let radical clerics determine our laws

Even though it's unconstitutional.

[abq e streeter]

6. I feel so much safer every time another stoner is locked up

(never know if it's needed, so I try to err on the side of "just in case"): :sarcasm:

[Flaneur]

7. Same shit in courthouses across the land. Gotta feed the machine.

I wonder what percentage of policing, prosecuting, judging, imprisoning, and paroling spending goes for this useless shit. We could probably lop 20% or 30% off law enforcement budgets just by legalizing.