More Marijuana Arrests in US Than Apprehensions for Violence in 2011: A National Disgrace
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
The most basic instinct of humans is self-preservation and keeping free from personal harm. So when you have a nation where police arrest more people for marijuana possession than for violent crime, it would appear that protecting citizens from physical harm takes second place to enforcing archaic laws demonizing a weed that induces euphoria and an urge to eat.
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It is a financially wasteful use of public funds to criminally pursue marijuana possession due to a tattered, discredited and dying social prejudice among older Americans.
It is a policy dangerous to our personal well-being, because while cops are booking Americans for a few joints found in a pocket, an armed robber is getting away in an alley somewhere.
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