{"id":14760,"date":"2017-11-06T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2017-11-06T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:20:25","slug":"your-voice-what-concerns-do-you-have-on-the-legalization-of-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/your-voice-what-concerns-do-you-have-on-the-legalization-of-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voice: What concerns do you have on the legalization of marijuana?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One concern: That it won’t happen soon enough.
\nIt’s time. Get on with it already. Stop lying about supposed dangers in order to pretend prohibition works. It didn’t work for booze and it doesn’t work for drugs. People who get into trouble using drugs need help, not jail, whether the drug is weed, heroin, cocaine, booze, tobacco, or whatever.
\nAllowing some drugs as acceptable, while treating the use of others as an arrestable crime is the pique of hypocrisy, and persists only as an excuse for illegal profiling tactics, such as “stop-and-frisk”. I mean, what would they do if they couldn’t arrest at least SOME of the people after they’ve been illegally searched? If they couldn’t lock ’em up for a joint or a couple of pills…pocket lint with a seed in it, they’d have to just let them go. Where’s the fun in that?
\n #News420<\/p>\n

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One concern: That it won’t happen soon enough. It’s time. Get on with it already. Stop lying about supposed dangers in order to pretend prohibition works. It didn’t work for booze and it doesn’t work for drugs. 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