We Are Arresting Far Too Many Pot Heads
Sigh...
That's 686,728 thousand people investigated, arrested, indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed for using a relatively mild drug that has an effect on humans that is not much different than alcohol. Or, not any worse anyway.
Can you imagine what an expense all these arrests are for taxpayers like you and me? It seems ludicrous that we'd be throwing all this money and manpower at a relatively benign "problem" like private marijuana usage while we set illegal immigrants loose in our population after they've already been arrested because there's not enough room to detain them all.
Not to mention all the high-risk sex predators who are put back in our midst every year.
There are bigger problems than pot heads for our government to tackle.
According to FBI figures released today, a record number of people were arrested for marijuana offenses in the U.S. last year: 771,605, compared to the previous record of 755,186, set in 2003 (which surpassed the earlier peak of 735,500, reached in 2000). Marijuana accounted for more than two-fifths of the 1.7 million drug arrests. As usual, the vast majority of marijuana cases (89 percent) involved possession, as opposed to cultivation or trafficking.
That's 686,728 thousand people investigated, arrested, indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed for using a relatively mild drug that has an effect on humans that is not much different than alcohol. Or, not any worse anyway.
Can you imagine what an expense all these arrests are for taxpayers like you and me? It seems ludicrous that we'd be throwing all this money and manpower at a relatively benign "problem" like private marijuana usage while we set illegal immigrants loose in our population after they've already been arrested because there's not enough room to detain them all.
Not to mention all the high-risk sex predators who are put back in our midst every year.
There are bigger problems than pot heads for our government to tackle.
