So 61% agree pot should be legal but federal laws don’t match what we believe, and want for ourselves, our friends, our families? Federal rules prevent banks from opening bank accounts, and employees get sent to jail? The A.G. resists legalizing pot, and is hostile to states’ rights to enact their own state laws?
States without law updates see arrests uptick
Other Healthy Uses: 100% pure sativa, massage oil
Class I felony is for addictive drugs like heroin. (Pot and heroin are not interchangeable terms). EZ Political Checkup? Ask your elected representatives how they’re voting on MJA- Marijuana Justice Act. If they’re opposed, with your friends and family vote ‘em out of office.
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The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017 introduced
so 61% agree. SOUNDS LIKE ROCKET SCIENCE?
Pot arrest every 42 seconds
$900 average per person cost for pot arrest
2001-2010 8.2 million arrests for pot; 88% for possession.
2010 ALONE $3.6 Billion spent enforcing pot possession
2016 Federal prisoners, 47% drug-related = 82,000 inmates
over 50% of all federal drug arrests are for pot
Cost per year housing federal inmates re drugs @ $30,000/year each = $2.46 Billion for drugs (for 1 yr.)
Federal “pot” prisoner costs > $1.23 Billion for 2016
2015 State prisoners, 15% drug-related = 197,200 inmates
Cost per year housing states’ inmates re drugs @ $30,000/year each = $5.92 Billion for drugs (for 1 yr.)
State Imprisoned for possession only = 44,700
State drug “possession” prisoner costs > $1.34 Billion
(For similar % of use) Ratio of non-white to white arrests: 4:1
2016 States with private for-profit prisons housing > 20% of total inmates:
- New Mexico (43%), Montana (39%), Oklahoma (27%), Tennessee (26%), and Hawaii (25%)
Source official 2016 @ bjs.gov
Prohibition is Already Over!
THIS IS OUR FUTURE:
BUILD PRISONS? …Or BUILD SCHOOLS?
Compare. 2014: For (PERMANENT) additions to existing schools, we invested $3.2 Billion; and for retrofitting and modernization of existing structures, $3.14 Billion.
In 2016: For (ONE YEAR) housing inmates for drugs we spent over $8 Billion. (More than schools, just for inmate housing!).