KNIT PICKS ON THE FUTURE AND HISTORY OF WEED
It might seem odd to ne one who knows me personally that I am against the legalization of marijuana. Well I'll let Lewis Black tell you why. Because an anger white man with spazmatic fingers is far more entertaining than a long winded post.
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Nothing resembling a scene from Oprah's Great Debaters but pretty convincing.
According this article by jointogether.org and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, twenty-one percent of state inmates and 63 percent of federal inmates are considered non-violent drug offenders. That means privately owned and publically traded prison building companies like Geo Group Inc are making a killing on locking up addicts.
For more information on that watch American Drug War, The Last White Hope
So now we want the government to get a piece the action? Their War on Drugs has only resulted in a increase of drugs in America. Ultimately, leading to more dangerous and creative moonshine approaches to getting high, ie meth and crack, a job once left up to the leaf.
Let's not forget it's the government who is to blame for the lack of distinction between marijuana and other hard drugs. That myth of drug equality has created a subsection of people within the 19.6% of 12- to 17-year-olds who reported using marijuana. A subsection that found it not be harmful and question the validity of arguments against other mind altering substances like cocaine and acid. These are the people who later become the addicts.
With seemingly no end in sight and the explosion of horrific violence created by the trafficking, selling, and using of drugs what are we to do?
The solution isn't legalization its decriminalization. In burnout speech, just let it grow man!
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