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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah the number of people in prison for simple marijuana possession is like, a very low percentage and legalization will do very little to address the mass incarceration problem. One: legalization would keep more people out of jail than the ones in for simple possession, because it would legalize more than possession. Obviously. Two: legalization would remove many perverse incentives - both for enforcement and for users - that lead to more crimes being committed and existing crimes being more aggressively enforced. Not being a fundraiser for the PD would be big. Three: It opens the doors for further reforms.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:To give the devil his due, Sessions has previously raised the valid point that the current status quo is ridiculous, and that if Congress wants him not to enforce the laws, they need to do their job and change the laws. If Congress passed a law making it legal and Session found a way he could prosecute pot-people for it anyway and Congress couldn't stop him, he would absolutely do so. This is just him saying "go ahead and try to stop me". Yes, Congress could technically stop him, but that's not a particularly good argument for why he needs to do this bad thing.
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I have never much got the impression that Sessions cares all too much about Law, and he doesn't seem to mind a little disorder if it gets him what he wants. I just think he hates a wide variety of types of people, and the law is simply an effective tool he has found to hurt them en masse.
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