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There's something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90's. The time

There's something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90's. The time for federal prohibition to come to an end is far overdue.

chrshawkes 9y ago
Is that exaggerated or do you really have confirmation of somebody serving time in prison for minor pot dealings? I would be willing to be most serving time in prisons for pot were moving quite a bit of product, which would still be illegal even in legalized pot states today.
- ryen 9y ago
  There are many cases of extended time served for small personal amounts of marijuana. Especially after "tough on crime" effort and 3-strikes laws that permeated throughout the country starting in the 90s. Obama vacated many federal sentences before his term ended, but that didn't cover prisoners in state and county prisons. Plenty of press and articles around this over the past few years.
  - taheca 9y ago
    I think that this is true, but didn't Obama have a massive wave of Pardons of people like this before he left office?
    - techntoke 9y ago
      Didn't Google invent a search engine? People are still being incarcerated for long periods of time for minor marijuana offenses (well under a pound). This isn't news.
- techntoke 9y ago
  Really not hard to see the injustices here, and if you want court documents, then you can get them. Plenty of news sources as well: http://norml.org/laws/item/indiana-penalties-2 http://norml.org/laws/item/indiana-penalties-2
mmanfrin 9y ago
I'm going to quibble about your word choice. There is something disturbing about the fact that people are still rotting in jail, not that Ease raised money. Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.
- owebmaster 9y ago
  > Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing. Yes, it does. Priorities are disturbing. This doesn't happen by chance.
  - amha 9y ago
    The people who gave Eaze funding aren't the people who put low-level drug dealers in jail.
    - owebmaster 9y ago
      They might be, as there are tons of money invested into prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/us-prisons-jail-private-healthcare-companies-profit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/us-prisons-j...
  - mmanfrin 9y ago
    I don't see how a company whose existence works to normalize the use of marijuana is a priority unaligned with that of decriminalizing and clemency for those incarcerated for posession.

chrshawkes 9y ago

Is that exaggerated or do you really have confirmation of somebody serving time in prison for minor pot dealings? I would be willing to be most serving time in prisons for pot were moving quite a bit of product, which would still be illegal even in legalized pot states today.

ryen 9y ago
There are many cases of extended time served for small personal amounts of marijuana. Especially after "tough on crime" effort and 3-strikes laws that permeated throughout the country starting in the 90s. Obama vacated many federal sentences before his term ended, but that didn't cover prisoners in state and county prisons. Plenty of press and articles around this over the past few years.
- taheca 9y ago
  I think that this is true, but didn't Obama have a massive wave of Pardons of people like this before he left office?
  - techntoke 9y ago
    Didn't Google invent a search engine? People are still being incarcerated for long periods of time for minor marijuana offenses (well under a pound). This isn't news.
techntoke 9y ago
Really not hard to see the injustices here, and if you want court documents, then you can get them. Plenty of news sources as well: http://norml.org/laws/item/indiana-penalties-2 http://norml.org/laws/item/indiana-penalties-2

mmanfrin 9y ago

I'm going to quibble about your word choice. There is something disturbing about the fact that people are still rotting in jail, not that Ease raised money. Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.

owebmaster 9y ago
> Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing. Yes, it does. Priorities are disturbing. This doesn't happen by chance.
- amha 9y ago
  The people who gave Eaze funding aren't the people who put low-level drug dealers in jail.
  - owebmaster 9y ago
    They might be, as there are tons of money invested into prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/us-prisons-jail-private-healthcare-companies-profit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/us-prisons-j...
- mmanfrin 9y ago
  I don't see how a company whose existence works to normalize the use of marijuana is a priority unaligned with that of decriminalizing and clemency for those incarcerated for posession.