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I'm willing to bet decriminalization of weed is a huge factor of keeping kids out of prison. Just hope we continue to learn how to build a system that restores
by supernovae 8y ago
I'm willing to bet decriminalization of weed is a huge factor of keeping kids out of prison.
Just hope we continue to learn how to build a system that restores dignity, treats the causes of criminal activity and focuses on keeping people out of the system. Hard to do when many prisons are moving to for-profit private facilities.
- beat 8y agoThe numbers were dropping long before the current wave of marijuana decriminalization.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoDecriminalization of property crime probably helps too.
- Janeman544 8y agoMarijuana and Tobacco are not cool anymore for kids. Part of the reason why Vaping became a fad is because the youngsters did not bother with all kinds of smoking. The numbers show that teenage drinking and smoking has been going down year on year since the 90s. Vaping changed at but I think that trend is a short lived too.
- njharman 8y agoIt's not just or even mostly the direct "kid smoked weed went to jail". It's growing up in a culture of drug war were the police are the enemy cause they round up, hassle, and jail your older brothers, parents, everyone you know for doing things you know are not criminal. The pushers, gangs, lookouts, mules, etc. Surround kids with crimes and criminals, they will pick up the lifestyle. Pot is not a gateway drug. But pot illegalization was a gateway into crime.
- njharman 8y agoAlso decriminalization of being born to an immigrant.
- artursapek 8y agoWow, since when was that illegal? That's like the entire country at this point.