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>I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult. Alcohol and opioid manufacturing buying off politicians. Mass incarceration as a policy to
by claudeganon 7y ago
>I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult.
Alcohol and opioid manufacturing buying off politicians. Mass incarceration as a policy to preserve slavery in the US economy and to serve as a jobs program for police and guard forces.
- TylerE 7y agoNot only that, but the Prison-Industrial complex is a real thing. Private prisons are an outrage.
- jdminhbg 7y agoPrivate prisons only account for ~8% (and falling) of US prisoners[0]. Their incentives are bad, but public prisons have just as many self-interested groups with even more political power[1]. [0]: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso... [1]: e.g. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/biggest-obstacle-prison-reform-labor-unions/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/biggest-obstacl...
- eagsalazar2 7y agoSo sad that this is the right answer.