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> There sure are some who benefit from having canabis sativa prohibited. If I was running a private prison, for example. Why the adjective 'private' there? Su
by eadmund 6y ago
> There sure are some who benefit from having canabis sativa prohibited. If I was running a private prison, for example.
Why the adjective 'private' there? Surely wardens, prison guards and the prison bureaucracy in each state benefit from drug prohibition just as much as do private prison owners. Given that private prisons only hold 8.2% of prisoners, I think that State prisons are by far the worse offender here.
- froh 6y agoWow. TIL. I was not aware of the exact private prison inmate share, and I thought it to be much higher. Re: "worse offender", though, I guess that trophy goes to the whole system of "war on drugs": legislation, legislators, corresponding policing and then jurisdiction. It all looks and sounds just and fine and logical. However at the end, prison work is slave work, inmates lose their right to vote, the whole "war on drugs" is a system where war on drugs in almost all cases is a war on POC.
- aegis4244 6y agoPrison guard unions do in fact lobby to keep weed illegal.