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Are these people you know traffickers? Because being thrown in jail for simple possession of marijuana is very rare. In 2022 the number of people in the US cust
by bko 4y ago
Are these people you know traffickers? Because being thrown in jail for simple possession of marijuana is very rare. In 2022 the number of people in the US custody for marijuana is zero [0]. Even in 2017 it was very rare
> Moreover, separate data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission show that only 92 people were sentenced for marijuana possession in the federal system in 2017, out of a total of nearly 20,000 drug convictions.
[0] https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/weighing-impact-simple-possession-marijuana https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/weighing-impa...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/general-election/fact-checking-the-first-democratic-debate/how-many-people-are-in-prison-on-marijuana-charges/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/ge...
- pixl97 4y agoI think you're neglecting the last 50 years of the war on drugs here, and yes I will admit that its pretty hard these days to get anything more than just a fine with drugs alone, but to neglect how many people have been jailed in the past when it was much more significant would be foolish. With that said, you've evidently ignored the plentra of police cam videos out there that show that "Cops are real pricks quite often", and suddenly the cop harassing you for drugs is now arresting you for assaulting an officer, in which you're going to jail for unless someone else happened to film it because juries believe cops almost all of the time.