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Even if it were just doing that (and I don't believe that's either the objective or the practical application, minor possession offenses targeting users are the
by parineum 2y ago
Even if it were just doing that (and I don't believe that's either the objective or the practical application, minor possession offenses targeting users are the vast majority of convictions), your street level dealer is so far down the chain to have no effect on supply and is a member of the community that you're hoping to help by imprisoning.
- bloomingkales 2y agoGPT is floating out nearly 8 million arrests for drug possession in America between 1990 and 2010.
- icameron 2y agoNo, that seems far too low. I'm getting disillusioned with GPT answering everything. I don't find exact numbers for 1990-2010 but the number from 1996-2015 was over 32 million according to drugpolicyfacts.org [1] https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/table/total_arrests https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/table/total_arrests