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Re: Good News On Incarceration Rates

irishpirate — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:10:01 -0000

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet,

it's bad enough all those freakishly tall white boys from the former Yugoslavia are now making an impact on the NBA now whitey is making his move on the prison population.

What's next some of the youngest generation of Osmond's making a move into the rap industry?

Seriously, end the drug war. The "war" is worse than the impact of the drugs themselves.

Re: Good News On Incarceration Rates

Jordan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:09:01 -0000

And so the inverse trend between cocaine and amphetamine use continues.

Re: Good News On Incarceration Rates

sammyl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:13:20 -0000

What's the betting drug laws are suddenly now understood as stupid, and reforms come trotting along?

Too cynical?

Re: Good News On Incarceration Rates

nautilus1700 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:56:15 -0000

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent pushback against some of the insane drug sentencing laws that have been on the books for the last few decades. After all, Joe and Jane Country might feel a bit differently about this issue if its their friends and relatives being locked up for pushing meth than if its "those people" in the cities who are getting the rap.