Niteshift

This quibbling about exact numbers is useless and a distraction from the point.

600,000, 700,000.....a million, or just 200. What's the difference?

The point is people should not be arrested for touching marijuana in the first place. Nobody.

The difference is using truth versus using falsehoods.

Doesn't it strike you as ironic that you can complain about false reasons being used to keep pot illegal, then turn around and use false numbers to argue to legalize it?


The total number of marijuana arrests far exceeds the total number of arrests for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

That's a little dishonest too. Considering that the vast majority of mj arrests are for possession and in most cases a misdemeanor, you are comparing apples and oranges.

Of course there are more misdemeanors than felonies. If there were more violent crimes than minor crimes, something would be very, very wrong.

I know some disagree for whatever reason, but marijuana suppression - implicitly and/or explicitly - is a huge part of Law Enforcement's mission'.

Despite the evidence to the contrary.

Marijuna Propaganda is apparently unquestioned by most cops, otherwise they would be in a position where they are knowingly ruining somebodys life for something that is wrong.

This is something we will probably never agree on, because you totally abrogate the role of personal responsibility in the matter.

But with increasing federal focus on drug testing - the bulk of which can only be about marijuana smoking - there will only be more arrests and ruination of people who want to smoke in their free time.

Why can the bulk "only be about marijuana"?

it's simply prohibition and prohibition is simply wrong.

On it's face, that statement is wrong.

We have prohibitions against murder, rape, theft and many other things. Obviously, prohibition, in and of itself, is not wrong.

The only terrorist they caught - Zacarious Mossaoui [sp?] - got a whole lot more legal consideration than Tommy Chong or Ed Rosenthal.

Go figure that out.

That's not hard to figure out. None of them were breaking new legal ground, whereas Mossaoui was breaking new ground in several areas.