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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:26 PM
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21. When Prisons stop = Profit
Right now, that's a HUGE industry to be involved with... people are making a lot of money off of '3-strikes' laws and the like. I agree that they do have their applications, in some cases I'd almost like them to be 1-strike laws (rape, particularly, and child molestation). But 3-strikes for pot smokers, etc., quickly fill up big prisons. And someone sells food to those prisons, and clothes, and cleaning services, and... and... and.... it goes on.

"The number of Americans in the prison system has doubled since 1985" -System of a Down
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  -LEGALIZE MJ, COCAINE, HEROIN! NOW! bertha katzenengel  Apr-26-05 08:09 PM   #0 
  - If the US grew cannabis and taxed it, we'd eliminate our national debt.  goodboy   Apr-26-05 08:10 PM   #1 
  - See? That's exactly what I'm talking about!  bertha katzenengel   Apr-26-05 08:11 PM   #2 
  - bring back prohibition!  redsoxliberal   Apr-26-05 08:13 PM   #3 
  - Heh heh heh . . . I've never even made it to 4-20, redsoxlib...  bertha katzenengel   Apr-26-05 08:20 PM   #11 
     - that's cool  redsoxliberal   Apr-26-05 08:34 PM   #18 
  - here in the land of al capone  mopinko   Apr-26-05 08:15 PM   #4 
  - Part of the allure of the drug culture  Goathead   Apr-26-05 08:15 PM   #5 
  - I don't know: is it illegal for one to grow his own tobacco? To brew  bertha katzenengel   Apr-26-05 08:18 PM   #9 
  - don't know about tobacco  mopinko   Apr-26-05 08:32 PM   #14 
  - Try selling it though n/t  Goathead   Apr-26-05 10:51 PM   #22 
  - Sounds like you're arguing for decriminalization  Dave Sund   Apr-26-05 09:24 PM   #20 
  - I don't think the Government is solving the problem  Zuni   Apr-26-05 08:15 PM   #6 
  - Agree 100%.  MuseRider   Apr-26-05 08:17 PM   #7 
  - When and where did you get hitched?  sasquatch   Apr-26-05 08:18 PM   #8 
  - I am ignorant about a lot of things, sasquatch...  bertha katzenengel   Apr-26-05 08:19 PM   #10 
     - Oxycotin = hillbilly heroin  Ariana Celeste   Apr-26-05 08:24 PM   #12 
     - ooh, no, no, no, no.  bertha katzenengel   Apr-26-05 08:29 PM   #13 
     - When and where did you get hitched?  sasquatch   Apr-26-05 09:19 PM   #19 
  - Just let me grow my own, please  HeeBGBz   Apr-26-05 08:33 PM   #15 
  - I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!  DistressedAmerican   Apr-26-05 08:33 PM   #16 
  - One of the main reasons  Ariana Celeste   Apr-26-05 08:34 PM   #17 
  - When Prisons stop = Profit  LynzM   Apr-26-05 09:26 PM   #21 
  - kick -- any other opinions?  bertha katzenengel   Apr-27-05 11:07 AM   #23 
  - And, while we're at it - legalize prostitution as well. Save those  Bullwinkle925   Apr-27-05 11:12 AM   #24 
  - It sure would stop this phony war on drugs  KitchenWitch   Apr-27-05 11:14 AM   #25 
  - I agree, but...  EstimatedProphet   Apr-27-05 11:26 AM   #26 
 

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