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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]almost no one goes to jail solely because of pot possession unless they have so much that they're a drug dealer. i dont know why this myth refuses to die.  [/quote]

"almost no one" isn't very comforting to the people who do go to jail. [/quote]

Don’t break the law and you won’t. Did you grow up in a world devoid of consequences? [/quote]

It's so cute* how you ignore racist policing patterns and how "just follow the law" is applied unevenly.  Like, every one of your January 6 buddies would have been shot.

*not cute[/quote]

Actually, I'm a crime analyst.    And very liberal.    I've posted here before.   Cops aren't going after marijuana because it's marijuana.  Cops go after the violence associated with marijuana.   Just like they went after the violence associated with crack rather than powder cocaine, which had nowhere near the amount of associated street violence.

Unfortunately, the nation does not experience safety equally.   The victims of community violence are overwhelmingly young Black men.   Different jurisdictions have had varying experience with the illicit cannabis trade after legalization.  California in particular has seen illicit sales and the associated violence grow.   Here in Montgomery County, historically, all drug-related homicides are related to marijuana.   That homicide rate has increased since we decriminalized marijuana.    When you reduce the transactional cost for law breakers and increase the transactional cost of law enforcement, you get more violent crime.    And that's what has happened here.

If the drug-related murder rate falls in Montgomery County, I will come back and eat my words.   (And gladly, honestly)    But I don't think it will.   I think shootings and homicides will only increase.   And while that likely won't impact UMC white cannabis fans, it absolutely will hurt young Black men.

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Your claims of murders increasing since Mont Co decriminalized marijuana are extremely dubious. DC hasn't had an increase in "murders" since marijuana was legalized/decriminalized. Why would Mont Co?

You are simply a bald faced liar. Marijuana is going to be legalized in MD today and I'm going to love watching you crying your eyes in out in response. The sky isn't falling.[/quote]

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