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by bojackstorkman
3019 days ago
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I am glad that this is becoming more prevalent. While I personally have never really gotten into any trouble, I know a lot of people that have been incarcerated for weed. In other cases, the presence of weed allowed for entry/search by police which for any number of reasons resulted in being charged for one crime or another. More importantly (to me personally, since this affects people close to me), a big chunk of them experienced insipid forms of violence while locked up, and in some cases this derailed people for years, or even permanently. I sincerely hope that the sheer human cost of current policies can be reduced or eliminated altogether. |
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This is the biggest reason so many "law and order" types fight legalization. It's a "Get Out of the Fourth Amendment Free" card:
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/03/08/joe-kennedy-...
>Recalling his days working as a state prosecutor when Massachusetts voted in 2008 to decriminalize marijuana, Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles.
>“If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said. “When it became decriminalized, you couldn’t do that.”