[hourislate]

Not just freeing people from jail but to finally stop prosecuting people and wasting 100's of millions in Tax Payer Money. How many young people have had their lives ruined over a joint? When I think of all the poor kids who got fucked over, that was the real crime. Any politician who stands in the way of legalization should be thrown out of Government, including the President.

[com]

I’ve been involved in dealing with pre-employment criminal background check red flags, and the number of times I’ve had to tell our (US) HR people that we don’t care if someone got busted for smoking low-quality pot in their college town once, it’s just one of the things that people learning about the world may try and do. I know I did.

The gratefulness of these hires is awful to see. And these are the middle class ones. Poorer and more disadvantaged groups have even less likelihood than otherwise of being in our hiring funnel because of this.

Strike these victimless “crimes” from the public record.

[lpa22]

Straight facts. There is hundreds of millions not only wasted, but also much more than that to be made in tax revenue by legalizing and taxing it. The fact these people focused on petty crime and punishing people is sickening.

[fedreserved]

The reason I feel federally they will delay legalizing it as much as possible is due to tax revenue. Due to it being illegally federally, the irs does not allow anyone to write off their expenses accept expenses that contribute to the cost of goods sold. This increases the effective tax rate drastically

[Blikkentrekker]

Barack Obama called using cannabis his greatest moral failure.

I refuse to believe that there is but a single politician on the planet whose greatest moral failure can be willingly consuming any substance.

[drenei]

Do you have a quote for this? This is the first I’m hearing of it and a simple search online doesn’t pull anything up.

[tiagod]

He never said it.

> "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Mr Obama said. >But he added that in terms of its impact on the individual consumer "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol".

[Blikkentrekker]

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/obama-mccain-ad...

This came out on top when searching for it.

To be fair, he phrased it it as “experimenting with drugs”, but as far as I know only the Cannabis is publicly known.