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by boomboomsubban 1956 days ago
>I am the last person to ask for a citation, but you are responding to a comment which provided one, so your lack thereof does hurt your credibility.

I don't think I need a citation to show that those sources are terrible. I never claimed to know how many people are actually locked up.

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If it's not terribly easy to refute the claims with a reliable source, then yeah, you probably need a citation.
I would need a citation if I was saying the figures they claim are wrong. I'm saying they provide no detail on how they got those figures, have clear monetary interest, and are only presenting a portion of the people in jail for marijuana charges. My "source" is reading the sources the poster provided.