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by ein0p 779 days ago
It’s interesting that you chose to omit the more recent stats, as well as to notice that under the proposed change those people could still be in trouble for illegally possessing a controlled substance. But even then, it’s not just “2 guys” we’re talking about here. It’s 350 million people who are being illegally spied on and lied to. Dropping the charges against Assange and Snowden and apologizing to them would be a good first step on fixing all that.
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> chose to omit ...

I pasted the first link I found but since you're trying to insinuate something about my motives:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/irisdorbian/2023/10/19/weed-arr...

> The exact figure was 227,108 arrests. Of that number, 92% were for possession only. This number is a slight jump from 2021 when the FBI reported a total of 219,489 arrests for marijuana.

Your point being what? That 220k arrested is a dramatic improvement over 300k?