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by chaired 4443 days ago
Every time I meet one of their couriers in broad daylight, and they hand me a receipt, I feel like I'm just grazing a tiny part of history. It's not Rosa Parks level. It's a smaller matter, but it's still an important change for Western society, which legitimizes very, very few kinds of states of consciousness, and strongly favors the one that makes you most productive in a job.
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For minorities it's not a small matter. i502 is about so much more than getting high, it's about eliminating a policy which was so often enforced at the discretion of the officer and prosecutor, which opened the door for all kinds of discrimination.

the war on drugs is one of the most damaging policies for society, and i502 is a substantial step in the right direction.