Democrats May Have a Problem in 2020. Let's Ask Them the Tough Questions Now!
Let’s talk about decriminalization & sentencing policies on a Federal level that will have to be enacted once nationwide legalization eventually takes effect …
Just run a SQL query on the prison records or court records. That'll tell you who's eligible for release pretty quick
Yep it's all about the MARY JANE.
Immature. Just cop to using. Legalize 46 billion in CO. but can't touch it …. Grow up, CO. has best blue print. Just do it.
Prisoners definitely need to be released. Congress should make this mandatory by federal law. The war on drugs doesn't work anymore than Prohibition did. Portugal realized this after fighting their losing battle with war on drugs and legalized drug use (with restrictions) and decriminalized addicts. Taxpayers money went from paying to imprison people to offer free rehab along with other services and was less expensive for taxpayers. EU strongly advised Portugal not to change their laws and said their addiction rate would increase along with crimes. EU was wrong. Within less than 10 years, addiction rate significantly dropped and new addiction rates practically nil and also crimes associated with drugs. Research Portugal.
Organized crime didn't want to loose out on that money !
Don't you just love the US legal system. One law for the rich and the poor can go fuck themselves..In Europe these so called criminals for low level possession get a street warning and never set a foot in prison. You know the civilized countries..
And yet, the RepubliCan'ts are addicted to something far worse than this – the BS of the Fox News Network/ Sinclair Broadcasting complex!
Subscribed after this, wish everyone felt the same.
I saw an add featuring John Boehner, talking about the booming bud business…
The weed problem is that I no longer have the right to vote for being caught with it 12 years ago.
Legalize marijuana but make it a crime to drive while impaired and no smoking while operating a motor vehicle. DWI Driving while impaired.
Word!
DemCorp has a problem with marijuana, Bernie, Tulsi, and Yang do not.
Thank you for addressing this important issue.
Build that wall!!!
In general, the public needs to be better informed about the issues and look beyond the empty platitudes and sound bites played on TV.
In the War on Drugs the USA has just got nuked with a ballistic bong.
To All you "RELIGOUS" Bull shiters! If your "god" is the "Great" creator of all things!! Why is Marijuana so comdemded!?! BOOZE, PHARMACEUTICAL, and (OPIOIDS) are man made Drugs Are ok. But the plant made by your so called "god" is against the law!?!? ARE YOU TRULY "CHRISTIANS". A BELIEVER OF WHAT YOUR "GOD" Created, Or just bullshiters!?!?!
DRUGS, and BOOZE that are made by man!!!! Natural drugs are by your so called "god"!?!
It was created by your "god", but yet….you have condemned your so called "god" for It's creation!! HYPOCRITES!!!!!!
Make it a health problem, not a criminal one. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Why the hell should non weed smokers have to put up with funky weed smoke? Medical marijuana isn't so much a problem for me (as long as I don't have to inhale or smell the fumes), it's the dope with the THC along with the smell & pollution that I oppose. As a former weed & cigarette smoker who KNOWS the cons of weed & smoking period, as well as a cancer survivor; I am totally offended that I (& others opposed to smoking in my/our environment; especially around children) am currently imposed upon by smokers! I am also well aware of the gross inequities in "drug" sentencing with the most unbalanced heavy fines & jail terms impacting the Black & brown communities. I don't see common sense legislation being informed by good science & sound data prior to nationwide political open arms driven by a hunger for filling budget deficits & supplemental tax dollars, generated by a national governmental acceptance of cannabis. The equal decriminalization of cannabis use across the nation as well as an equitable & standardization of penalties & sentencing must be implemented BEFORE federal acceptance of cannabis.
Keeping these people in prison gives the system a super cheap work force there is no conscionable reasom to keep them in prisoners
Yes legalize weeds in ALL 50 states 👍🌈✌👊😃💃💃
If they broke the law they broke the law. I don't see them going out and refunding money collected in fines in the past to people when they can get traffic laws. Or going after people when a law is against something that was legal in the past but isn't now? I can see easing required parole conditions and allowing more reduction of time served for good behavior.
Cheers from Canada
Full legalization and pardon for all weed-only convictions with records wiped! Free them all!
Yep, everyone that were convicted violent or not cause even if you were violent you have also served your time too. So. At least since its leagal give them a chance to do the right way. The worst hit communities should at least have fair shake at redemption. Otherwise all those victims died for nothing, sacrificed for nothing, families broken for nothing now. America needs to right its wrongs. And not in some shitty way where you are set up to fail either. Since our slave prisons are supposed to be about rehabilitation.
You couldn't have said it better better Sir. Damn you almost made me cry. Like and share
Breaking
Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database
Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.
Just goes to show that there is no such thing as “justice”.
True and exact
AND YOU WONDER WHY THE WORLD HATES YOU.
Can you say Prison Industrial Complex?
After being a smoker of cannabis for more than half a century, the only harm it's done was my criminal record.
You are always spot on, Jesse and team, and bring up subjects no one else does. Many years ago I was reading this section of our local newspaper that gave little snippets of information about guilty verdicts and the sentence given. There were three of them that day. One was for a man accused of raping a 7-year-old. That's the term they used. Rape. Another was for a burglary of a house where nobody was home. And the third was about a man who got busted with an OUNCE of marijuana. Guess who had the longest sentence? The guy with the weed. The scumbag rapist got 7 years, the burglar got 5, but the man with only one OUNCE of weed got TEN FREAKIN' YEARS! Of course, this was in the 70's but still.
Make weed legal, period. Anyone who gets busted for simple procession of some other drugs gets mandated treatment, not jail. Pardon anyone busted for weed, ever, and they get their records expunged. Period. Just do this stuff now, and stop screwing people who can't afford a lawyer, or who were broken financially by being busted with a pound, or whatever big potheads can smoke in 3 months these days. How about it? I thought prisons were overcrowded, or is the money for keeping people locked up for something that's now legal, just too good?
Decriminalization is not the only problem. If Illinois goes legal what is to stop my employer from still firing me over failing a random drug test even though I am not high at all when the sample is taken? How is it that I can loose my job for doing nothing wrong or illegal on a Friday or Saturday night on my own time? It can't be a "half baked" promise to decriminalize and then let others pass down judgement and punishment on innocent people. There are lots of real questions that have to be asked and real answers given in return.
Great discussion to have, we’re having the same dilemma in my country. Most accept what we are doing now doesn’t work which is prohibition and everything that comes with it. We’re having a public referendum on the decriminalisation but what does that actually look like? That’s the details we’re missing and to date no real position or solution given by any political party. All we’re left with is advise from advocacy groups from each side of the argument who tend to stray to the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum. I’m sure the answer lies somewhere in the middle but no political party is taking the lead apart from let’s have a referendum, if I was being cynical about it I’d say they’re waiting to see if it wins or loses votes over what’s the right moral & ethical thing to do. We don’t yet have the facts for what we’re being asked to vote on.
When I first heard of ex post facto law I thought it was unfair. I still do but that's how the law "works".
Jesse, you have 105+K subscribers, many of whom are black. It's been verified that the war on drugs was a war on black people. Weed being the drug of choice by cops to lock up blacks. I listened to this commentary three times. Is there a reason why you didn't say "black" once? Are we hated so much that even if your intention would help us, you just can't say "correction of this injustice would go along way to, for once in American history, do right by blacks!" Just an observation.🤕
Just run a SQL query on the prison records or court records. That'll tell you who's eligible for release pretty quick
Yep it's all about the MARY JANE.
Immature.
Just cop to using.
Legalize
46 billion in CO. but can't touch it ….
Grow up, CO. has best blue print.
Just do it.
Prisoners definitely need to be released. Congress should make this mandatory by federal law.
The war on drugs doesn't work anymore than Prohibition did.
Portugal realized this after fighting their losing battle with war on drugs and legalized drug use (with restrictions) and decriminalized addicts.
Taxpayers money went from paying to imprison people to offer free rehab along with other services and was less expensive for taxpayers.
EU strongly advised Portugal not to change their laws and said their addiction rate would increase along with crimes. EU was wrong.
Within less than 10 years, addiction rate significantly dropped and new addiction rates practically nil and also crimes associated with drugs.
Research Portugal.
Organized crime didn't want to loose out on that money !
Don't you just love the US legal system. One law for the rich and the poor can go fuck themselves..In Europe these so called criminals for low level possession get a street warning and never set a foot in prison. You know the civilized countries..
And yet, the RepubliCan'ts are addicted to something far worse than this – the BS of the Fox News Network/ Sinclair Broadcasting complex!
Subscribed after this, wish everyone felt the same.
I saw an add featuring John Boehner, talking about the booming bud business…
The weed problem is that I no longer have the right to vote for being caught with it 12 years ago.
Legalize marijuana but make it a crime to drive while impaired and no smoking while operating a motor vehicle. DWI Driving while impaired.
Word!
DemCorp has a problem with marijuana, Bernie, Tulsi, and Yang do not.
Thank you for addressing this important issue.
Build that wall!!!
In general, the public needs to be better informed about the issues and look beyond the empty platitudes and sound bites played on TV.
In the War on Drugs the USA has just got nuked with a ballistic bong.
To All you "RELIGOUS"
Bull shiters!
If your "god" is the "Great" creator of all things!! Why is Marijuana so comdemded!?!
BOOZE, PHARMACEUTICAL, and (OPIOIDS) are
man made Drugs Are ok.
But the plant made by your so called "god" is against the law!?!?
ARE YOU TRULY "CHRISTIANS".
A BELIEVER OF WHAT YOUR "GOD" Created,
Or just bullshiters!?!?!
DRUGS, and BOOZE that are made by man!!!!
Natural drugs are by your so called "god"!?!
It was created by your "god", but yet….you have condemned your so called "god" for It's creation!!
HYPOCRITES!!!!!!
Make it a health problem, not a criminal one. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Why the hell should non weed smokers have to put up with funky weed smoke? Medical marijuana isn't so much a problem for me (as long as I don't have to inhale or smell the fumes), it's the dope with the THC along with the smell & pollution that I oppose. As a former weed & cigarette smoker who KNOWS the cons of weed & smoking period, as well as a cancer survivor; I am totally offended that I (& others opposed to smoking in my/our environment; especially around children) am currently imposed upon by smokers! I am also well aware of the gross inequities in "drug" sentencing with the most unbalanced heavy fines & jail terms impacting the Black & brown communities. I don't see common sense legislation being informed by good science & sound data
prior to nationwide political open arms driven by a hunger for filling budget deficits & supplemental tax dollars, generated by a national governmental acceptance of cannabis. The equal decriminalization of cannabis
use across the nation as well as an equitable & standardization of penalties & sentencing must be implemented BEFORE federal acceptance of cannabis.
Keeping these people in prison gives the system a super cheap work force there is no conscionable reasom to keep them in prisoners
Yes legalize weeds in ALL 50 states 👍🌈✌👊😃💃💃
If they broke the law they broke the law.
I don't see them going out and refunding money collected in fines in the past to people when they can get traffic laws. Or going after people when a law is against something that was legal in the past but isn't now?
I can see easing required parole conditions and allowing more reduction of time served for good behavior.
Cheers from Canada
Full legalization and pardon for all weed-only convictions with records wiped!
Free them all!
Yep, everyone that were convicted violent or not cause even if you were violent you have also served your time too. So. At least since its leagal give them a chance to do the right way. The worst hit communities should at least have fair shake at redemption. Otherwise all those victims died for nothing, sacrificed for nothing, families broken for nothing now. America needs to right its wrongs. And not in some shitty way where you are set up to fail either. Since our slave prisons are supposed to be about rehabilitation.
You couldn't have said it better better Sir. Damn you almost made me cry. Like and share
Breaking
Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database
Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/investigations/Source-Leaked-Documents-Show-the-US-Government-Tracking-Journalists-and-Advocates-Through-a-Secret-Database-506783231.html
Just goes to show that there is no such thing as “justice”.
True and exact
AND YOU WONDER WHY THE WORLD HATES YOU.
Can you say Prison Industrial Complex?
After being a smoker of cannabis for more than half a century, the only harm it's done was my criminal record.
You are always spot on, Jesse and team, and bring up subjects no one else does. Many years ago I was reading this section of our local newspaper that gave little snippets of information about guilty verdicts and the sentence given. There were three of them that day. One was for a man accused of raping a 7-year-old. That's the term they used. Rape. Another was for a burglary of a house where nobody was home. And the third was about a man who got busted with an OUNCE of marijuana. Guess who had the longest sentence? The guy with the weed. The scumbag rapist got 7 years, the burglar got 5, but the man with only one OUNCE of weed got TEN FREAKIN' YEARS! Of course, this was in the 70's but still.
Make weed legal, period. Anyone who gets busted for simple procession of some other drugs gets mandated treatment, not jail. Pardon anyone busted for weed, ever, and they get their records expunged. Period. Just do this stuff now, and stop screwing people who can't afford a lawyer, or who were broken financially by being busted with a pound, or whatever big potheads can smoke in 3 months these days. How about it? I thought prisons were overcrowded, or is the money for keeping people locked up for something that's now legal, just too good?
Decriminalization is not the only problem.
If Illinois goes legal what is to stop my employer from still firing me over failing a random drug test even though I am not high at all when the sample is taken?
How is it that I can loose my job for doing nothing wrong or illegal on a Friday or Saturday night on my own time?
It can't be a "half baked" promise to decriminalize and then let others pass down judgement and punishment on innocent people.
There are lots of real questions that have to be asked and real answers given in return.
Great discussion to have, we’re having the same dilemma in my country. Most accept what we are doing now doesn’t work which is prohibition and everything that comes with it. We’re having a public referendum on the decriminalisation but what does that actually look like? That’s the details we’re missing and to date no real position or solution given by any political party. All we’re left with is advise from advocacy groups from each side of the argument who tend to stray to the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum. I’m sure the answer lies somewhere in the middle but no political party is taking the lead apart from let’s have a referendum, if I was being cynical about it I’d say they’re waiting to see if it wins or loses votes over what’s the right moral & ethical thing to do. We don’t yet have the facts for what we’re being asked to vote on.
When I first heard of ex post facto law I thought it was unfair. I still do but that's how the law "works".
Jesse, you have 105+K subscribers, many of whom are black. It's been verified that the war on drugs was a war on black people. Weed being the drug of choice by cops to lock up blacks.
I listened to this commentary three times.
Is there a reason why you didn't say "black" once? Are we hated so much that even if your intention would help us, you just can't say "correction of this injustice would go along way to, for once in American history, do right by blacks!"
Just an observation.🤕