Those infamous 'carrier weight' LSD laws where the weight of what the single drop of LSD is on counts as part of the drug in calculating the sentencing. And it's not even the dumbest 'war on drugs' law in our arsenal of dumb 'war on drugs' laws.
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#12I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
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#13I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
This kind of thinking helps nothing. If you are outraged, push to change it. If you seriously think the best way to do that is to not vote for Hillary, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
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#14I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
This kind of thinking helps nothing. If you are outraged, push to change it. If you seriously think the best way to do that is to not vote for Hillary, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
You can not vote for Clinton and push to change drug laws, they're not mutually exclusive.
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#15I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
This kind of thinking helps nothing. If you are outraged, push to change it. If you seriously think the best way to do that is to not vote for Hillary, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
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#16I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
People's view evolve. It wasn't that long when vast majority of Americans were against gay marriage.
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#17This is only related in that it's another person incarcerated over LSD, but I've always found this individual and his story pretty fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/Skinner-Timeline.html The second link discusses Gordon Todd Skinner, who was the informant that facilitated the arrest of Pickard. I don't know how much of that information is accurate, bu…
It's so fascinating. Not to sound insensitive, but I've been waiting for a screenplay about this for a while...
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#18I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
This kind of thinking helps nothing. If you are outraged, push to change it. If you seriously think the best way to do that is to not vote for Hillary, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
I am outraged by the drug war, therefore I will not vote for a drug warrior. Not sure what else to say.
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#19I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
... and Trump, and any major party candidate for the past 75 years.
The unfortunate truth is that it's a democracy and the majority of the voting public still supports the drug war. That support in softening, but very slowly.
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#20I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.
Sounds like a good idea. If politicians were held accountable for their actions for their whole career, they might actively look for the long term better policies instead of blindly mirroring whatever nutty ideas their current round of voters want.