Not everything has ulterior motives.

sometimes a good thing is a good thing without any hidden meaning whatsoever.

I.E.-this is a good thing.

Or would one prefer the draconian Rockerfeller drug laws continue?



When one gets a parking ticket, do you think that priors are not looked for?

Sheesh, they caught the Son of Sam just that way.

"Last year, black New Yorkers were seven times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession and no more serious crime. Latinos were four times more likely.

In 2001, during his first campaign for mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg was asked by New York magazine if he had ever used marijuana. “You bet I did,” he replied. “And I enjoyed it.”

He enjoyed it! But still:
"During Mr. Bloomberg’s first two terms in office, the lowest-level marijuana arrests were up, on average, by 50 percent over when his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, was in office. Last year, Professor Levine said, the city made 40,300 such arrests — about 12 percent of arrests for all crimes.
Of these, 87 percent were of blacks or Latinos."

Yeah, sometimes is just is, as in this is a racist policy, it just is.

Would you rather it back in Giuliani's time, to have time spent shooting innocent people 41 or 50 times?

Which way do you wish to recallibrate it?

I doubt you would want Giuliani back, but you brought his name into the conversation.

It seems stupid to me that so much law enforcement effort is spent on busting people for pot.

I worked as a a paralegal at a largely female law firm and most of the younger professional, successful and bright attorneys were cannabis smokers. Much better to relax after a stress-filled 16-hour day with weed than alcohol, and no chance you'll go to work hung over the next day hung over and screw things up for your clients.