New York spends $75 million a year on marijuana arrests though it's not technically a crime

defendandprotect

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Wed Mar-16-11 09:38 AM
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New York spends $75 million a year on marijuana arrests though it's not technically a crime

New York spends $75 million a year on marijuana arrests though it's not technically a crime

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hifiguy

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Wed Mar-16-11 09:42 AM
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1. The police/prison industrial complex has to justify its

existence even if that means arresting and jailing people who have committed no crime. They have to do something to justify stopping everyone guilty of walking down the sidewalk while brown or freaky-looking. Lets the sheeple know who's boss, and it ain't us.

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Lindsay

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Wed Mar-16-11 09:49 AM
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2. Plus harassing hippies

and other low-life types is infinitely amusing to The Powers That Be. Kind of a win-win for them.

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