Couldn’t agree more. We saw the same thing in Ferguson- yeah, a cop shot this kid multiple times without any real provocation, but he was a bad person beforehand and other such nonsense! Irrelevant. What someone did to get the police called on them, to get themselves put in jail, that shouldn’t matter. No one should…

This plus the executions (including reports of one of the executed not being properly sedated before killed) just exemplifies how backwards and inhumane this country is with respect to its treatment of prisoners.

Hmm, I don’t actually know if it constitutes torture. What say we subject Sheriff David Clarke and the prison guards to the same treatment, and see if it kills them too?

The reason no one mentions the dead man’s crimes is that they are irrelevant to the way he was treated while in custody. 

And we are one step closer to Wenger saving his job and Arsenal getting relegated next season.

But in the meantime it is still a law and breaking that law for recreational use is a choice.

PlatinumDoor has never driven a mile over the speed limit in their life. Didn’t have a drink before legal age, or poured paint down the drain, or failed to disclose the $20 they get from grandma in their birthday to the IRS. Staying on the right side of the law is easy. Just don’t do illegal things.*

Libertarian gives weak-ass support for freedom as a concept, while getting real butthurt over some personal insults. News at 11.

This is sometimes exactly the case.

•Drug test those on welfare laws have accidentally shown those on welfare are less likely to use illegal drugs than those not.

•Many people choose legal alcohol over illegal drugs, places that have legalized pot have seen a decrease in alcohol related deaths. In fact ‘legal’ has no…

You do realize you don’t have to actually consume drugs to be arrested? Brown kid sells someone weed to some prep school kids so he can help at home - guess who’s going to jail? Before decriminalization in DC which Jason “the quitter” Chafftez from Utah tried to derail) the rate of routine pot use amongst whites and…

There are a number of problems with your solution.

1.) Most addicts become addicted before the age of 25, so their brains aren’t even fully developed yet. Try reasoning with a teenager or twenty-something, it doesn’t work. I don’t know if it varies from state to state, but I can remember being bombarded with drug…

I would say not sending people to prison for recreational drug use helps them more than one iota. There is a lot wrong with the illicit drug industry, but sending people who aren’t “criminal scumbags” to prison doesn’t magically solve the problem. People who misuse and abuse drugs need TREATMENT, not prison.

Yes, but one point is it’s not an equal choice for all groups of people. Many people use substances as self-medication because they’ve been traumatized, for example. And who is more likely to be traumatized? People who are poor and live in dense, urban housing. It’s interesting that you say people can just move to a…

It’s not an unpopular opinion. It’s a ridiculous oversimplification.

I went and looked, based on your comment, and found this:

A majority of Americans at some point use illegal drugs, though. “Move somewhere it is already in use” is what rich people do already do. And if you’re referring to weed, that would be out of the country from a federal perspective which isn’t feasible to some of the most vulnerable populations not to mention many sick…

No. People can’t not do illegal drugs. And having an unpopular opinion doesn’t automatically make you some ultra-rational speaker of plain truths. Sometimes opinions are unpopular because their fucking stupid, and holding them just makes you a naive idiot. 

In how white and black people are treated differently when they use it... no.

Heroin can be more dangerous than pot, but often it’s way way more dangerous than pot, specifically because of the drug war. A safe injection site that stocks things like Naloxone and has counselors on hand would greatly reduce death and harm…

Even comparing weed to weed across race, black people are still far more likely to be arrested for it.