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Nevernose

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24. Maybe if they just decriminalized drugs

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 08:54 PM

Feb 2014

It would go a big step in the right direction. We could refocus the resources spent on undercover cops, informants, incarceration, helicopters, drug dogs, high seas interdictments, cash payments to every country in a South America, lawyers, courts, parole and probation, and god knows what else to treatment and education.

If someone wants to use drugs, they're going to use drugs. With all that shit I just listed, drugs are cheaper and more plentiful than at any time in almost a hundred years.

Incarceration -- the drug war itself -- has ruined far more lives and ruined far more communities than the actual drugs have, and this article is a case in point.

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The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN [View all] Triana Feb 2014 OP

Some of the worse abusers of food stamps indirectly is the Walton family. Thinkingabout Feb 2014 #1

this is using people in an ugly way. cali Feb 2014 #2

+1 MMcGuire Feb 2014 #5

Isn't it ironic? Beacool Feb 2014 #3

It isn't exactly bluer than blue here rbrnmw Feb 2014 #4

Because they blame those "other" people for causing the problems that put the white man in the okaawhatever Feb 2014 #12

it's religion here and some of them just hate everybody rbrnmw Feb 2014 #13

or "look like them" for that matter... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #27

And they will continue to vote against ... butterfly77 Feb 2014 #14

Those photos reek of poverty tourism. LeftyMom Feb 2014 #6

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #7

I think the lead photo is a stock photo. I don't know about the one with the girl in the dress. nt okaawhatever Feb 2014 #18

And Sen. Rand Paul recently asked "anyone ever get a job from a poor person?" JaneyVee Feb 2014 #8

Perfect response. Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #20

Given the headline it is odd there is nothing in the article about food stamp usage. former9thward Feb 2014 #9

From skeptic.com: okaawhatever Feb 2014 #15

Actually no. former9thward Feb 2014 #17

Your correct, I should have said very Republican states. Because the post mentioned that okaawhatever Feb 2014 #19

Well there is no "south side of Chicago." former9thward Feb 2014 #22

I don't understand what you're saying. You'd like to see the percents of the various cities. okaawhatever Feb 2014 #25

Having lived in the city of Chicago I know that vast areas of the south side are poor. former9thward Feb 2014 #26

I think the post was more about rebutting a common claim from the Republicans. When you have a okaawhatever Feb 2014 #30

The issue is they are using poor people and twisting, at best, facts joeglow3 Feb 2014 #28

This just shows it's more about economic class than race. brush Feb 2014 #10

The party of shame. n/t Orsino Feb 2014 #11

To be fair rbrnmw Feb 2014 #16

In a republicon area where their reps vote against Cha Feb 2014 #21

They are told it's all President Obama's fault rbrnmw Feb 2014 #23

that's true.. brainwashed suckers Cha Feb 2014 #29

Maybe if they just decriminalized drugs Nevernose Feb 2014 #24