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Mackenzie Nellis commented on the blog post Obama Has Proven to Be an Adamant Opponent of Marijuana Reform
This is another reason to ditch the Democratic Party and join the Justice Party! Check out their presidential candidate’s response to the marijuana question yesterday on the Rob Kall show:
“Rocky: Substance abuse should be considered a matter of public health, rather than a criminal justice matter. It’s ridiculous to arrest and put them through the criminal justice system for marijuana offenses. We saw the absurdity of prohibition of alcohol in our Nation’s history. Our approach to drugs is even worse in terms of how we’re going into other nations and trying to control things at the source. Our drug interdiction policies are draconian.”
Here is a measured response I can get behind. Marijuana has real health effects, but it’s nothing close the harm that comes from criminalizing it…check out the rest of his response:
“There’s a young man here in Utah who was arrested after three marijuana sales. The informant, after he reported these sales and was going to get his charges dismissed, added after his reporting was done that, “Oh yes! I remember now he had a gun with him.” So now there are three gun violations under minimum mandatory federal laws. State law wouldn’t have anything near this result, but the man ended up getting a 55-year sentence in the Federal Penitentiary. The judge said that he completely disagreed with it, found that it was very unjust, disproportionate to the offense; but that his hands were tied by Congress and he had to sentence this man to 55 years in the Federal Penitentiary. It has become absolutely insane in this country; this so-called war on drugs.”
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Mackenzie Nellis commented on the diary post Occupy in 2012 – What is the Way Forward? by athena1.
You should take a look at DemocracyNow!’s work on this…they have done quite a few good reports on government interference in lawful activism. It’s not paranoid…it’s just plain smart. I’m a little saddened, though, by the overwhelming sense that your piece gives that nothing can be done to help the Occupy agenda within the political [...]
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