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Drug Policy

RainDog

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8. thanks

Reply to think (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 04:30 PM

Feb 2012

this graph reminds me of Michael Moore's Roger & Me. He talked about people in Flint, MI, after the auto industry collapsed and how some of them got jobs as prison guards and some of them became their prisoners.

Not the kind of economic stimulus a civil society would choose, it seems to me.

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Why does the DOJ hate our freedom? think Feb 2012 #1

Pot policy bongbong Feb 2012 #2

+1 "The war on Drugs. Keeping prisons full since 1971" think Feb 2012 #3

wow RainDog Feb 2012 #6

It's the Wikipedia entry for "War on Drugs": think Feb 2012 #7

thanks RainDog Feb 2012 #8

U.S. Attorney Oberly is a Democrat and an Obama appointee.. Upton Feb 2012 #4

I had him for a class at Univ. Del. back in the late 80s. the other one Feb 2012 #5

Wait, what? eggplant Feb 2012 #9

Oh come on. You know they are guilty. They wouldn't be in court if they weren't. And defense uppityperson Feb 2012 #11

Here's hoping you never need one! countryjake Feb 2012 #10

The only professional service to which you have a constitutional right jberryhill Feb 2012 #13

LOL. So, defense attorneys should take on as clients only those people that they themselves PA Democrat Feb 2012 #15

Where are all the folks who usually chime in on these threads . . . markpkessinger Feb 2012 #12

There is clearly no doubt... CanSocDem Feb 2012 #14