USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump

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 * Share links: Life and life for pot. See also: Number of marijuana prisoners in the USA. And: People in prisons and jails in the USA for drug-related crime. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. And: Drug War, mandatory minimum sentencing, handguns.

The Appalling Absurdity of Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentences. September 2, 2016 by Tim Baker. "3,278 prisoners serving life without the possibility of parole [LWOP] . Seventy-nine out of every 100 of these inmates is behind bars for a non-violent, drug-related offence. ... A homeless man who acted as go-between in the sale of two miniscule bags of cannabis (worth $20 total) to an undercover cop, Winslow was sentenced to LWOP based on other 'strikes' that were 14 and 24 years old, respectively. The dealer in the transaction, who was also identified by the undercover officer, was never charged."




 * Aldous Huxley - Wikiquote. "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." From: The Olive Tree. (1936)..

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