BF2S Forums Offical Marijuana Thread

GodFather wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Be sure to let us know when you start feeling suicidal and that life is meaningless.

lol did i miss something

DonFck wrote:

Czech Govt Allows 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010

Hope the rest of Europe will follow suit with what Portugal, Czech Rep., NL etc. have done. Even if you don't smoke weed, this would be good; think of all the freed resources available for fighting real crime.

So I have been doing some math homework. The numbers should raise some suspicions among most average intelligent citizens.

"It's a pretty large number, in the sense that, certainly, in the federal system, about one out of every six federal inmates is in federal prison for marijuana. That's a very large number. There are more people now in federal prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses. Out of the 1.1 million people in American prisons, the marijuana offenders are not the majority. But there are a lot of them. And certainly, at a time when there's a shortage of prison space and when murderers are serving on average about six years in prison, it seems absurd to have non-violent marijuana offenders locked up in those large numbers."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline … osser.html


"As of year-end 2007, a record 7.2 million people were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, with 2.3 million of those actually incarcerated."


"While cost varies from state to state, in 2005, the average cost of incarceration per prisoner in the United States was $23,876,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarcerat … arceration


7,200,000 * (1/6) * $24,000 = $28,800,000,000



"The table below shows the average sentence (mean and median) imposed on Federal prisoners for various offenses in 2000."

Drug Felonies     75.6 months       55.0 months

http://skeptically.org/recdrugs/id8.html

$24,000 * 4.58 =  $109,920 per marijuana offender.

Unfortunately many people don't have the mental capacity to understand our arguments. Math however is a universal number. I would think most people would definitely rethink their position of they saw this. We are a greedy society and money does make the world go around. I also think that the money tied into the prison/ law enforcement/ alcohol industry is our greatest opposition. If people could just see these numbers and understand the amount that they are lied to through targeted and carefully crafted propaganda the nation of freedom might root for freedom once again.

I don't know where the U.S. gets their statistics that they spend 12 billion a year on the drug war, but if that is separate from the cost of incarceration. We are probably looking at 35 to 40 Billion a year to go after marijuana users. With the economy in the toilet this argument might have a chance of gaining  a lot of listeners.  Who's smoking now to ignore these numbers. 35 Billion for weed a far safer drug than alcohol, prescription drugs, and tobacco. INSANE.


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Last edited by Wreckognize (2009-12-18 12:45:08)

burnzz wrote:

i think that explains the capslock thing . . .

burnzz wrote:

he's too stoned to figure out bb code. so i guess that explains the caps lock for emphasis.