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Cannabis

no_hypocrisy

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2. It's not about weed as much as it's about keeping private prisons profitable.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:37 AM

Jan 2018

(Please excuse the alliteration.)

Obviously without enough federal convictions to keep the private prisons occupied, more enforcement of established "crimes" is the only answer to subsidize these endeavors.

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