Legalization

Title: Legalization
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 856 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Legalization

Legalization Have you ever been arrested for possession of marijuana? Last year there were more than 695,201 marijuana arrests in the United States. Of those arrests 87.2% were for possession - not for sale or manufacture of marijuana. There have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States since 1965. 12.7% of today’s overcrowded federal prison population is made up of people incarcerated for marijuana offenses, with an average sentence of about three to four years. Even with …showed first 75 words of 856 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 856 total…you think about it, how many people are killed because of drunk drivers? How many are killed because the driver was high? How many times have you heard of a man beating a woman because he had too much to drink? How many times have you heard of a man beating a woman because he had too much to smoke? That’s the questions I am still trying to find out. What do you think?

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