Obama pardoned 46 drug dealers today

[big_tiger]

Gotta agree with you on this one. But maybe raise the penalties for operating machinery while on any of the newly legalized substances. Basically saying, you do what you want, but as soon as you put others in danger, its yo ass. Also the workplace can fire you with no questions asked, if you're coming to work messed up. Its probably already that way, but I know you'd have the new batch of morons thinking that because its now legal, they can do it whenever and wherever they want, totally screwing up whatever processes they want.

Sounds fair to me.

[TeeShock]

Just don't come around my kids and sure as hell don't offer them any.

Do you ever booze in front of them?

[Sgt Beavis]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Obama's only mistake is that he didn't go far enough.

My only concern for a mass release is that we could end up with a lot of black males on the street having a damn hard time finding a job. That could lead them right back to prison. They need to make sure they are ready to rejoin society and be on the road to making a decent living.

[dcs13]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Obama's only mistake is that he didn't go far enough.

My only concern for a mass release is that we could end up with a lot of black males on the street having a damn hard time finding a job. That could lead them right back to prison. They need to make sure they are ready to rejoin society and be on the road to making a decent living.

You are making too much sense.. The following is from that Chicago Cops blog...He sums it up as well as you did..


Hey BGA
See if you can do some real journalism and put these pieces together:
Rauner is looking to reduce prison population by 25% and gassing them isn't on the table, meaning he's going to release them back into society;
Cook County has been trying to do their part by releasing anyone and everyone back into society with low bails and reduced sentencing, to the point of violating state laws by sending ineligible people to Boot Camp;
CPD hasn't kept up with retirements for a decade now and we're 2,000 to 4,000 officers short of what we were when the 1990's were rolling along (depending on who's numbers you believe);
CPD is currently running a number of overtime initiatives in distressed areas of the city - the same areas that many of these newly freed prisoners will be returning to...areas already known to have a high number of open air drug markets, felons with self control problems, guns and daily violence as a matter of course;
the media fosters an anti-police attitude among the populace, even when such incidents are proven, time and again, to be illusory at best, lies at worst, even in the case of a mentally ill woman committing suicide.
Now go do some research and come up with something better than that piece of crap from the other day about how Chicago leads the nation in numbers of offenders killed by the police. It might actually look like you tried to be journalists.
SOURCE:

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1

[svauto-erotic855]

My only concern for a mass release is that we could end up with a lot of black males on the street having a damn hard time finding a job. That could lead them right back to prison. They need to make sure they are ready to rejoin society and be on the road to making a decent living.

They were never part of society in the first place and will just go back to doing what ever they were doing before they got locked up. That doesn't mean that we should not make ALL drugs legal by 10pm tonight; it just means that we will still have a young black male problem no matter what we do.

[Gasser64]

Do you ever booze in front of them?

Agree. Same exact thing. One drug just has a different mind altering affect than another, and that's about it. Sans the whole "health" argument, of course. Alcohol still even loses that one, vs Cannabis, Salvia, DMT, Magic mushrooms, and a whole host of other natural drugs. So it might be a moot point.

My only concern for a mass release is that we could end up with a lot of black males on the street having a damn hard time finding a job.

Isn't that how it already is now?

[Tremor14]

yep. i dont consider myself young these days, but you better watch out justin, you are the type to get singled out. try to lay low homey.