Originally Posted By: 1bighog
 Originally Posted By: Dave Vedder
I'm with Vince on this one,. Busting marijuana buyers and sellers is a waste of time and money, plus it plugs up prisons. How about a focus on a real problem like meth?


Plugs up prisons? Really? Nationwide .7% of inmates are in on marijuana possession only. .3% are first timers busted for marijuana only. .3%! hardly a plugging. This is nationwide. I couldnt find stats for Wa. but it would have to be less than that. My experience would tell me that the majority of that .3% is happening in the south and not anywhere on the left coast.

If you are arrested for being in possession of less than 40g in Wa. you are never going to see the inside of a prison. Maybe a day or two after the third or fourth arrest. If you get busted three or four times, you are an idiot and have killed way to many brain cells already and should stop smoking.


So that makes 1% of inmates in prison because of marijuana? Assuming that those facts are true, that is hardly a problem...