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Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition

posted by janrinok on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the jury-nullification dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

The Free Thought Project reports

When Colorado took the historic step of restoring freedom by legalizing the recreational use of cannabis, [Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt did a survey of] law enforcement agencies and district attorneys across Kansas.

[...] The results are in, and it's unwelcome news for drug war fanatics. According to The Kansas City Star:

"The amount of marijuana being confiscated appears to be dropping quickly...

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that the number of marijuana stops has gone down since marijuana was legalized in 2014. And the amount of marijuana seized has decreased by almost half." [...] "In some jurisdictions, law enforcement are no longer enforcing marijuana laws much, and even when they do, it has become difficult to win convictions. Users may receive a fine in one county, probation or jail in another, and told to move along in others.[...] "Some juries are refusing to hand out marijuana convictions [...] according to the district attorney in Labette County.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @12:10AM

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @12:10AM (#418775) Journal

    Jill Stein is economically illiterate. Her campaign promise to order the Federal Reserve (which the President can't do) to "use quantitative easing to erase all student debt" (which is impossible, an absurd thing to even say, and shows she knows nothing about what quantitative easing even is) sufficiently demonstrates this. Her economic policy proposals are basically Trump's wall, but for liberals.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:52AM (#418809)

    Hyperbole.
    Now, she isn't quite as savvy as Ellen Brown, who ran on the Green Party ticket for California State Treasurer (and got my vote).
    Ellen is a smart babe who knows how to save a state big bucks.
    She talks up The Bank of North Dakota every chance she gets and notes that THAT is the way to do things. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org]

    order the Federal Reserve (which the President can't do)

    Yeah, that cartel of PRIVATE bankers is something we should abolish.
    Go back to a PUBLIC Bank of the USA like we had before.

    quantitative easing

    Yeah, giving more money to the 1 Percent hasn't improved things so far.
    We should stop doing that.
    A better way would be to let the student loans default, have the gov't buy those up for pennies on the dollar, and sell them back to the students at that reduced cost.
    Let the banksters eat it.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]