Obama was LYING all along about prosecuting MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

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NJ5 said:

spurgeonryan said:
Other than the horrible problems in Mexico which is worse than the Iraq war, I could care less about the marijuana thing, and want the lawmakers to worry more about the country being a country thing.

Actually you should care quite a lot about the war on drugs, because it's doing several really bad things to the country:

- turning the US into the country with the most prisoners per capita ever. (for example, the US has more prisoners than China despite having a population 4 times smaller).

- wasting money on the war on drugs itself.

- wasting police time.

Mostly true.  I wouldn't QUITE buy the Chinese example though.  The US has more RECORDED prisoners.

Harsher sentencing has a lot to do with this too I think when you consider a lot of places actually have more crime per capita like the UK.