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Old 07-22-2009, 01:09 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
As if no one saw this coming.

I have the solution to all of our problems. Making drugs legal isn't the answer. Keep them illegal, and instead of putting people in jail and teaching them how to toss the salad (which costs us money), fine them with stiff fines. Why pay to put them in an over crowded prison when we can turn them all into profit?
I think the potential problem you can get with that is that the cost of finding these people and fining them will be greater than the fines they will pay. I guess you could make the fines enormous, but then you would have judges throwing out the fines or reducing them. If some poor bastard got caught with a couple joints and hit with a 5K fine he could argue that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
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