• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The police love drug criminalization because it gives them widespread latitude to hassle pretty much anybody they feel like whenever they feel like, because “drugs could be involved.” Marijuana especially, since stoners are generally fairly nonthreatening folks but “I smelled marijuana” is a zero-effort way to instantly manufacture a fictitious probable cause for anything.

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      10 months ago

      Rich corporations and people profit, everyone else is criminalized for reasons.