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Originally Posted by Doors
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You'd be surprised how much money our country makes off the judicial system when it comes to busting and convicting drug offenders.
The parole fees, probation costs, pleading out - all of these mean big dollars for the U.S. government because they catch so many offenders with Marijuana. It's actually why Marijuana is listed as a higher class drug than Cocaine, so the legal fees and penalties generate more cash because they're more people using Marijuana than there are using Cocaine.
Also theres conspiracy theorists out there that speculate this is also a way of keeping African Americans down, as Cocaine is usually consumed by upper and middle class white Americans and Marijuana is consumed mostly by minorities of all kinds.
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I think the war on drugs is stupid, but you are wrong here.
Schedule I and Schedule II has nothing to do with how drugs arrests are treated. In fact you will find trivial amounts of marijuana usually lead to a fine as opposed to cocaine. Schedule I were listed as having no accepted medical use, schedule II were listed as having a high abuse risk but in some instances can have medical uses (think pain killers). While you can debate marijuana's placement in Schedule I. It doesn't mean Schedule II = x penalty, while Schedule I = x2 penalty.
As for the conspiracy theories.....white kids don't smoke pot? You're kidding me. Second you really think law makers sat around and said "yeah let's punish pot worse because only minorities do it, and let's let cocaine users get a free ride."