the problem here is our prison system, not the idea of sentencing people to it

You can't punish someone after they've finished serving their sentence

the prison system wouldn't be so damn bad if we didn't sentence people for victimless crimes, for starters

and I am very much in support of the Blackstone Formulation

Depends on what you mean by victimless crimes

weed bro

fuck it, let em kill themselves with cocaine if they want

Weed buying is legal

depends on the state

Cocaine buying funds cartels

And the worst crimes imagineable

cartels are entirely dependent on illegal products

That's a common Trope I'm tired of hearing. The overwhelming majority of those kept in high security penitentiaries are the violent dregs of humanity. The existence of jails and prisons does not dilute the depth of their crimes.

Make cocaine legal, but selling it to kids or doing anything illegal while under influence is a guillotine sentence

The cartels in Portugal still make plenty of money

And Portugal decriminalized narcotics

"high-security" being the key word here

Portugal has a shit market

Portugal stopped being an economic power the moment spices stopped being expensive

What has to happen is legit businessess have to take over the cartel's market share

Much like bringing up the < 2% of abortions that result from rape, bringing up non-violent offenders is a cop-out to the actual argument. Which in this case, happens to be rapists that manage to be arrested rather than killed.

??

I said "victimless" not "non-violent"

Define it then, as I'm guessing it refers to the hyper-fucking-minority of prisoners.

nope, quite a large number

weed

Most shoplifters get fined

for example

Not atrested

You don't get dealt hard time for a "victimless" crime.

yes you do, dealing drugs gets you *a lot* of time

And there's a difference between arrested and convicted

Weed smoking is just something niggers prattle on about to distract from them all being criminals

Eg someone can be arrested and not convicted, or convicted and not arrested

@Lucienne d'Anwyl "alt-right now supports weed"

If you get caught with weed in ur car

That's basically dui

listen

Which is far from victimless

the shittiest people in society are most likely to smoke weed

if it keeps them docile