While last night was disappointing, lets take comfort in the fact - TopicsExpress



          

While last night was disappointing, lets take comfort in the fact that by legalizing cannabis, voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington D.C. did something that our representatives in Washington--both Democrats and Republicans--have so stubbornly avoided. Lets take comfort in the fact that California voted to reduce a number of nonviolent drug and property felonies to misdemeanors, a downward shift in punitiveness in the state that pioneered three strikes. Through direct democracy, these states made a collective statement that they are tired of a failed Drug War, tired of conscienceless legislators who choose symbolic politics and racial fear over harm reduction and tired of locking up hundreds of thousands of nonviolent human beings in privately-run prisons. Lets hope its a harbinger of things to come.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:44:49 +0000

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