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<blockquote data-quote="Raoul Duke" data-source="post: 2306215" data-attributes="member: 27529"><p><a href="http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A64539" target="_blank">http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A64539</a></p><p></p><p><em>Finally, Oklahoma's harsh marijuana laws are costing the state dearly -- millions of taxpayers' dollars that could be spent on education, mental health care, highways and other vital services are instead wasted on a bloated prison industrial complex.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>According to the ACLU study, Oklahoma spent $30 million in 2010 alone enforcing marijuana laws. Nationally, the amount was a staggering $3.61 billion.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Yet, according to the Marijuana Policy Project's Chris Lindsey, "There's very little in the way of statistics that show that increasing penalties for possession of marijuana have any effect on the frequency of use in the state.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"I doubt that somebody that's making a purchase on the underground is thinking, 'if I get caught with this, here's penalties I face,'" he said during a recent interview on Oklahoma City's KTLV radio. "If the point is to change people's behavior, it's a failure."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>It's bewildering, Lindsey argues, that authorities "spend so much time going after a drug that many Americans now believe should be regulated like alcohol."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Not just Americans in blue states like Washington and Colorado, but also in fire-engine red, ultra-conservative Oklahoma.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Think about this: Nearly six in 10 SoonerPoll respondents favor making possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a civil infraction.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raoul Duke, post: 2306215, member: 27529"] [URL="http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A64539"]http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A64539[/URL] [I]Finally, Oklahoma's harsh marijuana laws are costing the state dearly -- millions of taxpayers' dollars that could be spent on education, mental health care, highways and other vital services are instead wasted on a bloated prison industrial complex. According to the ACLU study, Oklahoma spent $30 million in 2010 alone enforcing marijuana laws. Nationally, the amount was a staggering $3.61 billion. Yet, according to the Marijuana Policy Project's Chris Lindsey, "There's very little in the way of statistics that show that increasing penalties for possession of marijuana have any effect on the frequency of use in the state. "I doubt that somebody that's making a purchase on the underground is thinking, 'if I get caught with this, here's penalties I face,'" he said during a recent interview on Oklahoma City's KTLV radio. "If the point is to change people's behavior, it's a failure." It's bewildering, Lindsey argues, that authorities "spend so much time going after a drug that many Americans now believe should be regulated like alcohol." Not just Americans in blue states like Washington and Colorado, but also in fire-engine red, ultra-conservative Oklahoma. Think about this: Nearly six in 10 SoonerPoll respondents favor making possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a civil infraction.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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