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How to Cripple the Prison Industry
Drug War Injustices
We all know the bum rap recreational drugs have received in the United States and other countries. However, many governments are finally making the shift towards more progressive drug policies, treating use as a health matter rather than a criminal matter. There’s good reason for this. Take a short glance into some of the cases we’ve gathered here and you’ll understand why a shift has to be made. Too many families and lives have been torn by mandatory minimums and botched SWAT raids.
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Landmark Drug Case in Singapore
If there has ever been a sign pointing to the progress cannabis has made as a medicine in the eyes of the world, it can be found in Singapore. Singapore is one of the strictest countries in the world in terms of drug possession and trafficking sentencing. Defendants are imprisoned for excessive periods of time for what many countries consider minor possession offenses, often caned in addition to this, and, in the case of “traffickers,” put to death. However, as described in the article below, a recent offender was spared a trafficking conviction based on his lawyer being able to prove the man’s medical need for the drug.
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The Marihuana Conviction
The Marihuana Conviction, originally printed in 1974, details the comprehensive history of cannabis prohibition in the United States. The book is filled with unique imagery from newspapers and other various publications, many of these dating back to the 1930s. From them you can easily discern the bum rap cannabis was dealt (continues to be dealt, I might add) by the feds.
