Doesn't that "you go to the slammer if you don't 1) turn in your child 2) testify against him" part bother you? It bothers me and I don't even live in that country. That is certainly an attack on freedom. It's not a very free place if there is a mandatory jail sentence for not snitching on your kids or the kid down the street that you heard might be selling pot.
Think about it... didn't you know of one guy who sold reefer (maybe even to you) back in the day? Do you think he deserved 10 years in jail for selling you that joint? And if he didn't sell it to you but you knew he was selling to someone else, did you snitch?
Captain -- I don't think some guy buying some reefer is going to tell you if he's been in drug rehab.
These mandatory sentences will do one thing for sure -- turn a lot of petty criminals into hardcore criminals. They will do nothing about the drug problem. Maybe even make it worse in the long run. Locking up ever more scores of people obviously doesn't work.
The hysteria over marijuana is just mindbuggering.
This will not work.
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