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Originally Posted by N-E-B
I do, however, think that criminal records should remain intact after legalization, the reason being that those people knowingly made a choice to go against the law, unlike the homosexuality analogy used earlier in which those people were imprisoned over something they had no control over.
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Even for simple possession? What does that accomplish? You waste taxpayer money keeping an otherwise regular citizen behind bars. Prison is meant to rehabilitate, educate, and serve as a debt payment to society. When weed is legal, there is no longer any need to rehabilitate, educate, and society gains nothing by paying to feed and house these people
Smokers and small time dealers need to have their records expunged. When you move up to trafficking is where I would agree to make them serve their time, as that indicates membership in a larger criminal enterprise