▲ 80 ▼ Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market (www.propublica.org) submitted 2 years ago by nulluser@programming.dev to c/world@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Volkditty@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just fucking legalize it already. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 child) too bad both presidential candidates are old and conservative and Biden is Religious with a prosecutor for a vice president to boot who has backtracked on most of his campaign promises including his ones on cannabis which he did on day one of his presidency legalization is decades away and with states and Native Americans legalizing the trouble for citizens will only get worse there are already border patrol style policing going on at the borders of legal states, cities that are half recreational and or medical and half illegal, and thousands left imprisoned that is yet another failed promise wrangling in the police even going as far as turning a blind eye to cop city already a shit show and just going to get worse permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How is trouble for states and reservations going to get worse? Every year more nonviolent drug offenders are released. Not enough of them are being released but a token amount. There's no legislation coming down the pipe to increase penalties for minor users and already delta-9 is legal and freely sold. Where are you getting your data? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12270 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) cops are still arresting people permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It's still bad. But it's not yet getting worse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 child) too bad both presidential candidates are old and conservative and Biden is Religious with a prosecutor for a vice president to boot who has backtracked on most of his campaign promises including his ones on cannabis which he did on day one of his presidency legalization is decades away and with states and Native Americans legalizing the trouble for citizens will only get worse there are already border patrol style policing going on at the borders of legal states, cities that are half recreational and or medical and half illegal, and thousands left imprisoned that is yet another failed promise wrangling in the police even going as far as turning a blind eye to cop city already a shit show and just going to get worse permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How is trouble for states and reservations going to get worse? Every year more nonviolent drug offenders are released. Not enough of them are being released but a token amount. There's no legislation coming down the pipe to increase penalties for minor users and already delta-9 is legal and freely sold. Where are you getting your data? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12270 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) cops are still arresting people permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It's still bad. But it's not yet getting worse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How is trouble for states and reservations going to get worse? Every year more nonviolent drug offenders are released. Not enough of them are being released but a token amount. There's no legislation coming down the pipe to increase penalties for minor users and already delta-9 is legal and freely sold. Where are you getting your data? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12270 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) cops are still arresting people permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It's still bad. But it's not yet getting worse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) cops are still arresting people permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It's still bad. But it's not yet getting worse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It's still bad. But it's not yet getting worse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cop City Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops Corporations using prison labor More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people's social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public's (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?) a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more barely leave just for the grocery store anymore it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads fucking dystopian horror show like out there permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn't even mention it. However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there's nothing to support that claim. What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level. Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we'll be discounted outright. Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Fucking fantastic. I gotta block more news before I lose it JFC. permalink fedilink source
[–] fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (2 children) What an awfully dramatized article. I fucking hate modern "journalism." permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) ProPublica is an independent nonprofit news organization with a long track record of high quality investigative journalism...so, they might be marginally more credible than random Lemmy users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zess@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Yeah why am I reading some person's Triad fanfic permalink fedilink source parent
[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) ProPublica is an independent nonprofit news organization with a long track record of high quality investigative journalism...so, they might be marginally more credible than random Lemmy users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zess@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Yeah why am I reading some person's Triad fanfic permalink fedilink source parent
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