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Growing Interest In Puerto Rico To Legalize Pot

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Puerto Rico is thinking of new change. The main concern for the legalization of marijuana is to free the prisons which is overflowing with Marijuana charges. About 24 percent of the island’s 13,500 inmates have been convicted on drug charges, and an estimated 80 percent of crimes are drug-related, according to the Department of Corrections.

“The fight against drugs, using punishment, has not worked,” said Jos Manuel Saldaa, former president of the University of Puerto Rico. “This is a social reality.” People should not go to jail for smoking pot, he said. Too many young adults become criminals in prison and also risk contracting hepatitis and AIDS while there, Saldana and Vazquez said.

The states can learn a lot from Puerto rico, The drug war is just to costly with almost no result. The question remains: Are we winning the war on drugs? Read the full story Here with details!
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4 responses // Growing Interest In Puerto Rico To Legalize Pot

  • I'm glad there are people using logic to gauge the effectiveness of drug policy rather than Ashcroft-era propaganda. There is no such phenomenon called "Reefer Madness"! just Reefer Laziness. And Americans don't need pot to make them lazy, we do that well enough with alcohol, fast food and 1000 channels of cable TV.
    CicatrizJCP
  • Change is needed, Smoking pot should be legalized but have restrictions. To many people are in jail for Marijuana, put the real criminals in jail not some kid for having some pot on him.
    punkrockmomma
  • we need more countries with legalized pot.
    xplayhousex
  • it would also give them a big tourism boost
    riverdeer

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