re: #285 Targetpractice

At this point, I think societal momentum is a large part of the resistance to legalization. The campaign against pot smoking has been going on so long that if it ended tomorrow, society wouldn’t know what to do with itself. And it would raise a big-ass fucking question of what to do about all those people doing a nickel, dime, or more behind bars for getting caught with a baggie that smelled like pot.

The pot-only crowd would get released over a period of a couple of months. The prison systems would have enough time to get the mechanism in place.

Most of the ones in for pot-AND-… will just have their sentences reduced.

The fun - the challenges - will come where the presence of pot was used as a reason for warrant, or where the additional charges were things like evading or resisting arrest, or where the AND was conspiracy to deal or something like that.

So ~5% out in a couple of months, and another ~10 to 15% out over the next couple of years.

The real fun comes from suits over property seizures.