re: #506 brookly red

and the selling of narcotics has wrecked millions, dealers belong in jail. the rock laws have nothing to do with pot.

They have to do with the subject of the failure of the War on Drugs, and drug laws that do more harm than good, and the Rockefeller laws do very little to stop the major dealers it was aimed at:

Enacted in 1973 under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the Rockefeller Drug Laws mandate extremely harsh mandatory minimum prison terms for the possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs. Supposedly intended to target major dealers (kingpins), most of the people incarcerated under these laws are convicted of low-level, nonviolent offenses, and many of them have no prior criminal records. As of 2008, approximately 14,000 people are locked up for drug offenses in New York State prisons, representing nearly 38% of the prison population and costing New Yorkers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

They’re a mess.