Jay Z: 'The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail'

"In 1971 when the war on drugs began we imprisoned 200,000 people. Today it is now over 2 million people."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/opinion/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html

Policy makers are joining advocates in demanding an end to biased policing and mass incarceration, and in November, Californians specifically have the opportunity to vote Yes on Prop 64, the most racial-justice-oriented marijuana legalization measure ever. Prop 64 would reduce (and in many cases eliminate) criminal penalties for marijuana offenses, and it's retroactive -- people sitting in prison for low-level marijuana offenses would be released and have their records expunged. In addition, Prop 64 would drive millions of dollars in direct funding and investments to those communities most harmed by the criminal justice system.


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[54 Points] travis-:

ya but what are ja rules thoughts


[11 Points] KigurumiCatBoomer:

How is this relevant to dark net markets?


[3 Points] None:

Prop 64

Yeah good luck with that...


[1 Points] None:

Tbh the title is what intrigued me. prop 64 well I don't live there but sure I'm all for it. Misleading post though, prop 64 shoulda been in the title.


[1 Points] None:

One small step at a time I suppose for logic. Yay


[1 Points] None:

Thanks for the shitpost


[-5 Points] hhayn:

I listened to this earlier this morning at work, it happened to come up on my Flip Board feed. It was awful. It sounded like a group of mediocre college kids (public high school grads, no doubt) had written a bunch of bullet points, with maybe two or three spots to add his own way hollow quips--all of which lacked a degree of substance by the way. These kids worked their ass off (cause it is hard being mediocre) for free, under some wet behind the ears class of 2016 copy editor, who did his best with what he had. Then Hov comes in to the the sound studio, is handed a packet of index cards and a pen. His agent explains where his talents are needed, and Jigga goes to work filling in his little mad libs quips as he's reading through it for the first time. Three minutes later, they're doing the first and only take of this gem of a monologue, which was read in complete monotony and with zero emotion or inflection.. It was nothing short of unbearable. He sounded like the almost pudgy dumb kid in grade school that sounds so fucking stupid when he reads that the teacher won't let people popcorn the next paragraph to him anymore. I would be mortified if I was Jay-Z and anyone released anything where I sounded like I could barely read.