Comments on: “Criminal Justice, Civil Liberties Missing from 2012 Campaign”: Radley Balko http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/16/criminal-justice-civil-liberties-missing-from-2012-campaign-radley-balko/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 03:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ray Ingles http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/16/criminal-justice-civil-liberties-missing-from-2012-campaign-radley-balko/comment-page-1/#comment-77113 Ray Ingles Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:12:17 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=49410#comment-77113 Man do I hope that the propositions legalizing marijuana are passed in Colorado and Washington. Prohibition didn’t work, and neither has the ‘war on drugs’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline.gif

We don’t have gang wars over alcohol in Chicago anymore, and people don’t die or go blind from poisoned illegal alcohol. I honestly don’t understand why our nation hasn’t taken a lesson from that.

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