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Re:Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job ... by wyager on Sunday September 06, 2015 @01:52PM (#10178397)
Drugs have historically been illegal because the population had a moral objection to them, not because of some shady profiteering cabal. People have been criminalizing drug use (with alcohol being the most common target) for a very long time.

Non-violent crimes have been a concept long before someone stood to make money off them. (Of course, that doesn't imply that they make sense.)

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Re:Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job ... by raceyT on Sunday September 06, 2015 @04:40PM (#10178927)
Sure but how does that change the fact that making it a industry scales it up to today's profiteering system of justice?
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Re:Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job ... by gress on Sunday September 06, 2015 @02:36PM (#10178516)
The population has had moral objections primarily because of the agitating of the owning classes.
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