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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by duaneb on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:43PM (#12913275)
It can't be as harmful as jailing people.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by tomnipotent on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:47PM (#12913930)
This x1000000. It's not about legalization, it's about decriminalization.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by ac29 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:17PM (#12915276)
The amount that was legalized was already decriminalized in California, a long time ago. See 11360b [0].

[0] http://law.onecle.com/california/health/11360.html

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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by duaneb on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:17PM (#12916338)
The problem isn't possession, it's intent to sell.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by Chris2048 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:06AM (#12919710)
So we should have laws we just ignore?
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by Chris2048 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:06AM (#12919705)
Yes it can. The sentences are disproportionate sometimes, but the illegality isn't wrong.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by duaneb on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:20PM (#12924474)
> but the illegality isn't wrong

Well of course it's illegal, that's why they got arrested. It doesn't mean that the legality has any grounds in reason.

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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana by Chris2048 on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:31AM (#12930018)
I mean it isn't wrong that it is illegal.
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