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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by DanBC on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:54PM (#13286902)
> and most of those convictions were plea-bargained down from trafficking charges.

What counts as trafficking in the US? In England merely handing your friend a joint can be seen as dealing.

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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by SomeStupidPoint on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:13PM (#13288837)
Trafficking can be a small amount of pot and a box of ziplock bags, but you're generally talking about 28-40g before you'll get charged (and usually more like 100g+), and the fed sentencing guidelines all involve the prefix "kilo" on the weights, so that tends to be the scale they're concerned with.
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