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Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by aphextron on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:26PM (#15252204)
There's something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90's. The time for federal prohibition to come to an end is far overdue.
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by mmanfrin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:18PM (#15252594)
I'm going to quibble about your word choice. There is something disturbing about the fact that people are still rotting in jail, not that Ease raised money.

Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.

Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by owebmaster on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:32PM (#15252689)
> Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.

Yes, it does. Priorities are disturbing. This doesn't happen by chance.

Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by amha on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:59PM (#15252855)
The people who gave Eaze funding aren't the people who put low-level drug dealers in jail.
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by owebmaster on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:34PM (#15253048)
They might be, as there are tons of money invested into prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/us-prisons-j...
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by mmanfrin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:08PM (#15252905)
I don't see how a company whose existence works to normalize the use of marijuana is a priority unaligned with that of decriminalizing and clemency for those incarcerated for posession.
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by chrshawkes on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:43PM (#15252343)
Is that exaggerated or do you really have confirmation of somebody serving time in prison for minor pot dealings? I would be willing to be most serving time in prisons for pot were moving quite a bit of product, which would still be illegal even in legalized pot states today.
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by ryen on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:52PM (#15252417)
There are many cases of extended time served for small personal amounts of marijuana. Especially after "tough on crime" effort and 3-strikes laws that permeated throughout the country starting in the 90s. Obama vacated many federal sentences before his term ended, but that didn't cover prisoners in state and county prisons.

Plenty of press and articles around this over the past few years.

Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by taheca on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:43PM (#15252770)
I think that this is true, but didn't Obama have a massive wave of Pardons of people like this before he left office?
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by techntoke on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:56PM (#15253163)
Didn't Google invent a search engine? People are still being incarcerated for long periods of time for minor marijuana offenses (well under a pound). This isn't news.
Re:Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M by techntoke on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:55PM (#15253159)
Really not hard to see the injustices here, and if you want court documents, then you can get them. Plenty of news sources as well:

http://norml.org/laws/item/indiana-penalties-2