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Re:Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients by reallydontask on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:54AM (#22127512)
> It's a small percentage of people in jail who are non-violent marijuana drug offenders.

I couldn't find anything about this on the link you provided. Any other sources?

this [1] doesn't differentiate between violent and non-violent

[1] http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics

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Re:Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients by jonfw on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:49AM (#22128453)
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/16/17243080/m...

https://www.marijuanalawyerblog.com/how-many-federal-prisone...

from the second link: "This is a total of 11,533 people incarcerated as a result of their involvement with cannabis products."

Considering that the percentage of prisoners in private prisons is below 10%, we can see that there are less than 1100 people in private prisons for marijuana related crimes.

There is no way that you can generate returns on lobbying for one of the most hot issues in US off of the profit of 1100 prisoners

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