https://www.findlaw.com/state/criminal-laws/marijuana-posses...
And the ones who didn't get sent to prison, stunt their career by being useless hippies or drive their muscle cars drunk so habitually that laws got passed are the current heads of most public and private institutions.
So things will likely improve a bit when those people age out as their replacements will likely be picked from an unleaded pool.
May be the result of a rapidly declining birth rate.
Well also, the number one crime these youths were getting arrested for was drug possession. With drug trafficking being second. 15 years ago the vast majority of people in prison in texas were there for drug possession or trafficking. If all of a sudden everyone's drug of choice is marijuana, and it's being decriminalized everywhere, I have to think that makes it hard to get the numbers you used to get in terms of arrests.
Not that this is a bad thing. I'm just pointing out that while arrests did go down, I don't necessarily believe that the prevalence of pot smoking decreased.
One benefit is that this new environment should help them to have better futures than the youths that came before them.
To foment hysteria in feeble minded neurotics?
It’s a bit easier to explain away the inconvenience of locked individual items as a response to a rise in crime rather than the store’s choices.
I doubt it’s a direct motivation but that isn’t to say it’s not a useful outcome either.
One of the biggest ones, GEO, only made $30m last year with a margin of 1.1%.
Another one, CXW, made $84m.
SSTI is losing money.
Microsoft makes $284m… per day.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/summary?id=d... https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/geo-group/summary?id=D00002...
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