Re:A.C.L.U. In $50M Push to Reduce Jail Sentences
by adventured on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:04PM
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I'm completely sure of it. In general it's changing drastically in the US in fact.
National polls indicate the majority are now in favor of pot legalization. States keep moving step by step toward treating drug addiction as a medical problem instead of a criminal problem. There is extremely wide-spread recognition that we have far too many people in prison, and that the police are far too violent / aggressive; both problems are finally seeing push-back and improvement.
The US has a long history of making sweeping cultural changes, sometimes extremely rapidly, other times extremely slowly. There is immense and continual precedence in the US for the culture moving in the right direction, from women's suffrage, to civil rights, to gay marriage.
America has a problem with alcohol? Where? I think you have it exactly backwards, there is relatively little puritanical anything left in America's culture.
1) The US is the world's largest consumer of alcohol. 2) The US is the world's biggest pornography market. The US is freer when it comes to that, than many European nations that are supposed to be non-puritanical. 3) I have no idea why you referenced video games, there are no actual problems with video games in the US despite whatever sensational blip you might have seen. 4) Most media in the US is perfectly fine with sexuality, you're referring to an extraordinarily small part of it, the broadcast networks.
National polls indicate the majority are now in favor of pot legalization. States keep moving step by step toward treating drug addiction as a medical problem instead of a criminal problem. There is extremely wide-spread recognition that we have far too many people in prison, and that the police are far too violent / aggressive; both problems are finally seeing push-back and improvement.
The US has a long history of making sweeping cultural changes, sometimes extremely rapidly, other times extremely slowly. There is immense and continual precedence in the US for the culture moving in the right direction, from women's suffrage, to civil rights, to gay marriage.
America has a problem with alcohol? Where? I think you have it exactly backwards, there is relatively little puritanical anything left in America's culture.
1) The US is the world's largest consumer of alcohol. 2) The US is the world's biggest pornography market. The US is freer when it comes to that, than many European nations that are supposed to be non-puritanical. 3) I have no idea why you referenced video games, there are no actual problems with video games in the US despite whatever sensational blip you might have seen. 4) Most media in the US is perfectly fine with sexuality, you're referring to an extraordinarily small part of it, the broadcast networks.