Comments on: My Field Trip to Prison http://hfac.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/my-field-trip-to-prison/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Citizens or Subjects? http://hfac.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/my-field-trip-to-prison/#comment-11 Citizens or Subjects? Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:58:50 +0000 http://hfac.wordpress.com/?p=87#comment-11 A++ James growing up in JOCO through the 90s and more recently, my experiences validate your proposal 100%. In fact its actually very similar to a government paper I wrote in Olathe schools as a senior in 2001, I got an A+! Peace and Freedom A++ James growing up in JOCO through the 90s and more recently, my experiences validate your proposal 100%. In fact its actually very similar to a government paper I wrote in Olathe schools as a senior in 2001, I got an A+!

Peace and Freedom

]]> By: James http://hfac.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/my-field-trip-to-prison/#comment-9 James Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:35 +0000 http://hfac.wordpress.com/?p=87#comment-9 Personally, I think before we build more prisons we take a serious look at decriminalizing schedule 1 narcotics, with the exception of heroin. Taxing and regulating these would create a much larger new tax than a quarter cent sales tax. This would solve several problems, I don't have the numbers, but it would release people with minor drug offenses, which constitute a large, and growing, segment of prison population, no more “farming out” prisoners, and raise taxes for the state, county and city. You can then reallocate the moneys and resources’ currently being used for "drug enforcement". The new tax base would be incredible. Treat these substances the same as cigarettes and liquor, no minors would be allowed to buy them therefore we don’t have to worry abou the youth getting a hold of the drugs anymore than we currently worry about them getting cigarettes and alcohol. Personally, I think before we build more prisons we take a serious look at decriminalizing schedule 1 narcotics, with the exception of heroin.

Taxing and regulating these would create a much larger new tax than a quarter cent sales tax. This would solve several problems, I don’t have the numbers, but it would release people with minor drug offenses, which constitute a large, and growing, segment of prison population, no more “farming out” prisoners, and raise taxes for the state, county and city. You can then reallocate the moneys and resources’ currently being used for “drug enforcement”. The new tax base would be incredible. Treat these substances the same as cigarettes and liquor, no minors would be allowed to buy them therefore we don’t have to worry abou the youth getting a hold of the drugs anymore than we currently worry about them getting cigarettes and alcohol.

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