re: Legalize weed in Louisiana and the economy will come up.

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If you are in prison for weed 99% of the time it is because you made your living from it. What will these people do when they get out? Get legit jobs when our real unemployment rate is near 20% and they have a record? Nope! It's welfare at best but the most likely scenario is they will resort to worse crime when they get sick of minimum wage.

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So you are going way off topic into a recidivism issue in an attempt to argue that releasing nonviolent criminals is actually a negative. By your logic every dealer should just get a life sentence.

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If you are in prison for weed 99% of the time it is because you made your living from it.

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Also, this is completely false. If you are black and get caught with weed a repeated # of times you are going to jail. Just look at the inhumane possession laws in Louisiana. Up to 6 months jail time for a second offense of simple possession of weed.

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