<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 16, 2020, at 10:35 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many places are sending those in prison home, esp. those who committed drug crimes or other nonviolent offenses, including just possession of small amounts. Get tough with crime politicians passed laws to jail many of these drug offenders (esp. blacks here in MS) only to find that they could not afford to keep them in prison (and so in MS they just reduced services etc.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I wish all states would decriminilize possession asap.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Agreed. And let’s consider abolishing prisons too:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://c4ss.org/content/30340">https://c4ss.org/content/30340</a></div><div><br></div><div>By the way, I live in Washington, where recreational cannabis use is legal (for those over 21). Yet folks here are still shocked when I advocate decriminalizing all recreational drugs.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><br></div></div></body></html>