It’s called making an example out of someone.
Edit: Lots of people not understanding how that’s exactly what cops and shitheads in power think about sending people on drugs to jail. That’s scary.
They are more than happy to send your ass to jail for decades because of minor charges that don’t hurt anyone but yourself. You’re just a number to these assholes. They will make an example out of you if they can.
Great. For drug traffickers, prison system and politicians.
Oh you mean drug addicts … fuck them you don’t actually care about those right? /s
How many examples do you think are needed before people stop doing drugs?
rehabilitation instead of prison…
Just gonna leave this PDF of Angela Davis’ Are Prisons Obsolete? here.
Edit:
How about if I’m not bothering anybody then don’t even arrest me?
I misunderstood that comment above. My bad.
What do you mean? People get arrested for possession of weed for example that they plan to consume by themselves, not bothering anybody. Then they get locked up. You rather lock them away, than try to rehabilitate them? This applies to so many cases. Of course there are cases where the verdict says prison but at least try to keep people out of prison. But wait the prison system is a corporation trying to make money.
Uh did you misread it? That’s exactly his point, people getting arrested when they weren’t even bothering anyone.
If only it was like in Portugal…
Or no.
I couldn’t name another other than Portugal and Switzerland that have essentially decriminalised most drugs last I checked.
Not Portuguese myself but my understanding is that since 2001 most drugs are decriminalised for possession (the rule is like 10 days’ worth or something) but they can still confiscate your drugs and levy fines in rare cases. These offences carry no criminal record and can never carry a sentence of incarceration. Basically kinda illegal but not really.
self fulfilling prophecy
