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Should have been rescheduled already. What's the hold up

Weed ensures there's a steady supply of safe arrests and easy convictions. It keeps police looking busy and jails full. Politicians love it because it pushes up convictions, and so makes them look tough on crime.

Police unions, private prison corporations and politicians all have strong incentive to oppose legalization.

In my country (Uruguay), marijuana is legal, but police still hate it.

Headlines today here were about a 19 year old rural young person who was in the legal register (yes, you have to register to grow or purchase marijuana, not something the U.S. will like), but police still locked him up saying he was over the legal limit, by weighing untreated marijuana and saying each branch was a different plant (maximum allowed by law is 6).

Spanish language link:

http://www.montevideo.com.uy/contenido/Procesaron-con-prisio...

Google translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev...

The "each branch is a new plant" was once a common tactic here, as well. I suppose that police everywhere dislike the loss of authority.

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