Mass incarceration. Sessions says- Lock em up, throw away the key.

[koshergrl]

"She had asked for a personal protection order that same year but it was turned down by a judge.

"Her divorce lawyer, Harvey Beck, spoke briefly with the AP, calling the deaths 'a terrible situation', but declining further comment.

"In the past, police have reportedly responded to the home for domestic violence and family troubles.

"Green was also reported to have a criminal record, pleading no contest to second-degree murder in 1992 and was sentenced to 15-25 years in prison, according to Detroit Free Press.

"Similarly, in 1991, he stabbed his pregnant wife to death, then called police to the home.

Father who was arrested for killing his four children served 15 years in prison for murdering his pregnant first wife in 1991 | Daily Mail Online


Yeah, let's hear some more about how the system is mean to brown people.

And how we need lighter sentences for violent offenders, cuz we're so fucking mean to the brown people.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I have to agree with the leftists loons on this one

well, sort f anyway

the job of the AG is to enforce the laws as they are written, so it is hard to fault him for doing his job

BUT - mandatory minimum sentences are stupid

we incarcerate too many people in this country

and drug laws SHOULD NOT be under the purview of the Federal Government

on the surface, I don't like reducing charges to help criminals, but this one is a little touchy

not a good move for the AG - interested to see where this goes

Sessions just said he is not a fan of mandatory. He is though, a fan of doing his job. He is not in the position of passing laws. He is in the position of upholding them.
Usually the person on drugs isn't incarcerated for doing drugs, but for crimes committed while on drugs or crimes committed in an effort to obtain drugs. And those on the receiving end of these crimes are getting sick and tired of the coddling of these criminals.
My friend's daughter and her daughter's disgusting boyfriend are druggy thieves by trade. A few years behind bars is about the only thing that is going to get her sober, and keep her alive, and yet every time she's caught, the judge has opted for some "alternative treatment" which in druggy speak means, "Yippee, who are we ripping off tonight, baby daddy?"

Right. That will cure them of their criminal behavior for sure!

"Federal Recidivism Studies
Federal Offenders and Recidivism-US Sentencing Commission-March, 2016

This report provides a broad overview of key findings from the United States Sentencing Commission’s study of recidivism of federal offenders.

The Commission studied offenders who were either released from federal prison after serving a sentence of imprisonment or placed on a term of probation in 2005.

Nearly half (49.3%) of such offenders were rearrested within eight years for either a new crime or for some other violation of the condition of their probation or release conditions.

This report discusses the Commission’s recidivism research project and provides many additional findings from that project. In the future, the Commission will release additional publications discussing specific topics concerning recidivism of federal offenders. (March 2016)

The offenders studied in this project are 25,431 federal offenders.

Key Findings

The key findings of the Commission’s study are:

Over an eight-year follow-up period, almost one-half of federal offenders released in 2005 (49.3%) were rearrested for a new crime or rearrested for a violation of supervision conditions.

Almost one-third (31.7%) of the offenders were also reconvicted, and one-quarter (24.6%) of the offenders were reincarcerated over the same study period.

Offenders released from incarceration in 2005 had a rearrest rate of 52.5 percent, while offenders released directly to a probationary sentence had a rearrest rate of 35.1 percent.

Of those offenders who recidivated, most did so within the first two years of the eight year follow-up period. The median time to rearrest was 21 months.

About one-fourth of those rearrested had an assault rearrest as their most serious charge over the study period. Other common most serious offenses were drug trafficking, larceny, and public order offenses.

A federal offender’s criminal history was closely correlated with recidivism rates. Rearrest rates range from 30.2 percent for offenders with zero total criminal history points to 80.1 percent of offenders in the highest Criminal History Category, VI. Each additional criminal history point was generally associated with a greater likelihood of recidivism.

A federal offender’s age at time of release into the community was also closely associated with differences in recidivism rates. Offenders released prior to age 21 had the highest rearrest rate, 67.6 percent, while offenders over sixty years old at the time of release had a recidivism rate of 16.0 percent with the exception of very short sentences (less than 6 months),

The rate of recidivism varies very little by length of prison sentence imposed (fluctuating between 50.8% for sentences between 6 months to 2 years, to a high of 55.5% for sentences between 5 to 9 years).

Other factors, including offense type and educational level, were associated with differing rates of recidivism but less so than age and criminal history.

Percent of Released Prisoners Returning to Incarceration

So what do you suggest? Hugs and coloring books? Because druggy classes simply do not work. Shall we let them help themselves to our belongings, and our cash registers because incarceration is too hard on them?
Bullshit. If my friend's daughter goes to prison after one of her heists, it isn't to benefit her, it is to protect us. A three year sentence means 3 years that a business will be able to keep it's profits, and her mother can sleep soundly again without fear of that 2am. phone call.
If the little thief gets out in three years and robs someone again, then 3 years wasn't long enough. Make it 6 years next time. She is a thief first and a druggy after that. Thieves belong jail regardless of their sobriety or pill popping preference...

I had a high school buddy who served time for trafficking drugs. He used that time to learn how to build and operate a meth lab, when he got out.

 

[Aries]

Burglars should be in prison for years. Not months. It's insane. And I can't believe there are sane people who argue that it's discriminatory to incarcerate fucking criminals.

Which is why we need nuthouses. Obviously, we have a problem in this country. And it's not just the criminals.

When certain colored criminals get 3 months for rape and a certain colored criminal gets years for a victimless crime it's discrimination.

That depends.
Person on person crimes need to be punished severely. I already said that.

But you keep pretending there are these people imprisoned for years for *victimless crimes* and that it's a matter of COLOR..and an indication we need to lessen sentencing guidelines?

Are you high?

It's not about race. It's about a system that refuses to hold people accountable for the worst crimes imaginable, and instead keep letting people skate.

S. Deschutes Co. man charged in Gorge cliff death strikes plea deal
Three years probation for killing this girl.

No prison sentence for mother in death of baby Aniston
Walker left 7-week-old Aniston with a 3-year-old at home and without adult supervision.

Man kills baby, gets out of prison, kills another

So you argue there is no racial bias in our justice system??? Lol awe that's cute.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I simply can not take the DEA seriously about anything with their remaining adamant that marijuana remain against federal law, in spite of 26 states having legalized it. The DEA is a joke, and stuck in the last century.

 

[oreo]

"The move is a reversal of ex-President Barack Obama's policy to reduce jail time for low-level drug crimes.

It means we are going to meet our responsibility to enforce the law with judgment and fairness," Mr Sessions said on Friday. "It is simply the right and moral thing to do."

Mr Sessions' predecessor, Eric Holder, had instructed prosecutors in 2013 to avoid pursuing the maximum punishment for criminals in cases such as minor drug offences, which would have triggered mandatory minimum sentencing.

The 2013 policy also encouraged prosecutors to omit details about drug quantities in cases of non-violent offenders with no previous charges or ties to gangs or cartels to avoid harsher punishments.
Mandatory minimum sentences laws, which were passed in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the US "war on drugs", prevent judges from applying discretion when sentencing certain drug offences and are instead determined by the quantity of drugs involved in the crime.
Mr Obama had sought to ease mandatory minimum sentences to reduce jail time for low-level drug crimes and help relieve overcrowded prisons in the US as part of criminal justice reform."

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing - BBC News





"The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars,
China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison


If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up
The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000 people.
The others have much lower rates. England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63.
(The median among all nations is about 125, roughly a sixth of the American rate)


Criminologists and legal experts here and abroad point to a tangle of factors to explain America's extraordinary incarceration rate: higher levels of violent crime, harsher sentencing laws, a legacy of racial turmoil, a special fervor in combating illegal drugs, the American temperament, and the lack of a social safety net. Even democracy plays a role, as judges — many of whom are elected, another American anomaly — yield to populist demands for tough justice.
Whatever the reason, the gap between American justice and that of the rest of the world is enormous and growing.


The spike in American incarceration rates is quite recent. From 1925 to 1975, the rate remained stable, around 110 people in prison per 100,000 people. It shot up with the movement to get tough on crime in the late 1970s.


People who commit nonviolent crimes in the rest of the world are less likely to receive prison time and certainly less likely to receive long sentences. The United States is, for instance, the only advanced country that incarcerates people for minor property crimes like passing bad checks, Whitman wrote.

In 1980, there were about 40,000 people in American jails and prisons for drug crimes. These days, there are almost 500,000.
"The U.S. pursues the war on drugs with an ignorant fanaticism," said Stern of King's College.

Still, it is the length of sentences that truly distinguishes American prison policy.
Burglars in the United States serve an average of 16 months in prison, according to Mauer, compared with 5 months in Canada and 7 months in England."
U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations

Jails & Prisons are for violent people that are a threat to others. It's a total waste of Federal & State Taxpayer dollars to put non-violent people--prostitutes--drug users--marijuana smokers in jail.

Sessions is a stupid as the Ass Clown that is in the Oval office. Furthermore Sessions is a racist and doesn't even understand what sexual assault is.

"After the Washington Post published a 2005 tape showing Trump bragging about grabbing women’s crotches without permission, Sessions, a prominent Trump surrogate throughout the campaign, came to the Republican’s defense, according to the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard. (His office did not return the Post's requests for comment.) "This was very improper language, and he's acknowledged that," Sessions said last month in St. Louis, according to the magazine.

The reporter pressed him. "But beyond the language, would you characterize the behavior described in that as sexual assault if that behavior actually took place?"

"I don't characterize that as sexual assault,” Session replied.

"So if you grab a woman by the genitals,” the reporter said, “that's not sexual assault?"

"I don't know. It's not clear that he — how that would occur," Sessions said."
It’s not clear if Jeff Sessions thinks grabbing a woman by the crotch is sexual assault

Sessions was DENIED by the Senate as a Federal District Court judge during the Bush 1 administration over his many racist comments.
That time the Senate denied Jeff Sessions a federal judgeship over accusations of racism

To add insult to injury---Sessions had to recuse himself from this Russian investigation because he lied to congress under oath. Now many state--well it's because he mis understood the question, but he also filled out a questionaire prior to the confirmation hearing and checked a box that he had no contact with any Russians. Democrats asked Sessions to come back in to testify and Sessions refused.
Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russian envoy during presidential campaign: Department of Justice
Sessions recuses himself from Russia investigations - CNNPolitics.com

Then he was in on the firing of Director Comey--when he should have stayed out of it--because he had recused himself from the Russian investigation. So he violated his own recusal to stay out of the Russian investigation.
Did AG Sessions violate his recusal by advising on the decision to fire Comey?

Jeff Sessions has absolutely no business being Attorney General of this country.

 

[Zander]

I have to agree with the leftists loons on this one

well, sort f anyway

the job of the AG is to enforce the laws as they are written, so it is hard to fault him for doing his job

BUT - mandatory minimum sentences are stupid

we incarcerate too many people in this country

and drug laws SHOULD NOT be under the purview of the Federal Government

on the surface, I don't like reducing charges to help criminals, but this one is a little touchy

not a good move for the AG - interested to see where this goes

Agree 100%.

 

[ScienceRocks]

It is so fucking funny to behold the very same people whining about how much they hate government supporting this shit. We're already the most imprisoned nation on earth and you pieces of shit want to lock people up by the millions for smoking a freaking leaf? Fascist all.

We should be cutting the law book in half but of course you don't give a shit about anyone besides the super rich.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It is so fucking funny to behold the very same people whining about how much they hate government supporting this shit. We're already the most imprisoned nation on earth and you pieces of shit want to lock people up by the millions for smoking a freaking leaf? Fascist all.

We should be cutting the law book in half but of course you don't give a shit about anyone besides the super rich.

If we just shot them, potheads wouldn't be filling the prisons.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

So you're against arresting drug dealers and giving them long sentences?

A better way to make America Great would be to put the dealers out of business by legalizing, growing here, employing Americans here, who pay taxes here.... and stiffen up on some of the "repeat addicts" with boot camps.

I dont have a problem with pot.
I do however have a problem with those who sell highly addictive drugs like coke or heroin.
That shit destroys lives.

So, you must support a return to alcohol prohibition, then?

Or are you just a hypocrite?

How do you come to that conclusion?

 

[dcbl]

Jeff Sessions has absolutely no business being Attorney General of this country.

EXCEPT, he has a bunch of experience and is one of the folks that walks with integrity - he can be counted on to do what he believes to be the right thing, every time

Liberal blacks in Alabama respect him, you must have missed the defense of him by black leaders in Alabama

I disagree with him on this, but I respect him, as does damn near everyone here in Alabama

 

[Markle]

• Drugs 50.7%
• Public-order 35.0%,
• Violent 7.9%
• Property 5.8%
• Other .7%

Victimless Crime Constitutes 86% of The Federal Prison Population

When you use a source that includes in their description of victimless crimes such things as selling lemonade without a license, dancing in public, feeding the homeless without a permit etc..

I skimmed the article but did not see the list of what they consider victimless crimes. Why not?

PLEASE show me where millions of people are in jail because of those things.

Dealing drugs is NOT a victimless crime. How many dealers check ID's to see that the customer is old enough to make a mature decision to damage the development of their brain?

Where do you get the idea that drug dealers have some sort of code of ethics that says they only deal in "harmless" marijuana? Why do you think the rampant expanding use of opioids is a victimless crime? Where do the druggies get the money?

 

[dcbl]

It is so fucking funny to behold the very same people whining about how much they hate government supporting this shit. We're already the most imprisoned nation on earth and you pieces of shit want to lock people up by the millions for smoking a freaking leaf? Fascist all.

We should be cutting the law book in half but of course you don't give a shit about anyone besides the super rich.

If we just shot them, potheads wouldn't be filling the prisons.

no, no, no, no

We only need to rough them up a little

We shoot the meth heads, weren't you at the last meeting?

 

[Dan Stubbs]

"The move is a reversal of ex-President Barack Obama's policy to reduce jail time for low-level drug crimes.

It means we are going to meet our responsibility to enforce the law with judgment and fairness," Mr Sessions said on Friday. "It is simply the right and moral thing to do."

Mr Sessions' predecessor, Eric Holder, had instructed prosecutors in 2013 to avoid pursuing the maximum punishment for criminals in cases such as minor drug offences, which would have triggered mandatory minimum sentencing.

The 2013 policy also encouraged prosecutors to omit details about drug quantities in cases of non-violent offenders with no previous charges or ties to gangs or cartels to avoid harsher punishments.
Mandatory minimum sentences laws, which were passed in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the US "war on drugs", prevent judges from applying discretion when sentencing certain drug offences and are instead determined by the quantity of drugs involved in the crime.
Mr Obama had sought to ease mandatory minimum sentences to reduce jail time for low-level drug crimes and help relieve overcrowded prisons in the US as part of criminal justice reform."

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing - BBC News





"The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars,
China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison


If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up
The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000 people.
The others have much lower rates. England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63.
(The median among all nations is about 125, roughly a sixth of the American rate)


Criminologists and legal experts here and abroad point to a tangle of factors to explain America's extraordinary incarceration rate: higher levels of violent crime, harsher sentencing laws, a legacy of racial turmoil, a special fervor in combating illegal drugs, the American temperament, and the lack of a social safety net. Even democracy plays a role, as judges — many of whom are elected, another American anomaly — yield to populist demands for tough justice.
Whatever the reason, the gap between American justice and that of the rest of the world is enormous and growing.


The spike in American incarceration rates is quite recent. From 1925 to 1975, the rate remained stable, around 110 people in prison per 100,000 people. It shot up with the movement to get tough on crime in the late 1970s.


People who commit nonviolent crimes in the rest of the world are less likely to receive prison time and certainly less likely to receive long sentences. The United States is, for instance, the only advanced country that incarcerates people for minor property crimes like passing bad checks, Whitman wrote.

In 1980, there were about 40,000 people in American jails and prisons for drug crimes. These days, there are almost 500,000.
"The U.S. pursues the war on drugs with an ignorant fanaticism," said Stern of King's College.

Still, it is the length of sentences that truly distinguishes American prison policy.
Burglars in the United States serve an average of 16 months in prison, according to Mauer, compared with 5 months in Canada and 7 months in England."
U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations

I interject the infomation that China tends to shoot the suspects shortly after sentencing, therefore have less incarceration in the population. The rest are socialist and crime is a way of life. So don't do the comparison without the data.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

• Drugs 50.7%
• Public-order 35.0%,
• Violent 7.9%
• Property 5.8%
• Other .7%

Victimless Crime Constitutes 86% of The Federal Prison Population

When you use a source that includes in their description of victimless crimes such things as selling lemonade without a license, dancing in public, feeding the homeless without a permit etc..

PLEASE show me where millions of people are in jail because of those things.

Dealing drugs is NOT a victimless crime. How many dealers check ID's to see that the customer is old enough to make a mature decision to damage the development of their brain?

Where do you get the idea that drug dealers have some sort of code of ethics that says they only deal in "harmless" marijuana? Why do you think the rampant expanding use of opioids is a victimless crime? Where do the druggies get the money?

Just a min was not this woman put forth by the News Media as the "smartest woman in the United States", I seem to remember that from the News.

 

[imawhosure]

Mr Sessions' predecessor, Eric Holder, had instructed prosecutors in 2013 to avoid pursuing the maximum punishment for criminals in cases such as minor drug offences, which would have triggered mandatory minimum sentencing.

because from 2009 - 2013, uber bigots Obama and Holder were joyfully packing Federal prisons with overwhelmingly white medicinal marijuana people, who were deliberately lied to by Obama during the 2008 campaign...

Dickinson: Obama's War on Pot


"
Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," he vowed, promising an end to the Bush administration's high-profile raids on providers of medical pot, which is legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia.

But over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multiagency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana. With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush's record for medical-marijuana busts. "There's no question that Obama's the worst president on medical marijuana," says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "He's gone from first to worst.""

he administration's recognition of medical cannabis reached its high-water mark in July 2010, when the Department of Veterans Affairs validated it as a legitimate course of treatment for soldiers returning from the front lines. But it didn't take long for the fragile federal detente to begin to collapse. The reversal began at the Drug Enforcement Agency with Michele Leonhart, a holdover from the Bush administration who was renominated by Obama to head the DEA. An anti-medical-marijuana hard-liner, Leonhart had been rebuked in 2008 by House Judiciary chairman John Conyers for targeting dispensaries with tactics "typically reserved for the worst drug traffickers and kingpins." Her views on the larger drug war are so perverse, in fact, that last year she cited the slaughter of nearly 1,000 Mexican children by the drug cartels as a counterintuitive "sign of success in the fight against drugs."

Obama kept too many bush holdovers. Republicans were so against him he tried to throw them a bone, it ended up hurting him in more areas than one.

You drug addicted worthless piece of human debris. Why don't you worry about something important, like nuclear weapons, instead of worrying about where your next HIGH is coming from, and if it is legal or not!

This is the LEFT, and much of the LIBERALtarian position. They want to get high legally, and are to lazy to change the laws. Just like all LAZY people of youth, they want their way now, right now, and will fight for it, even as a nuke is heading towards their city.

Shows you what they are all really worried about!

 

[candycorn]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Simple enough

Millions of crimes are committed to feed these people's drug habits.

Millions!!!! LOL

Did you run out of fingers and toes to count on lib? /SARCASM

I was too busy counting your “millions” of crimes dick lips.

 

[dcbl]

Mr Sessions' predecessor, Eric Holder, had instructed prosecutors in 2013 to avoid pursuing the maximum punishment for criminals in cases such as minor drug offences, which would have triggered mandatory minimum sentencing.

because from 2009 - 2013, uber bigots Obama and Holder were joyfully packing Federal prisons with overwhelmingly white medicinal marijuana people, who were deliberately lied to by Obama during the 2008 campaign...

Dickinson: Obama's War on Pot


"
Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," he vowed, promising an end to the Bush administration's high-profile raids on providers of medical pot, which is legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia.

But over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multiagency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana. With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush's record for medical-marijuana busts. "There's no question that Obama's the worst president on medical marijuana," says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "He's gone from first to worst.""

he administration's recognition of medical cannabis reached its high-water mark in July 2010, when the Department of Veterans Affairs validated it as a legitimate course of treatment for soldiers returning from the front lines. But it didn't take long for the fragile federal detente to begin to collapse. The reversal began at the Drug Enforcement Agency with Michele Leonhart, a holdover from the Bush administration who was renominated by Obama to head the DEA. An anti-medical-marijuana hard-liner, Leonhart had been rebuked in 2008 by House Judiciary chairman John Conyers for targeting dispensaries with tactics "typically reserved for the worst drug traffickers and kingpins." Her views on the larger drug war are so perverse, in fact, that last year she cited the slaughter of nearly 1,000 Mexican children by the drug cartels as a counterintuitive "sign of success in the fight against drugs."

Obama kept too many bush holdovers. Republicans were so against him he tried to throw them a bone, it ended up hurting him in more areas than one.

You drug addicted worthless piece of human debris. Why don't you worry about something important, like nuclear weapons, instead of worrying about where your next HIGH is coming from, and if it is legal or not!

This is the LEFT, and much of the LIBERALtarian position. They want to get high legally, and are to lazy to change the laws. Just like all LAZY people of youth, they want their way now, right now, and will fight for it, even as a nuke is heading towards their city.

Shows you what they are all really worried about!

2 things:

1 - there is a nuke coming towards the USA right now? Link?

2 - GFY - if we are going to rail against government excess, we need to be consistent, and if I wanna smoke a leaf that's my damned business, I don't want the gub-mint anywhere near my life

 

[candycorn]

Jail whomever you want…just be prepared to pay for it; about $32,000 a year for a basic inmate. They need dialysis…you’re on the hook for that too.

In all likelihood you’ll see reported crime rates drop dramatically in the near term (3-5 years). The reason? Because people without their paperwork in order or no paperwork showing their citizenry will no longer report crimes. Are you really going to risk being deported back to Honduras or wherever to report your cell phone being stolen or your boyfriend assaulting you?

The stupid among us (Trump enablers) will herald the stats.

 

[Markle]

When marijuana is legalized I am sure there will be an associated age requirement, as with alcohol. Can't keep your kids from breaking the law? I guess that's your problem.

Why add another dangerous drug to alcohol to expose children to and make it easier for them to acquire leading to far harder drugs? Why is it MY problem? It is not yours, you don't care?

More Young Children Exposed to Marijuana

Kids younger than 3 may eat the drug when it's baked into brownies and cookies

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HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, June 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- There's been a sharp increase in marijuana exposure among young children in the United States in recent years, a new study finds.

The increases in exposure come as more states have legalized the drug for medical or recreational use, the researchers noted. Marijuana exposure in young children generally comes from breathing or swallowing the drug.

"The high percentage of ingestions may be related to the popularity of marijuana brownies, cookies and other foods," study co-author Henry Spiller, director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, said in a hospital news release.

"Very young children explore their environments by putting items in their mouths, and foods such as brownies and cookies are attractive," he added.

The study included information from the National Poison Database System and found that marijuana exposure among children aged 5 and younger rose more than 147 percent nationwide from 2006 through 2013.

Overall, almost 2,000 cases of marijuana exposure involving young children were reported to Poison Control Centers in the United States from 2000 through 2013.

The exposure rate increased nearly 610 percent among children in states that legalized marijuana for medical use before 2000.

Even in states that had not legalized marijuana by 2013, there was a 63 percent increase in marijuana exposure among young children from 2000 through 2013.

More than 75 percent of children exposed to marijuana were younger than 3. Most exposures involved swallowing marijuana, the researchers said.

Read more: More Young Children Exposed to Marijuana, Study Finds

 

[dcbl]

Where do you get the idea that drug dealers have some sort of code of ethics that says they only deal in "harmless" marijuana? Why do you think the rampant expanding use of opioids is a victimless crime? Where do the druggies get the money?

Our government does not want to stop the drug trade

I know this because if we REALLY wanted to stop it, we would

I agree that heavy drugs should remain illegal, but only at the state level

Separation of powers and all of that

But I also think we should allow people to make their own decisions

This is a tough issue all the way around - locking everyone up and fighting a "war on drugs" isn't working, so where do we go from here?