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...applaud the idea of reducing these restrictions, and recommend that the state and federal government consider going much further. The strict laws restricting marijuana possession have caused far more damage to society than the harmless plant itself could ever do. The current laws, under which possession can be punished by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine, are a waste of state resources. According to a study by Harvard professor of economics Jeffrey A. Miron, the measure could save the state almost $30 million each year—money that could go toward reducing the budget deficit...
This is the antiriot line of reasoning: we should punish bias crimes more severely because those crimes "can reverberate" and cause riots. This argument was developed during the 1980s. At the time, many in the Northeast feared that race-based crimes would ignite their cities. In 1986, Michael Griffith, a 23-year-old New York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton...
...politicians, the media, and the rest of America’s elite to remember the existence of our nation’s poorest districts. It is even more unfortunate that when confronted with this reality, these eminently privileged and powerful individuals can do little more than blame and further punish the victims of a system in which they can already barely survive...
...Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decided to punish the country?' Massachusetts Democrat BARNEY FRANK, mocking House Republicans for their "pettiness" and "hypersensitivity...
Harvard Republican Club President Colin J. Motley ’10 agreed that “don’t ask, don’t tell” is discriminatory but said Harvard’s rules unjustly punish the military for a policy enacted by the U.S. Congress and should be changed...