In every drug convo, at some point people admit that putting low level dealers away doesn't change anything. Which is weird.
@JonathanCohn @DavidKaib Prohibition advocates know that such arrests won't stem the drug trade -- it's about signaling societal disapproval
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@mtracey@DavidKaib And a very expensive way of signaling it -
@JonathanCohn@DavidKaib The impulse to "signal" by way of coercive state power needs to be combatted.
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