Yes, Jay, it is really simple. If we simply eliminate all laws (no
reason to stop just with drug laws), we'll have no crime at all! You
can't have crime if you have no laws to break. And we'd need no judges
or lawyers or politicians! I'm warming up to this idea already. :-)

It's funny, but true, that there is a large contingent of people
(enough of whom vote) here in Iowa City who have repeatedly killed
plans to build a desperately needed larger prison, using essentially
your (tongue-in-cheek) argument.

Their claim is that the prisons are over-crowded because of drug
offenders, and that all we need to do is simply release them all, and
voila! -- no need for a bigger prison!

So, Johnson County ends up leasing space (at outrageous prices) from
empty jails around the state. In the ten years we've lived here, we
could have built five new prisons, and been money ahead...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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