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Getting High Has Gone Legit — Funny How That All Worked Out…

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The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t erase criminalization’s disastrous impact on the working class.

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Thousands Charged With Drug Possession Walk Free, Leaving Taxpayers With the Tab

Angela Caputo Chicago Reporter
Drug possession is the No. 1 reason people were in Cook County Jail last year. That’s been the case for the better part of the past decade. Since 2006, people have been booked and released more than 100,000 times for possession, according to jail records. And during that same time period, taxpayers have spent $778 million jailing people on the lowest-level possession charges.
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