10-19-2016, 02:36 PM
(10-19-2016, 02:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'm not immediately aware of one but it would still miss the point. Street level drug trade invites far greater scrutiny because of the amount of ancillary crime it generates, thus arrests for simple possession will be much higher due to that level of scrutiny. Your possession arrests for middle, and especially upper, class users is almost always in conjunction with another offense such as intoxicated in public, DUI or other traffic offenses.
Hmm, there really should be someone digging into this more, and I have no doubt there is. It's likely it is sitting in a library somewhere as someone's dissertation and has never seen the light of day beyond the review committee.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
