Yet (Thank You President Carter)

[ManVsYard]

Stoners, potheads, everywhere!
Now is the time, to roll up.
Our sleeves and work to free
those who scrape a metal cup
across the bars, that line their cells.
Their concrete, crowded smelly hells,
We can no longer just say "Oh well.
At least I Ain't locked up. "



Thank You President Jimmy Carter!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opini ... .html?_r=3
Drug policies here are more punitive and counterproductive than in other democracies, and have brought about an explosion in prison populations. At the end of 1980, just before I left office, 500,000 people were incarcerated in America; at the end of 2009 the number was nearly 2.3 million. There are 743 people in prison for every 100,000 Americans, a higher portion than in any other country and seven times as great as in Europe. Some 7.2 million people are either in prison or on probation or parole — more than 3 percent of all American adults!