going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi:

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi:

personally I think that if we make something legal, everyone who’s in jail for breaking the previous law should be released. I can’t believe that’s not a common sense belief.

why? because we’ve clearly decided that what they did is fine, since we just made it legal.

but they still committed a crime! it was illegal then, and they broke the law! except “breaking the law” isn’t the bad action. the bad action is the thing that’s illegal. if “breaking the law” was the issue, then all crimes would be equal.

we don’t punish people for breaking the law. we punish them for doing something bad. if we as a society have declared something that used to be illegal now legal, then we’ve decided it’s not a bad thing. so we should stop punishing people for it.

it’s fucking ridiculous (and yes this is about weed)