So if every state legalized weed,

[tavernier]

What would happen with all of the people who are still incarcerated for sales/use etc. ? Sorry if this has been discussed before.

[Bennyboy]

1. I think that this is very very very important when discussin lega

lization.

[Scootaloo]

2. Sadly, probably not anything

Though governors could probably write orders to reduce or end sentences, the standard is that the law was broken when it was a law, and future legality doesn't reflect on that.

I could be wrong - the only cases I can think of to draw precedence from would be prohibition-era sentences, and i admit to being no expert there.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. sadly we are a nation that has completely lost its moral compass.

nothing would happen.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Well, you could write automatic mass pardons and clemencies into the law.

That's a harder sell than just legalizing it, though.

An Alaska initiative a decade or more ago sought reparations for people convicted of pot crimes. It lost. That language isn't in this year's initiative.

[tavernier]

5. I have a neighbor who compared it

with the old "eating fish on Friday." He said that since every one who ate fish on Fridays used to go to hell, what happened with the ppl in hell once the rule was changed? Did they get out?

😄 Hey, I have no clue, but both are interesting questions!

[Warpy]

6. It was the people who ate meat on Friday who were condemned

How fish got classified as a plant is beyond me, but it was allowed.

A close reading of the bible, cover to cover, will show you a god who would prefer to send people to hell than admit them to heaven. So the rule got changed, all the people who were bucking for sainthood who got pastry made with lard on Friday without knowing it as their only sin are toasting with the rest of the reprobates.

Anyone who broke a stupid and unfair law before it was declared stupid and unfair and abolished apparently deserves both hell and prison.

[tavernier]

7. Fascinating!

Thanks for the history lesson!

[HereSince1628]

8. Probably nothing...they were imprisoned because "they broke the law"

would likely be the cry of lobbyists for the for-profit prison industry.