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We have always enforced laws selectively. Cops can let you off with a warning or ignore you going five miles an hour over the limit. Prosecutors decline to prosecute. Marijuana dispensaries are everywhere.

Which ones we pick to be super hardline about says much about us.



Sure, but one is on a case-by-case, officer-by-officer basis, whereas the other is nationwide and concerns 10s of millions of people.


Allowing ~5 mph over the limit is nationwide and affects basically every driver.

Dispensaries are similarly tacitly permitted on a national level; the DEA is ignoring them as a matter of widespread policy.




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