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Message: [QUOTE="Skathen, post: 3690289, member: 8789"] It's also frankly really expensive to jail people. So there's a counter force at work also - by imposing mandatory minimums, you swell the jail population which costs the government money - at a rough cost of $422 per prisoner per day. Further, there are also cases where people have mitigating circumstances, or the punishment doesn't really fit - but with no discretion in sentencing, can result in unduly harsh scenarios - like mandatory minimums for theft and a kid steals a pencil because he's from a dirt poor family and needs one for school. As far as drugs go - [URL]https://www.acic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-03/NWDMP%20Report%2018_1.PDF[/URL] A lot of people don't realise how prevalent drug use is within our community. If police got very serious and pulled a sudden citywide blitz on many major roads at peak hour on a work day, you'd be dealing with thousands or potentially tens of thousands of detections. People get really bent out of shape about the weirdest stuff. Society has a drug problem, it's not just Ezra. [/QUOTE]

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