Small-Time Drug Possession Warrants Jail Time But Laundering Billions In Drug Cartel Money Doesn’t?

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Via: Washingtons Blog

Quote of the day:

If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re gonna go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life.

But evidently if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your bed at night — every single individual associated with this. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

- Senator Warren

Background here and here.

  • ShootyMcBang

    It’s simply because the prosecution of the end user feeds the Prison Industrial Complex.

  • yennikcm

    I remember Hillery C sayning they dont stop the flow of drugs from Mexico,
    because “There is too much money in it”……

  • yennikcm

    the “FIX”, be “IN”………….

  • charkee

    Too big to fail are also too big to jail.

  • poo

    An ounce is quite a lot! I know what the article is trying to say but if you sell an ounce a week in grams after cutting it your gonna be very well off. I’m not sure of the exchange rate but I reckon you’d earn at least £150,000 a year going by UK prices of course. An ounce is not personal use unless you’re a rock star with a lot of groupies.

  • GoyBoy

    Hebrews being invited back into Spain, after 500 years. Jews are out of control!

    http://www.blacklistednews.com/Sephardic_Jews_invited_back_to_Spain_after_500_years/24658/0/38/38/Y/M.html