This law is creating criminals !

Marijuana law just creates criminals written by Hakeem Jeffries is about people getting locked up over a small possession of weed. How this law is “fundamentally unfair.”

The article has facts. A fact that stood out to me was that New York City spends 75 million dollars every year on arresting people because of marijuana. It stands out because why are they spending so much money on people getting arrested for marijuana, they could be putting the money to way better use like theft or murder.

I think this topic is correct. The marijuana law does create criminals. Someone who has never got locked up before gets locked up for weed and becomes a criminal in his records.
This law is different from Philadelphia’s law. You may get locked up for the weed and have to pay a fine, but you won’t spend months in jail over a small amount of weed.

I can connect this with the boys that live around my way. They get picked on by police for just standing outside Chinese and Puerto Rican stores. By locking them up and giving them a record police are messing up their future. They are going to have a hard time finding a job with a criminal background. If they want to be an attorney law firms may not hire someone who got locked up for possession of weed small amount or not.

Police need to not make criminals out of a small amount of weed. They need to either give them a warning or fine them and keep it moving. It is no need paying millions of dollars on people who have marijuana.