Whoaccio
Senior Member
I do not think people in Canada are advocating sending people to jail for like 10 years for drug possession.
No, but the moment you get into the criminal system the likelihood of getting a decent job drops substantially. So if Jamal Manning of Scarborough gets a criminal record, even if there is only a very minor jail sentence (or even none at all), for minor possession he is that much more likely to get sucked into some two bit criminal enterprise. The really annoying part is that these petty drug charges are applied and prosecuted in a manner that would appear to specifically target black people.
Unmentioned in the WSJ article, but every bit as true, would be the link between gang finances and the drug trade. 60% of firearms in the city I believe come from the USA and nearly each of these is in turn financed by illicit drug sales.