Baltimore State AG Marilyn Mosby sees a softer side to crime that should not be punished

Mosby angry over something 

Baltimore State Attorney General Marilyn Mosby announced the city is going to take a more gentle, less punitive approach to crime and no longer prosecute certain criminals for "low level" crimes like drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic offenses, and other "quality of life" crimes she finds less offensive.

The chronically angry Mosby had previously said the policy as a temporary measure supposedly designed to stem the flow of COVID-19 among cops and prison populations, and to also make Baltimore a more interesting place to survive. But now she claimed at a Friday press conference that the policy had served to lower violent crime in the city and proved that her vision of "criminal justice reform" worked. Thus, the policy is now permanent.

Perhaps if she criminalizes crime, the crime rate will drop even further. She claims that violent crime and property crime has decreased significantly, but that's more likely due to the decrease in arrests. 

In fact, the idea of defunding the police would show a similar drop in crime for that same reason, while criminals would make the streets look like a bad day in Metropolis.

But while the homicide rate is hard to fix [aka fudge], they fell only slightly from 2019 and that was an all-time high year for that statistic.

There should be no doubt about Mosby's feelings about the police in her city and in the nation. She has been a frequent and public critic of Baltimore police. But now she has claimed the police force was on board with her program of decriminalizing crime.

"Our understanding is that the police are going to follow what they've been doing for the past year, which is not arresting people based on the offenses I mentioned." She also claimed that police will work with a local non-profit to help Baltimore residents find help for problems like addiction to drugs, homelessness, window smashing, looting and gentle requesting of financial assistance from street donors.

Mosby's husband, Nick Mosby, is president of the Baltimore City Council, and the couple is widely believed to have higher political ambitions which do not exclude leaders of the world. That is, if they can successfully fight the charges leveled against them in a federal criminal investigation that has been opened by the United States Attorney's Office regarding the couple's finances. 

The government is reportedly investigating alleged tax and campaign finance improprieties and have huddled with Maxine Waters who they view as their mentor and financial guru.

Mosby was asked questions about the federal investigation during her press conference, but according to NBC News, she refused to answer those questions, preferring instead to discuss her new policies.

She was not led out in handcuffs and plans to decriminalize tax and campaign fraud in her proposed "green" new deal.

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AOC is like a bad trip and wants company

“I took my [mescaline] pill at eleven ... I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.” ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 

Rep. Alexandria Occasionally-Coherent (Socialist-NY) wants to make it easier to check out magic mushrooms, man, and other cool s**t. And she can go for it, man, because she's in a position of unbridled power, she thinks, and after the shrooms, she's gonna want to study other psychedelic drugs and stuff.

The cooler-than-a-polar-bear's-butt congresswoman filed legislation on Friday aimed at making it easier for researchers to "study" the therapeutic and medical "benefits" of psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms, man, as her leftist crew is increasingly down for using mind-altering substances. [By down I mean up.]

AOC wants to end a rider that stops federal "frogskins" from being spent on "any activity that promotes the legalization of any drug or other substance in Schedule I" of the Controlled Substances Act. ...Man.

In her brilliant summary she states: "Academics and scientists report that provisions like this create [stigma] and insurmountable logistical hurdles to researching Schedule I drugs."

That's merely due to the stigma attached to those who mess up their lives with drugs and others who die from overdoses. But other than that, we cool

While certain entheogenic substances – such as mushrooms and peyote – have been used for centuries by Native American communities, the drugs were widely made illegal across the globe during the 1960s and 1970s. The tide, however, seems to be turning on these substances amid research at numerous universities into their efficacy in treating mental health issues and addiction.

An analysis published in October in Neuropharmacology, a medical journal focused on neuroscience, researchers from Johns Hopkins University recommended that psilocybin be reclassified for medical use – arguing its benefits in helping treat PTSD, depression and anxiety and helping people stop smoking by removing their will to do anything . . . anything at all.

AOC’s amendment comes on the heels on two major U.S. cities decriminalizing psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in certain mushrooms, and some states allowing for the killing of the unborn up to the moment of birth and beyond.

In early May, voters in Denver passed a measure that makes the personal use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms by those 21 years of age or older Denver's "lowest law-enforcement priority," according to the measure's language. It does not legalize psilocybin or permit its sale by Denver's cannabis businesses but it's more of a crime to jaywalk in Denver than to use magic mushrooms, or "shrooms" as the kids call it.

And last Tuesday, the Oakland City Council passed a resolution to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms and make defecating on public streets an accepted past time. 

AOC thinks that's cool, and if she thinks it's cool, then it's cool . . . man.

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