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Old 12-19-2013, 01:01 PM
spdrun spdrun is offline
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Isn't this the defacto solution?

If one is not caught or arrested, nothing changes. To make it a doctrine you'd have to get it past legislatures and similar governing bodies.
Or just spread the word that jury nullification is a civil right. It only takes 1/12 jurors to hang a jury. That's 8% of the population. If it's done consistently, and prosecutors realize that there's a good chance of a hung jury every time they bring a non-violent drug crime to trial, they'll start not bothering. If 10-15% of the public nullify, they'd have to try every non-violent drug crime multiple times on average to win a conviction. If defendants start realizing that they're difficult to convict, they'll start opting for a jury rather than a plea.

Hit the swine where it hurts: their pocketbooks. Right now, the "war on drugs" is a profit center. Remove the ability to profit and its reason for being ceases to exist.