Dettelbach, in the AP interview, declined to comment on the specifics of Card’s case, which an independent commission in Maine is investigating. But he said it is clear that the nation needs to make it harder for people “that everyone agrees should not have firearms, who the law says are not entitled to have firearms, to get them because it’s too easy to get them now.” [More]
It’s just that there’s this “due process” thing those who would rule us don’t want to have to follow…
[Via Jess]
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Herer’s a first step in the right direction, but as long as they’ve got to be let out before they can be declared safe with certainty, expect plenty of lapses.
[Via Edmund M]
There could be alternatives, but the work of Leary and others was about as welcomed as the work of Lott and just as vigorously “debunked” by the establishment.
“Records at Concord State Prison suggested that 64 percent of the 32 subjects would return to prison within six months of parole.[4] However, after six months, only 25 percent of those on parole had returned, six for technical parole violations and two for new offenses. Few short-term projects with prisoners have been effective to even a minor degree.[citation needed]
In addition, a selection of personality tests were administered to the prisoners both before and after the psilocybin experiences, consisting of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the California Psychological Inventory, the Maher Sentence Completion Test (designed to measure cynicism in prisoners[5]), and a Thematic Apperception Test (constructed to measure motives). The personality test scores indicated a measurable positive change when pre-psilocybin and post-psilocybin results were compared.[2] ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Prison_Experiment
Because of the stigma associated with drugs such as LSD, Psilocybin, and THC, it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever conduct unbiased studies to shine any light on their possible use in rehabilitating career criminals.