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24-Year-Old Gets 3 Life Terms in Prison for Witnessing a Drug Deal: The Ugly Truth of Mandatory Drug Sentencing | Drugs | AlterNet
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this is absurd!
mandatory drug sentencing is a failed policy (as is "the war on drugs") & it's time to put an end to it. this policy overwhelmingly targets poor people & minorities. I read a startling statistic last year from the Justice Department that said whites use illegal drugs @ a rate 5X that of blacks & yet blacks are penalized 13X more often than whites for the same offense.
it clogs the court system & wastes tax payer money but @ the same time it supports the growing prison industrial complex that several presidents in the past warned against allowing to take root.
making marijuana legal would go a long way in putting an end to this & that itself would generate massive revenue for local & state gov't. Our neighbor to the north, Canada legalized marijuana (if i recall correctly) & there was no cataclysm or earth shattering reproccusion from that.
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this is absurd!
mandatory drug sentencing is a failed policy (as is "the war on drugs") & it's time to put an end to it. this policy overwhelmingly targets poor people & minorities. I read a startling statistic last year from the Justice Department that said whites use illegal drugs @ a rate 5X that of blacks & yet blacks are penalized 13X more often than whites for the same offense.
it clogs the court system & wastes tax payer money but @ the same time it supports the growing prison industrial complex that several presidents in the past warned against allowing to take root.
making marijuana legal would go a long way in putting an end to this & that itself would generate massive revenue for local & state gov't. Our neighbor to the north, Canada legalized marijuana (if i recall correctly) & there was no cataclysm or earth shattering reproccusion from that.
