Are the Drug Laws Changing in a Way That Effect How Much Time a Drug Offender Receives?

Question by Katrina R: Are the drug laws changing in a way that effect how much time a drug offender receives?
I heard that the mandatory minimum for drug offenders will be lowered. Is this true? Where can I find information regarding bills and laws currently en route to being passed?

Best answer:

Answer by Joe B
What are you Republican or an optimistic druggy?

Obama’s trying to lower them simply because it affects minorities at a very disproportionate rate.

Problem here is whites are like yo brah, are you seriously trying to help the races we’ve worked so hard to indirectly oppress? This is what happens when you have a bunch of old white men interpreting the constitution… I’ll remind you none of which the constitution mentions.

Don’t agree? In California 5 grams of crack is equal to 50 grams of powder, if that’s not enough proof I don’t know what is.

It is often decisions are based off warm fuzzies generations ago rather then interpreting the actual constitution, crack being a prime example.

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How Weed Won The West part 12 – In the follow-up to his ground-breaking documentary ‘American Drug War,’ filmmaker Kevin Booth traces the fight against Federal drug regulation in the State of California. A public majority has spoken and said yes to states rights, allowing for the use of medicinal marijuana and opening up a new front in controversial medicinal ‘dispensaries.’ While users herald the freedom of legally-licensed “weed,” powerful forces at the DEA and law enforcement haven’t given up their federal enforcement power yet. Many dispensaries have been raided, targeting their distribution of marijuana and challenging their authority to rise into legitimate business. In the backdrop of this public dispute is the Dark Alliance– where governments handle the volume of drug trafficking and work with cartels and drug dealers to manage the drug flow. Just like the prohibition of alcohol, drugs have thrived on their illicit appeal, and doomed millions of non-violent offenders to incarceration and prosecution. Now, those swearing by the healing power of medicinal marijuana as well as those who simply refuse to be outlawed by a hypocritical rogue government are daring to stand up and declare that the violence, corruption and uncontrolled flow of drugs is due to the prohibition of the substance, not the substance itself. Big Pharma has put millions of non-“drug” users on hallucinogenic prescription drugs and instituted new forms of addiction and dependency, challenging our outdated notions that is only

 

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