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45 Comments on “Mandatory Minimum Sentences to End for Many Drug Offenders”

  4. Drug addicts, unlike the corrupt and crooked politicians from whom you get
    your propaganda, would rather try to change their ways in most cases, with
    a certain degree of remorse, admitting they have a problem, and it’s
    CHEAPER than jail, which has already shown it’s poor track record of
    rehabilitation. Do you know many politicians, bankers and or CEO’s that
    stood up and said:”I have broken the law, taken bribes, crashed the economy
    , all because of greed. Is there a greed rehab anywhere?

  7. Think about this too- overdoses cost a great deal of money to the govt
    covering hospital costs. If a legitimate business is producing heroin- you
    can be sure they will take extreme precaution in ensuring its potency level
    is tightly controlled- to conform to the directions printed. Even as
    horrible as a heroin addiction sounds- pain killers do more damage to your
    body and are legal. Black market is also highly disastrous to those who are
    abusing drugs. They need help- deter with education.

  9. but the part that breaks up the family and ruins the lives isn’t the drug
    is the law against the drug.

  11. There is a difference between being charged for /dealing/ drugs, and being
    charged for /using/ drugs.

  13. David, EH asked prosecutors not to fill in the amount of drug seized in
    SOME cases. This is a policy change and NOT a law change.

  15. ” It should still be illegal… This would free up resources so that law
    enforcement” That is a lovely intention but history has shown time after
    time that making it black market significantly drives up the cost- creating
    profit incentive for people willing to break the law. Who once they do get
    into a dispute over their business choice cannot go the police, or courts.
    Their only option is take the losses or create a circle of violence on the
    streets- this is not freeing up any police.

  18. False equivalency, it doesn’t matter if there’s no law against greed,
    there’s no law against alcoholism, there’s still treatment for it. You say
    drugs ruin lives and destroy families whereas greed doesn’t. Funny thing
    is, a lot of the lives ruined by drugs are ruined because of strict drug
    laws originating from greedy private correction company lobby groups,
    rather than a genuine, scientific pursuit of justice. So argue against
    legalisation all you like, just don’t pretend to care about justice.

  20. Like Bill Hicks said, drugs that make you non-obedient servants of the
    government will always be banned until we revolutionize.

  21. Tell that to all the innocent people who lost their lives to police armed
    with wrong information beating down their doors.

  22. So, what Eric Holder intends to do is exchange the Prison Industrial
    Complex for the Drug Treatment Industrial Complex. This whole thing strikes
    me more as a money making scheme than any reform of law enforcement.

  23. That’s your perrogative. Do you honestly believe that marijuana users
    deserve to go to prison? If so, your morals are askew.

  24. All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be
    increased and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum
    sentences.

  25. I don’t know what it is your smoking/shooting up but greed is not a crime,
    never has been, never will be, and people have actually been caught and
    gone to jail for taking bribes, just fyi as for addicts trying hard to
    correct, it’s that darn huge monkey on their backs that’s the problem. You
    need to realize I wasn’t born yesterday

  28. Strange that there are actualy people in jail for a substance that makes
    you passive, giggle, and maybe eat a cookie or 2 more.

  29. in Richmond, Virginia I was convicted of assault over a dirty drug test.
    Judge Roberts drug tests everyone and if you fail your drug test you are
    guilty no matter what.

  30. All the cops have to do is tack on their already default “resisting arrest”
    and “assaulting an officer” charges, and voila, they’re no longer a
    “non-violent” drug offender. No prosecutor wants to be seen as “soft on
    crime,” the private prisons need customers and judges don’t want to be
    accused of being an “activist Judge.”

  31. The US government and its corporate overlords are a decade behind. Most
    civilized countries have much more lax drug laws.

  32. I don’t think he meant it in a negative way. I think he meant this as a
    suggestion that this was never about stopping drugs. It was about legally
    discriminating against minorities and instilling fear within communities.
    With African Americans making up 40% of the drug use in American but 75% of
    the prison population for drug use. There is either a fundamental flaw or a
    deliberate execution. My numbers are paraphrased from TYT

  33. Of course no one should use heroin but people will still use it. If a
    person ends up using harmful substances like heroin and are not producing
    and selling it then they should be treated for their addictions instead of
    being thrown into prison. I do not think heroin should ever be legalized
    but it should be decriminalized for small amount so that drug addicts are
    not labeled as criminals.

  34. The “war” on drugs has been a wasteful 3 trillion dollar failure that
    hasn’t reduced drug use, drug dealing, or addiction rates. The only thing
    it has produced is more violent gangs, a nation that houses 25% of the
    world’s prison population, and lavish profits for the private prison
    industry. Think about it.

  36. according to depraved, delusional progressive minds dealing drugs to
    people, breaking up families, ruining lives is non-violent crime.
    fortunately, federal prosecutions amount to less than 5% of all
    prosecutions so this action by Holder to favor his brothers is not relevant

  37. Once again, government is about a decade behind popular opinion. What do we
    pay these politicians for again?

  38. Just legalize it all, for goodness sake they legalized self euthanasia
    already. They make test kits for ecstasy and their always sold out, Heroine
    use to be legal, cocaine in Coca Cola but society didn’t fall apart. For
    fuck sakes I know two successful programmers who use meth and have been
    using it for years. Though that’s the most powerful drug I know and easy to
    get addicted, but so is alcohol.

  39. I am not saying anyone should use heroin, but you must see it is better
    that a lab or factory is producing is verses who knows- decriminalizing for
    users is nice but no reason for baby steps on this. Prohibitionists will
    cry about problems caused by decriminalization vs legalization just as they
    cry about the effects of the war on drugs currently.

  40. Uh. Every war is lost by one side. The war on drugs maybe losing but it is
    losing to liberty.

  42. Hopefully these measures will pass and give Sheriff Joe Arpaio a heart
    attack(it’s about time he fuckin’ died)

  44. Drugs should be controlled not illegal For instance, there are age
    restrictions on the use and sale of alcohol. There are alcohol
    manufacturing regulations. There are many and a variety of laws pertaining
    to selling alcohol. Whether it is in a state controlled alcohol beverage
    store, a privatized alcohol beverage store overseen by the state or an
    establishment selling alcohol for carryout or to drink on site. why not use
    the same methods for marijuana and other drugs?

  45. All drugs should be decriminalized for small personal use. Instead of
    punishing drug users and addicts that end up breaking the law for petty
    crimes they should be treated for their addictions. Drug use should be seen
    as a health matter and not a criminal issue. It should still be illegal to
    produce and sell drugs though. This would free up resources so that law
    enforcement could go after the real criminals, the ones producing hard and
    destructive drugs.

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