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madmusic

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Sat Dec-09-06 01:41 AM
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Drug reform in the new Congress

Edited on Sat Dec-09-06 01:48 AM by madmusic

The Drug War Chronicle has this interesting new piece entitled "Drug Reform and the Democratic Congress: What's Going to Happen?". Here is a snippet:

There is a whole long list of drug reform-related issues that the Democratically-controlled Congress can address, and hopes are high that after a dozen years of Republican rule on Capitol Hill, progress will come on at least some of them. But will the Democratic Congress really turn out to be Santa Claus, bestowing gifts on a movement long out in the cold, or will it turn out more like the Grinch, offering up tantalizing glimpses of the goodies only to snatch them away?

EDIT: with the link: http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2006/12/drug_reform_in_.html

The article is good. What gets me about these laws is that they are for people, passed by representatives of the people, and most of the people probably have no idea what they really are and what the consequences of them really amount to. And with that, I'll ending with preposition, too.

P.S. No, I don't do drugs, don't even smoke pot. Haven't for years and years.

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Eric J in MN

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Sat Dec-09-06 01:50 AM
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1. It would be great if Congress got rid of mandatory-minimums,

Edited on Sat Dec-09-06 01:52 AM by Eric J in MN

...but I don't predict it will happen in the next 2 years.

We need to give the Democrats a bigger majority in both houses for them to MAYBE have the confidence to do something good which could easily be portrayed as soft-on-crime by the Right Wing Noise Machine.

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madmusic

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Sat Dec-09-06 01:58 AM
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2. It's the buzz all through the legal circles...

All over the blogs. It's BIG. Even the sentencing commission is recommending changes and has been. The Rethugs ignored them. If the People knew what was happening, they would object, too, and want changes.

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Eric J in MN

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Sat Dec-09-06 09:14 AM
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3. I read a bunch of blogs like "Daily Kos" and "This Modern World"

...and I haven't personally seen anything about mandatory-miniumums recently.

I also hadn't seen anything on DU recently about this before your post.

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