The reaction. Mark . He didnt talk about federal prosecution of medical marijuana but eric holder wants to scale back on the amount of prison time for what he called lowlevel nonviolent drug offenders. Hes going to instruct u. S. Attorneys to reduce charges to limit those mandatory minimum sentences. At the American Bar Association meeting this morning attorney general holder call forward a gnaw approach to inen forcing drug laws. Very mandated a modification of the justice departments charging policies so certain low level, nonviolent drug offenders will no longer be charged with offense thats impose draconian mandatory sentence autos holder says since 19 80s the countrys population increased by a third but federal prison population has gone up 800 . We cannot simply prosecute our way to becoming a safer nation. Holder says hes trouble bid a report black male drug offenders are receiving sentence thats are 20 longer than those on white males convicted of similar crimes. This isnt just