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very hard on developing legislation host: 1 short viewpoint from twitter here. we have trista and calling on the independent line from illinois. caller: i just want to say that the war on drugs is the most unsuccessful for in american history. it does nothing more than lock up millions of nonviolent americans in the prison industrial complex because of an outdated law. the controlled substance act of 1970 says cocaine is a schedule to drugs, yet marijuana is a schedule one drug, saying it has no medical value. we need to take a look and maybe revamp the whole thing. i would think any...

incarcerated for drug abuse and for illegal drugs. but in the meantime, you'll have the pharmacist who says, come to my place and i will fill your prescriptions for the oxycontin and any other medication that they can. how are you delineating what is a disease and what is criminal activity? it seems the selectivity when a young black kid is involved with drugs, that is a criminal problem. when a person such as the police command or the judge or the prosecutor comes in and it's a prescription filled for their xanax and furthers ala -- zoloft. i mean we are dispensing of these prescrip...

media regulation and the first amendment. and coming up this hour, former john mccain adviser will talk about president obama's meeting with afghan president karzai over the weekend. later a discussion on the changing nature of the workplace with part of the white house formwork place with flexibility. this is "washington journal." . . is proposing to open a vast expanse of water along the atlantic coastline, eastern gulf of mexico, and north coast of alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said tuesday. that is of the lead couple of paragraph...