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Compared to the powdered kind of cocaine. but he rejected that recommendation and decided to keep the draconian sentencing in place for crack. now, of course, over all these years and all of these presidents and re-declarations of war, there's been no real effect on american drug use. there has just been a vast expansion of the criminal justice system. criminal justice system at its least effective and most intrusive. and it has never seemed like it would ever get any better. if you are 40 years old, say, then your life has spanned the drug war. all of your teenage years, your 20s, 30s, have b...

Overturn those state laws legalizing pot, thus rendering pot illegal nationwide, full stop. that is pretty much what everybody was expecting. today the justice department said they are not going to do that. in a letter to all federal prosecu prosecutors, the attorney general's office says colorado and washington effectively can move ahead with decriminalizing pot for personal use in those states. the justice department says that states need to abide by some law enforcement priorities in terms of the way they regulate pot. things like keeping it away from kids and preventing interstate traffic ...

Pot illegal nationwide, full stop. that is pretty much what everybody was expecting. today the justice department said they are not going to do that. in a letter to all federal prosecutors, the attorney general's office says colorado and washington effectively can move ahead with decriminalizing pot for personal use in those states. the justice department says that states need to abide by some law enforcement priorities in terms of the way they regulate pot. things like keeping it away from kids and preventing interstate traffic and preventing drugged driving and some other stuff, but the head...

Administration but every american president to come after him for a constant sisfissian struggle against something that never got better, something that was made worse by them fighting it. jimmy carter tried to undo some of it in the 1970s but reagan ramped it up to a higher pitch than ever when he took over. the 1980s saw mandatory minimum sentencing laws passed and three-strike laws. poppy bush, george h.w. bush re-declared the war on drugs and arrest numbers related to pot shot through the roof. all the policy changes went in the same direction. more draconian laws. more enforcement. more p...

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