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Money locking up the wrong people. >> hmm. >> and speaking of libertarians, rand paul, a leading voice in this effort. testified in front of the senate judiciary committee yesterday. a little of what he had to say. >> the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white. but 3/4 of the people in prison for drugs are african-american or latino. why are arrest rates so lopsided? it's frankly easier to go into the urban areas and make arrests than to go into suburban areas. arrest statistics matter when applying for federal grants. it doesn't take much imagination to understand it'...

>> reporter: and in the past year, alabama, tennessee and georgia have each reduced harsh sentencing and each are republican-run legislators. >> tim leech, yore voice on the iss issue. from the cato institute. libber taryn think tank and author of "after prohibition." and a member of the d.c. and supreme court bar. let's get right to it. what is the libertarian critique of these high jail terms in the war on drugs? >> well, one of the things that has happened is you have a lot of tea party people coming and joining forces with liberals, because the tea party people and libertarians start with ...

Colorado that are going even further than eric holder in rethinking the war on drugs. voters in those two states approved referendum last november that is going to end the war on marijuana in those states. that's going to have a dramatic impact on their state systems, and we're going to see more movement in that direction in the coming years. that's the type of thing that's going to have a dramatic impact on our system. >> tim, i absolutely agree with you on almost frg you said. i love you used referendum. doesn't get into the conversation enough. in a lot of states these convictions lead to p...