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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130830:08:10:00

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 been about the drug war not only existing but ramping up and up and up with no end in sight no matter what was in charge. except now it finally changing. at least some of it is changing. that sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine that president clinton did not seem fit to act on despite the opinion commission, president clinton didn t seem fit to act on that. under president obama, that was passed through congress and signed into law. president obama signed the bill to fix that disparity with his ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130830:01:10:00

Place for crack. now, of course, over all these years and all of these presidents and redeclarations 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 been about the drug war not only existing but ramping up and up and up with no end in sight no matter what was in charge. except now it finally changing. at least some of it is changing. that sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine that president clinton did not seem fit to act on despite the o ppinion commission, president clinton didn t seem fit to act on that. under president obama, that was ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130830:04:10:00

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 been about the drug war not only existing but ramping up and up and up with no end in sight no matter what was in charge. except now it finally changing. at least some of it is changing. that sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine that president clinton did not seem fit to act on despite the opinion commission, president clinton didn t seem fit to act on that. under preside ....

Tee Clairing , Criminal Justice System , American Drug Use , Your 20s , No End In Sight , President Obama , Bill Clinton , Sentencing Disparity , Opinion Commission , Clinton Didn T , Crack Cocaine ,