Saying the U.S. prison population is "outsized and unnecessarily large," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today said he has ordered changes in Justice Department polices so that some low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or drug cartels won't be charged with crimes that impose "draconian mandatory minimum sentences." In a speech at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates in San Francisco, Holder said the United States can't prosecute or incarcerate its way to becoming a safer nation. He urged that incarceration be used to "punish, deter, and rehabilitate -- not merely to warehouse and forget." Get complete
Let's hope this type of thing becomes more common (common sense).
Amen brother. I got caught with a gram of pot back in high school and the w I was treated, I might as well have been slingin that rock.
For the last 5 years Holder has been the Poster Child for locking up Cannabi users...now he's acting like a reformer...what took him so long to figure th out...weed has only been around THOUSANDS of years, and he's just waking up? What an A-hole.
Re: Re: CNN Breaking News
By: Owl to Dreamer on Tue Aug 13 2013 21:44:00
For the last 5 years Holder has been the Poster Child for locking up Cann users...now he's acting like a reformer...what took him so long to figure out...weed has only been around THOUSANDS of years, and he's just waking What an A-hole.
I'll put my money on some of these sudden changes being made
simply to try to paint the USA in a less draconian light than we've been proven to be following (at the level of the federal government, at the
very least). We've been getting bashed by other countries, and our own citizens have been bitching for reform on these policies since Reagan, at the very least. I remember the debate on that crap on TV when I was a
kid.
With Manning and Snowden, and hopefully a few more integrity
bearing individuals with the selflessness to put their own lives on the
line to keep the public truly informed about what is happening behind
closed doors in our government, the whole world is seeing through the lies that so many of us have suspected smelled fishy now. Hell, I heard
someone say that we've lost ~10% of overseas business contracts [I'm guessing it's in a specific sector and was over generalized, but I'm not sure, I haven't gotten around to verifying it] because of the NSA's own information being released regarding the fact that they record every
single electronic conversation that takes place within the border here, after lying for a long time about only collecting meta-data. Not to
mention the fact that the NSA is still quite brazenly going about its
LEGAL mission to wiretap everything it can get its slimy appendages onto outside of our borders. Funny how that last bit hasn't made it into the media in this country, isn't it?
Anyway, yeah. It's damage control about our worldwide public
image right now, I think. This, and drone strikes, and WWIII, I don't
know where to draw the line on what we've done that's pissing the world off... So I'll shut the hell up right here. :)
I agree. A-hole incarnate, at the very least.
-The opinions expressed are not necessarily an advocation of any of the aforementioned ideologies, concepts, or actions. We still have the freedom speech, for now, and I enjoy using it in a satirical or ficticious manner to amuse myself-
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a
revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Amen...you are so correct. Hemp can replace cotton, nylon, mercury laden fi oil (it has omega 3), paper from trees, petroleum/ethanol (its a fuel), 100s drugs, rope, and so on hundreds of products. Hemp requires no chemicals to grow, and 2 to 3 crops can be harvsted a year (its a weed). Its environmentally safe, and oh yeah no one has EVER died from weed. Sounds li a gift from GOD to me....so what does our f*cked up world do? It makes it illegal! WTF? People are actually incarcerated for the safest plant on the planet? I live in California where it is somewhat legal for medicine....but hey if someone wants to get high for fun...so what! Doesn't our government have something better to do, like go bomb a 3rd world country or something?
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