http://talkleft.com/new_archives/010374.html
Holy freaking cow.
This is the kind of thing that just incenses me when America blabs on about how it's spreading freedom to the oppressed peoples of the world. How, exactly, is throwing everybody in jail for 5 or 10 years -- as a minimum
mandatory sentence -- dealing with the so-called "drug problem"? Don't bother with treatment, don't bother with cutting off the problem at the roots -- the growers and extremely high-level distributors --
let's throw parents in jail for 3 years if they have knowledge of their child being somehow involved with drugs and they don't report them within 24 hours to the DEA.
Freedom indeed.
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the bill would also create a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time conviction of distributing a small amount of marijuana to a person under 18 years of age ... and a 10-year sentence for a second offense of distributing marijuana to a person under 21. By comparison, the average time served by convicted rapists in this country is about seven years.
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(Emphasis mine.)