The idea of mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes is completely impractical.
The federal government would have to double their current staff of prosecutors just to deal with the massive increase in their caseload as a result of no one pleading guilty to drug offences. Either that or prosecutors and police would have to start making serious policy decisions as to when to charge and when to let things slide, and would have to do so on a much greater scale than is already the case. The only logical result would be the effective legalization of simple possession and small scale PPT offences: it simply wouldn't be possible to go after anyone other than medium to large scale offenders.
This is either political posturing, or complete detachment from reality on the part of the Conservatives. Neither would shock me.
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