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huffdaddy
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 Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:44 am Post subject: Obama would ease drug sentencing |
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/581041,CST-NWS-obama30.article
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September 30, 2007
BY NEDRA PICKLER
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would relax drug sentencing laws and address vast racial inequities in the justice system as part of his crime policy.
The Illinois senator said he would review mandatory minimum drug sentencing and give first-time, nonviolent drug offenders a chance to serve their sentence in drug rehabilitation programs instead of prison.
''If you're convicted of a crime involving drugs, of course you should be punished,'' Obama said in a speech at Howard University's opening convocation. ''But let's not make the punishment for crack cocaine that much more severe than the punishment for powder cocaine when the real difference is where the people are using them or who is using them.''
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Great start. The question is, if he gets the nomination, how bad will the conservative right spin this against him? With Ron Paul's support of drug legalization, will the GOP lose their ability to label it a "liberal" soft-on-crime issue? |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Yep...he inhaled. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: Re: Obama would ease drug sentencing |
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/581041,CST-NWS-obama30.article
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September 30, 2007
BY NEDRA PICKLER
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would relax drug sentencing laws and address vast racial inequities in the justice system as part of his crime policy.
The Illinois senator said he would review mandatory minimum drug sentencing and give first-time, nonviolent drug offenders a chance to serve their sentence in drug rehabilitation programs instead of prison.
''If you're convicted of a crime involving drugs, of course you should be punished,'' Obama said in a speech at Howard University's opening convocation. ''But let's not make the punishment for crack cocaine that much more severe than the punishment for powder cocaine when the real difference is where the people are using them or who is using them.''
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Great start. The question is, if he gets the nomination, how bad will the conservative right spin this against him? With Ron Paul's support of drug legalization, will the GOP lose their ability to label it a "liberal" soft-on-crime issue? |
There are millions of Americans who have taken drugs and there is a serious drug problem that is not going to be dealt with by simply being as cruel as possible. Jeb Bush's own daughter had a drug problem, so did Al Gore's son. We don't need to be destroying peoples' lives over a first offence over drugs. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Official priorities are largely out of kilter.
Pharmaceutical racketeers & 3-piece suit drug-pushers ought to be firmly held into account.
As history clearly shows, prohibition is philosophically flawed, & fundamentally criminal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars |
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