Leahy, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has a press release. So does FAMM.
Phil will be doing a feature story on the bill tomorrow, but not in time for tomorrow morning's email editions, so be sure to check Drug War Chronicle this week. (If you don't get the Chronicle by email, you can sign up here.)
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Time Wasted
Congress needs to pass legislation allowing for parole for Federal " inmates " . Especially for " drug crimes " .
sick people can't get med's.
Alice is in Wonderland
Anyone who has truly researched the drug war or its disturbing effects could never offer such an opinion. Ones disconnect from this issue speaks of ignorance, racism, intolerance, injustice and/or fear. Either one allows only a limited view of any issue, broaden your knowledge base before making such uneducated responses. This War has been wages almost exclusively in poor communities of color, where resources are few and many cannot properly defend themselves, and are then swept into the criminal justice system as a result of a social issue, destroying communities and families alike, leaving children to fend for themselves, which many times leads to delinquency,high drop out rates, crime and drug use, which many times leads these children into the very system of incarceration which created the plight they are attempting to escape.
Alice is in wonderland- The REAL disconnect
As long as the prison system is farmed out to corporations that have to please their shareholders, and those shareholders are one and the same politicians who create Drug War policy and writing it into law, despite logic and reason staring everybody in the face, WE are just assets for 'Senator Shareholder' to make more money quick.
Just remember, during the Reagan Administration, the CIA was green lighted to import and sell cocaine by the TON, clearly to by distributed in these same inner city neighborhoods of color, and Mr. 'Just say no' and his cronies were passing those mandatory minimums. Kinda funny it was only a few more years until somebody did the math and came up with the corporate prisons...
No help here
I have just received my answer to a complaint I filed over a year ago concerning the pain med situation as it exists in Vancouver,BC.That's right,the same city with the heroin program.I have been fighting for seven years for the pain meds recommended by my treating neurosurgeon.It took them over a year to say that they agreed with the doctor that refused to prescribe.That as an addict,I had a brain disease?So why is methadone OK when it destroys the liver and kidneys and opiates ,that are benign are a no no.This duplicity is beyond maddening.Methadone hasn't worked for me as an addict.Why would it be any better now?As for the mandatory minimums.They were a terrible idea then and are a terrible idea now.Like everything drug war related,it sux.
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