My Comment:  I think this is rediculous, although there is millions arrested in the US every year for drug use, and that number continues to rise, there is no alternative being offered here, except to do away with the law.  How original, just change and do away with the laws you don’t like.  How about implementing programs for rehabilitation, instead of just releasing them back into the populace to commit more crimes?  Or is that just siily?  HELLO!  This will not cure the illness, only ease some pain, the disease is still there, and it will fester until it explodes into a full blown cancer.  But maybe that’s what they want.  Look at this graph from wikipedia:

By Washington Post:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences.

The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Holder unveiled in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco. He also introduced a policy to reduce sentences for elderly, nonviolent inmates and find alternatives to prison for nonviolent criminals.

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Justice Department lawyers have worked for months on the proposals, which Holder wants to make the cornerstone of the rest of his tenure.

“We must face the reality that, as it stands, our system is, in too many ways, broken,” Holder said. “And with an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to rehabilitate — not merely to warehouse and to forget.”

The Washington Post.

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