I disagree. He's not playing around. And increasing prison sentences for drug crimes is good for two things:
1) It's used to put guys who did really bad things, but hard to prove, away for easy things like drug possession
2) My for-profit-prison stocks are going through the roof
These Cultural Marxist highjack every good cause and turn it into social justice. Check out the board of directors.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog
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Board
(Executive Committee in Bold)
The Hon. Larry Campbell
Senator, The Senate of Canada
Christine Downton
Former Vice Chairman and Founding Partner of Pareto Partners
Jodie Evans
Co-founder, CODEPINK
James E. Ferguson, II
Senior Partner, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers Law Offices, Charlotte, North Carolina
Jason Flom
President, Lava Records
Ira Glasser, President
President of Board
Former Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Carl Hart, PhD
Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry, Columbia University
Kenneth Hertz
Senior Partner, Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP
David C. Lewis, MD
Founding Director, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
Pamela Lichty
President, Drug Policy Forum of Hawai'i
Svante Myrick
Mayor of Ithaca, New York
Angela Pacheco
Former District Attorney, 1st Judicial District, New Mexico
Josiah Rich, MD
Professor of Medicine and Community Health, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Rev. Edwin Sanders, Secretary
Senior Servant, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church
Coordinator, Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy
George Soros
Chairman, Soros Fund Management
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
Director, Igarapé Institute
U. S. Honorary Board
Former Mayor Rocky Anderson
Harry Belafonte
Former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci
Deepak Chopra
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Walter Cronkite [1916-2009]
Ram Dass
Dr. Vincent Dole [1913-2006]
Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders
U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.)
Former Police Chief Penny Harrington
Calvin Hill
Arianna Huffington
Former Governor Gary Johnson
U.S. District Court Judge John Kane
Former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach [1922-2012]
Former Police Chief Joseph McNamara [1934-2014]
Former Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy [1920-2011]
Dr. Beny J. Primm [1928-2015]
Dennis Rivera
Former Mayor Kurt Schmoke
Dr. Charles Schuster [1930-2011]
Alexander Shulgin [1925-2014]
Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz
Russell Simmons
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker
International Honorary Board (In Formation)
Richard Branson
Ruth Dreifuss
Václav Havel [1936-2011]
Sting