House passes bill to reduce cocaine penalty disparity: "Ending a decade-long campaign led by African-American lawmakers, the House Wednesday approved and sent to President Barack Obama a measure to reduce the disparity in penalties between use of crack and powder cocaine.
Dave's Take: Good. This means we won't have to pay 15 years' worth of room and board because a cop busted someone from the sales department upstairs. I don't touch the stuff, but I still feel sentencing for possession alone is way too harsh to this day.
No comments:
Post a Comment