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Jeff Sessions Wants Stricter Punishment For Drug Offenders

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U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?
 
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?

I don't think the 'war on drugs' makes sense. We've tried it for lifetime and have only managed to grow stronger mob and warlords all around the world.
 
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?

It seems to me that our gutless and cowardly legislators need to reclassify marijuana.
 
Some might expect Neanderthal thinking coming from Alabama politicians, and Sessions shows why. :doh
 
Another dinosaur that has to keep saying what he has been saying to avoid facing the simple fact that his supposedly principled beliefs have wrought only woe.
 
Some might expect Neanderthal thinking coming from Alabama politicians, and Sessions shows why. :doh

He even advocated that drug dealers should be put to death for a second time offense.
 
Sessions of course wants great penalties because he is invested financially in private prisons.
 
Simple answer, follow the money trail. Who gets oodles of free money from drug seizures? Who has a large union to influence politicians? What private institution with their own lobbying dollars houses these criminals via taxpayer moneys? Hmmmm. Pretty logical once you start thinking like a cynic :)
 
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?

You should look at mandatory minimum sentences for drugs on the federal scale where the doj has authority, all of it involves manufacturors and sellers, and usually over a certain amount. In other words the biggest non story of the year unless you are the guy flipping out because his bag of weed gone up 15 bucks because of increased risks for sellers.

Under a certain threshold, even sellers and makers do not fall under minimum mandatory sentance guidelines, and often fall under state law anyways. I am sorry a guy making and selling meth is not a low end user, and pot smokers are not covered under minimum mandatory sentences unless their pot smoking involves growing a farm of it.
 
You should look at mandatory minimum sentences for drugs on the federal scale where the doj has authority, all of it involves manufacturors and sellers, and usually over a certain amount. In other words the biggest non story of the year unless you are the guy flipping out because his bag of weed gone up 15 bucks because of increased risks for sellers.

Under a certain threshold, even sellers and makers do not fall under minimum mandatory sentance guidelines, and often fall under state law anyways. I am sorry a guy making and selling meth is not a low end user, and pot smokers are not covered under minimum mandatory sentences unless their pot smoking involves growing a farm of it.

The war on drugs failed. All it did was create massive socioeconomic harm and cost of tons of money every year. It didn't stop people from doing drugs or even make a dent.

Personal feelings about drugs are irrelevant to rational policy. Sessions wants to go back to what didn't work.

:shrug:




Nevermind that mandatory minimums are rather antithetical to the concept of having a legally trained judge who is familiar with criminal cases, increasingly so over the years, apply his knowledge in determining a sentence. All mandatory minimums do is stop judges from giving lenience when the situation generally calls for it, ie, someone who really did only try to smuggle those drugs in because his family was being threatened/held hostage were he not (it happens; mainly South America --> US ).
 
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The war on drugs failed. All it did was create massive socioeconomic harm and cost of tons of money every year. It didn't stop people from doing drugs or even make a dent.

Personal feelings about drugs are irrelevant to rational policy. Sessions wants to go back to what didn't work.

:shrug:




Nevermind that mandatory minimums are rather antithetical to the concept of having a legally trained judge who is familiar with criminal cases, increasingly so over the years, apply his knowledge in determining a sentence. All mandatory minimums do is stop judges from giving lenience when the situation generally calls for it, ie, someone who really did only try to smuggle those drugs in because his family was being threatened/held hostage were he not (it happens; mainly South America --> US ).

I am not for mandatory minimum sentences, just calling out the sky is falling sessions is gonna lock people away with minimum mandatory sentences for having a joint crowd. I called out the hysterical who failed to even read the laws which they were griping about.

Were it me mms would end, as well as bill clintons stupid yet unenforced law allowing the death penalty for growing weed over a certain number of plants, that god he never made that one mandatory minumum.
 
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
 
The war on drugs failed. All it did was create massive socioeconomic harm and cost of tons of money every year. It didn't stop people from doing drugs or even make a dent.

Personal feelings about drugs are irrelevant to rational policy. Sessions wants to go back to what didn't work.

:shrug:




Nevermind that mandatory minimums are rather antithetical to the concept of having a legally trained judge who is familiar with criminal cases, increasingly so over the years, apply his knowledge in determining a sentence. All mandatory minimums do is stop judges from giving lenience when the situation generally calls for it, ie, someone who really did only try to smuggle those drugs in because his family was being threatened/held hostage were he not (it happens; mainly South America --> US ).

So many things in life depend upon one's perspective, obviously.

For those individuals and agencies who benefit from the war on drugs, life is good, and the war on drugs has been a fantastic success with ever growing budgets.
 
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions released a memo on his new criminal charging and sentencing policy Friday in a move widely seen as likely to rejuvenate the war on drugs and fill up federal prisons.

The Sessions memo orders federal prosecutors to charge defendants with the most serious possible offense—which would carry the longest prison sentence. That cancels the more progressive policy enacted by ex-attorney general Eric Holder in 2013, which had prosecutors shift away from seeking mandatory minimum penalties for low-level offenders.

How Jeff Sessions? Drug Sentencing Guidelines Could Restart War On Drugs

It seems to me the majority of Americans want o end the drug war. I realize that a majority of republicans may want this, but how is falling suit with a failed effort going to help?


I have been behind the curve here. Have not read too much about the War on Drugs recently.
So have to go back to a question I posed a decade ago.
How much does the US spend on the war including the cost of incarcerating the "captured" POWs?
I don't recall.
But a follow on question would be: what would be the cost of medical and psychological treatment of all users if all drugs were all legal? Make them legal and then care for the addicts. How much would that cost?
Seems to me if the war on drugs is the moral thing to do for some people... regardless of cost?
 
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