Mandatory sentencing (Laissez-Faire, do what you want in your home)

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Mandatory drug sentencing laws for first time non violent offenders is the most ridiculous concept i've ever heard.  This country's become so delusional about the "drug war", people have completely forgotten that drug use is almost always a symptom of another problem, not a cause.

  From: S. Isaac Dealey
  To: CF-Community
  Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:29 AM
  Subject: Re: Laissez-Faire, do what you want in your home (RE: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage)

  So that being the case, the US
  attempts to solve that problem by simply making the drug bans more and
  more strict until we reach this point where someone who makes a stupid
  mistake in college could wind up in jail for a decade (overcrowging in
  prisons = other can o' worms), meanwhile drug dealers continue to get
  rich, and drug abusers continue to commit crimes to support their
  habbits (more so because the drugs are more expensive), still rely on
  public health care when they get sick (and bother to do anything about
  it) and still fail to care for their children and produce more
  criminals.

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