Fri 16 Oct 2009
There are two new bills out, one in the Senate, the other in the Massachusetts House, that show interesting drug policy developments. The Senate Bill (S.1789) would eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine (see this WaPo article on the subject).
The MA bill (No. 2929) would create a taxation and regulation scheme for marijuana. See the bill here. As you may recall, in November 2008, Massachusetts decriminalized personal possession of marijuana.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:37 am
I think the law enforcement to eliminate the disparity by increasing the penalties for possession of powder cocaine, rather than, as Durbin’s bill does, reducing the sentence for crack could really help a lot.
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