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(3,910 posts) Fri Aug 16, 2013, 02:22 PM Aug 2013

Ring of Fire's Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss America's disastrous "War on Drugs," as well as New York's "Stop And Frisk" program.

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Seder: The DOJ's New Stance on Low Level Drug Offenses (Original Post) GoLeft TV Aug 2013 OP

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1. U.S. most incarcerated population in the world.... Inmates are a big business for private prisons...

Fri Aug 16, 2013, 03:07 PM

Aug 2013

I will believe this new discussion on drug laws win I see the details of this new thought on the war on drugs... via removing mandatory minimum, Reagan movement, sentencing....

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2004/06/06/771/56276/otherpolitics/Another-Reagan-Legacy-Mandatory-Minimum-Drug-Sentences

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2. So I guess this will mean DEA/DoJ will NOT be raiding any more medical pot dispensaries?