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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (846800)4/1/2015 3:03:20 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575617
 
<<Obama wants to legalize more than just marijuana>>

You're projecting right-wing paranoia. Obama had his staff identify some more non-violent Federal drug criminals with prison records that justified us no longer paying to keep them incarcerated. That's all. I'm sure he could explain each one of them, if questioned.

Never fear. We still have more people in prison per capita than any other nation on Earth.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (846800)4/1/2015 3:22:46 PM
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>> Obama wants to legalize more than just marijuana, and he wants to raise the threshold between possession and distribution.

I really think legalization of other drugs besides marijuana is a bad idea at this time. Most of these drugs are very dangerous, but the real problem is there is not any reasonable framework for legalizing them. If you legalize, e.g., cocaine, what is the sense is selling Oxycodone via highly controlled prescriptions.

I take Ambien to sleep, the smallest dosage available, and if I request a refill a couple days early you'd think I was ordering an ounce of Meth. How does this make sense in the context of legal cocaine or, as some libertarians propose, heroin?

Our country is suffering badly today from a lot of policy that has not been thought through, or even given reasonable consideration (okay, I'm thinking of the ACA, but there are others).

There is a very odd connection, if you will, between the War on Drugs and Obamacare. Neither was given a reasonable degree of thought before the fact. In fact, both were outgrowths of purely political objectives smattered with a tad of good intention: "It'll look good, and who knows, it might help someone."

Before the War on Drugs was formally turned loose on the public, AG Kleindeinst created a task force which decided to test some of the concepts. In Phoenix, they arrested, simultaneously, every known street dealer who had ever been arrested before or that they knew they could. They flooded the city with "buy money", more than had ever been deployed before. It amounted to 76 dealers arrested at once, which was a lot for the time. For one week it was impossible to buy drugs in Phoenix. Within 30 days, Phoenix drug sales were back to normal.

In San Diego, they did something similar limiting it to heroin only. Same result: A week later, things started returning to normal, and ultimately, within a month, no one could tell anything happened.

They did the same things in other cities, same result. The obvious conclusion: You cannot kill drugs on the supply side. Yet, knowing this, the drug war has been pursued with counterproductive results for decades, having locked up thousands of people, spent billions, confiscated billions, and developed an entire bureaucracy around it.

That last paragraph could be used to describe the Obamacare law almost without change.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (846800)4/1/2015 4:49:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 1575617
 
Full list below: ( I see a number of mentions of cocaine base, whatever that is). There is one marijuana guy ... he had 1000+ marijuana plants:

- Terry Andre Barnes – East Moline, IL

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; supervised release violation (distribution of cocaine base) (Southern District of Iowa)

Sentence: 246 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (July 25, 2005)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Theresa Brown – Pompano Beach, FL

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine (Southern District of Florida)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Mar. 29, 1995)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Donel Marcus Clark – Dallas, TX

Offense: Conspiracy; use of a communication facility (five counts); distribution and/or possession of cocaine or manufacturing in or near a school facility, aiding and abetting (Northern District of Texas)

Sentence: 420 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (Nov. 12, 1993); amended to 360 months’ imprisonment (August 20, 2008)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Ricky Bernard Coggins – Tallahassee, FL

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (Northern District of Florida)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (May 3, 1993)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Samuel Pasqual Edmondson – Junction City, KS

Offense: Conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine (Eastern District of Texas)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Sep. 24, 1997)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Amado Garcia – Fresno, CA

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine; aiding and abetting the possession of methamphetamine; aiding and abetting the possession of heroin (District of Wyoming)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $2,000 fine (Nov. 29, 2001)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Dwight Anthony Goddard – Decatur, GA

Offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (Middle District of Georgia)

Sentence: 235 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Feb. 7, 2002)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Lionel Ray Hairston – Ridgeway, VA

Offense: Distribution of cocaine base (three counts) (Western District of Virginia)

Sentence: 262 months’ imprisonment; eight years’ supervised release (May 27, 1999)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Francis Darrell Hayden – Loretto, KY

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants or 1,000 or more kilograms of marijuana; manufacture of 1,000 or more marijuana plants (Eastern District of Michigan)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Apr. 2, 2002)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Harold Kenneth Herring – Havana, FL

Offense: Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (Northern District of Florida)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Jan. 22, 1998)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Tommie Lee Hollingshed – Memphis, TN

Offense: Distribution of a controlled substance (two counts) (Western District of Tennessee)

Sentence: 324 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (May 1, 1996)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Derrick DeWayne Johnson – Birmingham, AL

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine (Northern District of Alabama)

Sentence: 360 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (Nov. 18, 1998)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months.

· Robert Martinez-Gil – San Antonio, TX

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin (Western District of Texas)

Sentence: Life imprisonment (July 9, 1992)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· David Navejar – Brooksville, FL

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine (Middle District of Florida)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Jan. 27, 2003)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Rudolph Norris – Washington, D.C.

Offense: Unlawful distribution of cocaine base; unlawful possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base (District of Columbia)

Sentence: 360 months’ imprisonment; eight years’ supervised release (Apr. 5, 1993)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Tracy Lynn Petty – Shelby, NC

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (Western District of North Carolina)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Mar. 30, 2006); amended to 204 months’ imprisonment (February 25, 2008)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Luis Razo – Davenport, IA

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine (Southern District of Iowa)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Jan. 3, 2003)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Antwon Rogers – Cleveland, OH

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 139.8 grams of cocaine base (Northern District of Ohio)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Jan. 30, 1995)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Herman Rosenboro –Kingsport, TN

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and over 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of a quantity of cocaine base (two counts); distribution of a quantity of cocaine (two counts) (Eastern District of Tennessee)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; six years’ supervised release (Dec. 3, 2001)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Lawrence Elmo Scott – Lynchburg, VA

Offense: Distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school (Western District of Virginia)

Sentence: 283 months’ imprisonment; six years’ supervised release; $4,000 fine (Apr. 8, 2003)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Levar V. Wade – Chicago, IL

Offense: Possession of 50 or more grams of crack cocaine with intent to distribute (Central District of Illinois)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (May 28, 2004)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

· Eugene Winters – Cedar Rapids, IA

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base (Southern District of Iowa)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Feb. 23, 2005)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 28, 2015.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/31/president-obama-commutes-22-drug-offenders-sentences-good-luck-and-godspeed/


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