incarceration

[Jay Marvin]

Around these parts we have a big meth problem. But how many people can we
lock up? Also, what about the difference in sentences between Whites and
Blacks? The drug war is like a big vacuum cleaner that sucks up rights,
and funds, that could be used elsewhere. Having said that. . . .what's the
answer? Should we legalize it? I can never make up my mind.

Jay

Jordan Hayes wrote:

I saw a piece of an interesting show the other night that had an


> interview with an undercover DEA agent (frankly, the shots of him
> working looked more like he was a social worker than a DEA agent) who
> was complaining about the difference between his job in working "real"
> drugs (crack, heroin, cocaine, lsd) and marijuana.  It was contrasted
> with a shot of Orin Hatch saying that marijuana was what was destroying
> our cities and our children.
>