Minimum mandatory drug sentencing.

Since the 1980's the war on drugs resulted in stiff minimum mandatory sentences for drug traffickers caught with boatloads of drugs imported from foreign countries.

Somehow the minimum mandatory drug trafficking sentences were amended to include as little as seven prescription pain pills. Somehow, someone addicted to pain medication after an injury was included in this web meant for big-time drug traffickers. This has to stop. We cannot economically handle the drain on our society to prosecute and warehouse these individuals who simply need some drug treatment. These people--our sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters--who suffer pain prescription drug medication addictions can more economically be counseled and treated, as opposed to being warehoused in our prisons and labeled convicted felons.

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