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...better border security in the U.S. and better policing in Mexico will not make the drug wars go away. Each year an estimated 350 tons of cocaine, together with other drugs, finds its way to the U.S., while more than $25 billion flows south into the cartels' coffers. The Obama Administration hopes to reduce demand by expanding drug-court programs that require rehabilitation. But if the U.S. wants a real, long-term solution to the drug crisis, it is going to have to do more than that...
...York Rockefeller, Reconsidered Governor David Paterson reached an agreement with legislators to scale down the state's Rockefeller drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same...
...Drug Law Reform...
...Emphasizes drug treatment...
...LIFE magazine called him a maverick wizard for his skills as a top mutual-fund manager. But in the '70s, Jack Dreyfus, 95, became a tireless promoter for the epilepsy drug Dilantin as a cure for depression--which he once suffered from--and other ailments...