Repealing the harsher sentences make perfect sense for a number of reason. The way the laws are written in the books is highly unfair to the poor young man no matter how misguided or vile he may be.
First, the supreme has recently rule that giving major offender more time is not constitional and has reduce their sentence. Now that was backwards y’all and even insidious. Why? These are the major drug dealers and mostly the most violent offenders who won’t change and will only find other ways to commit crimes.
Second, the laws did not work. If there are less crackheads out there now, it is not because of the law, it is because people started realizing that this drug is much more addictive than pot. Or even worse, heroin is making a comeback or people are trying the next drug that they think they can smoke without reprecussions which is sad.
Third, it is keeping alot of young boys from having fathers. Guess what will keep crime down? Young boys with even a half of a father warning them about the perils of drugs, so that they won’t make the same mistakes that their fathers did.
Fourth, it creates a prison mentality that is spoken about in the rap songs (Oh, you though it was the rap music). This mentality says that it is alright and even cool to go to prison and overlooks the fact that it may cause you to have a felony record.
Look, I am not making excuses for people for break the law. If you do the crime, you should do the time. But you have to ask yourselves is arresting a bunch of poor boys from the projects for saling crack and keeping them in prison for five years making the community safer and helping minorities or is it hurting them in the end. How many people who were knuckleheads early in their life are successful people now. I will give you a hint: bush and obama. I say lock up both the big time and small time dealer, but don’t give the small time dealer as much time or more time in prison than the people who bring the drugs into the country. After all, you don’t give a person who’s been speeding the same kind of punishment as one who has committed manslaughter while driving drunk.
