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9 May 2024, 11:30 am
In contrast, I stopped smoking weed when I began enforcing anti- drug laws, not based on any abstract concern about hypocrisy but because my employer, the United States Department of Justice, required random drug testing of its staff.I resumed my acquaintance with recreational drugs when I started law teaching, which some people would say explains a lot. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 9:52 am
The drug war I study in this book is not the Nixon drug war, not even the Rockefeller-Eisenhower drug war of the ’50s, but the drug war of the late 19th century. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 9:02 am
And the crime of which he was convicted — a remnant of the racist Rockefeller Drug Laws, which provided harsh sentences for drug offenses — is now classified as a misdemeanor. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 2:00 am
But there is another story; over the last 15 years, homicides have tripled in Mexico and as many as 90% of the guns used in drug-related violence come from the United States. [read post]
13 Jul 2021, 10:58 am
This was largely motivated by pharmaceutical firms’ commercial considerations, i.e. stronger patent protections usually result in higher drug prices. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 2:53 am
From the Rockefeller Drug Laws to the federal Sentencing Guidelines, there was one true belief as to the “plague” of drugs, that if the first couple decades of prison weren’t enough to win the war, one more decade of prison would certainly do the trick. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 6:00 am
” It is sustained by fines paid by impaired drivers, and its coordinators “are comprised of diverse professional backgrounds, including law enforcement and non-law enforcement. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 6:00 am
Never ride impaired by alcohol or drugs and discourage other riders from making a bad choice. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 3:22 am
” While the strategy of the Rockefeller Drug laws had been an abysmal failure, ratcheting up sentences under the theory that they would eventually be so harsh that no rational person would risk going near drugs for fear of spending their lives in prison, there really aren’t all that many strategies around to address the phenomenon of crime. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 12:10 am
Brabham has a dual B.A. in Criminal Justice and Sociology from the State University of New York and an M.P.A. from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.Dr. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 12:10 am
Brabham has a dual B.A. in Criminal Justice and Sociology from the State University of New York and an M.P.A. from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.Dr. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 4:00 am
Under a presumption law, the worker is preempted to have sustained a work-related medical condition, if certain eligibility criteria are met. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 11:40 pm
Mom was the Grand Dame of the know-nothing Republican party after she helped kill off the Nelson Rockefeller wing of the G.O.P. [read post]
26 Mar 2020, 3:45 am
The more significant factor was the likelihood of being arrested, not the length of sentence, and so the Rockefeller drug laws failed to produce the desired results. [read post]
4 Jan 2020, 3:38 am
How many years did that drug dealer deserve for being too low on the totem pole to rat anyone important out? [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 3:49 am
But the concept came earlier, as the Rockefeller Drug Laws were premised on the simple notion that the more Draconian the sentence, the less likely someone would commit the crime. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 10:44 am
These reforms include: New York lawmakers in 2009 that reformed the harsh Rockefeller drug laws that required harsh mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenses; California voters in 2014 passed a ballot that reclassified certain low level drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors; and The U.S. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 5:00 am
Rockefeller enacted the “nation’s toughest drug laws” – which did nothing more than turn our college VP into a mediator whose task was to stave off any on-campus undercover presence. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 4:00 am
The Rockefeller Drug laws were enacted in 1973. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:30 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Parkway, would be the first Hispanic director of the NPS. [read post]
