to focus on "repeal vs. reform" misses the point: until drugs are legalized, criminal activity will surround the drug trade. the government has little incentive to leaglize drugs. legalization would cause the global economy to collapse and 50 Cent would have nothing left to rap about.

i had a brief chat with someone who knows her stuff on this issue and she said to me that repeal really hasn't any chance, the point is really what kind of reform.

i asked what were the best/worst scenarios, i.e .what would be russell selling out and what would be serious and useful reform. she said the worst case is that russell ok's pataki's proposal, which would limit the most egregious cases of long-sentences for first time users, but affect very few people. she said the best case was for russell to push the state assembly plan, which pataki has opposed, but which would be a serious improvement over the current situation.

i find the article a little suspect for not delving into the what kind of reforms would be "very limited and that would be worse than no deal at all", tho i did like credico's remark that "Well, you got to talk to the people you are making that deal for." (*insert plug for Adolph Reed's Class Notes, which is all about the latter*)

yup, the man quoted in that article is bob gangi, who runs (used to run?) the correctional association of new york, which i'd posted about on this site earlier. he's dope! totally knows what the hell he's talking about and is genuinely involved in this.

www.correctionalassociation.org

fuck russell. people need to listen to organizations like this one!

How exactly would it cause the "global economy" to collapse?

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