Kamala Harris Hits Jeff Sessions for 'Dark Ages' Drug Sentencing

[TomCADem]

This is notable given that Kamala Harris is a former DA and State AG.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/kamala-harris-hits-jeff-sessions-for-dark-ages-drug-sentencing-w483014

California Sen. Kamala Harris – who served as a prosecutor, district attorney and state attorney general before winning her seat in Congress – blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' draconian new sentencing guidelines earlier this week.

Speaking at the Center for American Progress' Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C., Harris delivered one of the standout speeches of the event, widely viewed as a showcase for the Democrat's 2020 bench.

Sessions' recent memo ordering federal prosecutors to pursue the harshest sentences possible for low-level nonviolent drug offenders effectively declared the start of the War on Drugs II, Harris says.

"I saw the War on Drugs up close, and, let me tell you, [it] was an abject failure," she tells the audience. "It offered taxpayers a bad return on investment. It was bad for public safety. It was bad for budgets and our economy. And it was bad for people of color and those struggling to make ends meet."

[LunaSea]

1. I wish she'd mentioned the part about

creating criminal empires with prohibition, and its corrupting effects on law enforcement.
I suspect that the ridiculous amounts of money to be made in the illegal drug trade have played too large a part in this nation not having sensible drug policy for this long.