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Friday, January 8, 2010

[MahdiUniteMuslims] Send Your Congresspersons an automated Letter to END UNJUST DRUG LAWS!

 

Send Your Congresspersons an automated Letter to END UNJUST DRUG LAWS!

from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #615, 1/8/10

Phillip S. Smith, Writer/Editor

Whom do you picture when you read the phrase "drug dealer"? It's probably not the subjects of this book. They're white, upper-middle class and beyond, upwardly mobile college students blithely enmeshed in a web of criminality -- drug use and sales -- that, for them at least, goes unnoticed, and even when noticed, largely unpunished.

And that really irks Mohamed and Fritsvold, a pair of Southern California sociologists who gained entrée into a network of drug sellers and users centered on a private college in San Diego and then spent six years interviewing and observing them as they partied hearty, gobbled and swapped pills, and peddled dope with reckless abandon. It's not, as the authors make clear, that they wish their student subjects were punished with the same heavy hand awaiting a poor black kid slinging crack in on an inner city street corner.

In fact, Mohamed and Fritsvold make equally clear that they view US drug policies as harsh and counterproductive, in no small part because of the race and class biases they so inarguably exhibit. Healthy chunks of "Dorm Room Dealers" are devoted to delineating in detail just how racially skewed and cleaved by class the application of American drug laws are. That's what really irks the authors

<http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/615/book_review_dorm_room_dealers>

Please, help rescind the illegal, racist, unfair crack-cocaine mandatory sentencing drug law by sending an automated letter to all your congresspersons! Humane Drug treatment and rehab rather than costly tortuous for-profit prisons!

<http://capwiz.com/drcnet/issues/alert/?alertid=14420161>   


The wicked ENDTIME - NOT the RIGHTEOUS.

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