The times they are a changing, and I am sure the DEA and the drug industry are pulling their hair out by the fistfulls. In what can only be earth shattering news, Senator Webb of Virginia has stated that Legalization of Marijuana must be on the table as he and others in Washington tackle Prison Reform. With 14 states seeking to Legalize Medical Marijuana, with 13 states having already approved Medical Marijuana, we are moving every closer to getting our Civil Rights back. If you think about it, how can you make criminals out of 20 percent of America's population under the false quise that Marijuana is a Gateway Drug.Webb: Pot legalization ‘on the table’ in prison reform effort
via The Hill
The leader of a congressional effort to reform the criminal justice system said Thursday that all issues — including drug legalization — need to be on the table.
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who has made criminal justice and prison reform a signature issue of his this year in Congress, is the most high-profile lawmaker to indicate openness to drug decriminalization or outright legalization.
“Well, I think what we need to do is to put all of the issues on the table,” Webb said this morning on CNN if asked if marijuana legalization would be part of his criminal justice reform efforts.
“If you go back to 1980 as a starting point, I think we had 40,000 people in prison on drug charges, and today, we have about 500,000 of them,” the first-term Virginia lawmaker said. “And the great majority of those are nonviolent crimes — possession crimes or minor sales.”
