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The Republican House and Drug Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Republican House and Drug Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Phillip Smith, November 10, 2010, 03:01am, (Issue #658) Last week, a resurgent Republican Party retook control of the US House of Representatives, giving the Democrats a drubbing the likes of which has not been seen for decades. The Democrats lost 61 seats, seeing their side sink to 189 seats to the Republicans' 240. They needed 218 to take over again. The change in control of the House has some serious drug policy implications. There's bad news, but maybe also some good news. Reform measures passed in the current Congress, such as repealing the bans on federal funding of needle exchange programs and implementation of the Washington, DC, medical marijuana program, could see attempts to roll them back...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).