Action Alert on Mandatory Sentencing

This just in from Drug Policy Alliance.

TELL CONGRESS TO OPPOSE HR 1528

They want to increase penalties for every drug offense. They want a mandatory 2-year prison term for anyone who knows someone is selling marijuana on a college campus and fails to report it to the police within 24 hours. They want a mandatory 5-year prison term for someone at a party who passes a marijuana joint to someone who has been enrolled in drug treatment at some point in their life. They want to expand the federal "three strikes and you're out" law to include new offenses, including mandating life imprisonment (with no possibility of parole) for anyone convicted a third time under the RAVE Act.

We fought this same bill last year and managed to keep it off the floor. Now the Prohibition profiteers are bringing it forward again despite the fact that the high court struck down madatory sentencing guidelines recently as being unconstitutional and it contains even more odious provisions than before. They're bringing out the big guns on this one so we have to strike back hard right away.

Take action now.