Holder proposes pot crackdown

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. signaled an era of long-awaited change when he vowed to abandon trite War on Drugs rhetoric and stop prosecuting medical marijuana patients in states where medical use of the herb is legal.

But in modern America, no positive changes last too long before political pressure kicks in.

The violence on the Mexican border lately is fueled entirely by the War on Drugs. So what's Holder's solution now? Why, expand the failed drug war, of course.

Holder now says he wants to find a way to lower the minimum amount of marijuana required for federal prosecution for possession.

Really?

Because we've all seen how well this type of stuff has worked before, right?

One has to ask how strong the political pressure to expand the War on Drugs has become. All the drug war has done for decades is expand, and it's never worked.

This idea is probably fueled by the corrupt drug warriors trying to hit up the government for yet more money to buy snazzier toys to play with.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/americas/04mexico.htm)