Eric Holder

Eric Holder: If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America's drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and injured millions of young people. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. It's a startling turnaround for a country that declared war on drugs in the 1980s, even though it already had some of the toughest laws in the western world. Federal prisons are overflowing with 220,000 inmates, nearly half for drug offences. DALE CUMMINGS / Eric Holder told the American Bar Association the Obama administration wants to move away from a policy of handing out harsh sentences for many drug-related crimes. Low-level, non-violent drug offenders, in particular, should no longer be charged with offences that impose mandatory minimum sentences, Holder said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.