03/12/2019
https://congress.gov...
"The Major Drug Traffic and Prosecution Act would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses and redirect Federal prosecutorial resources toward major drug traffickers."
"The current sentencing requirements have failed to accomplish the legislative intent of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act."
"Moreover the act has had a disparate impact on the African American community, resulting in the incarceration of a disproportionate number of African Americans often for many, many years."
"I just want to dispel the notion that any community is being helped by being treated differently."