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Eric Holder: "Extreme Drug Warrior"
Tennessee Guerilla Women — Eric Holder, Obama's pick for Attorney General is reportedly an "extreme drug warrior" whose rhetoric on marijuana use is "indistinguishable" from "the most zealous Republican drug warrior." Holder has advocated heavy mandatory minimum sentences and harsher penalties for marijuana. This record appears to be from the mid 1990s, so some cling to the hope that Bolder has since changed, but not changed like Obama has changed. In 2004, Obama supported marijuana decriminalization, but then in ...

Holder As Attorney General Seen Likely To Escalate War On Drugs
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... I remember on--a cover story on cocaine and--this was sometime back in the late '80s--and at that point, I remember reading the article and the article seemed to indicate that, you know, it was [a] drug being used by the middle class and that there were not many consequences for that use. We obviously know that that is not true now.... Certainly, I think, as opposed to the late '80s and the early '90s, I think consumption is down. The Washington City Paper listed Holder's past actions in the war on drugs: In 1996, ...

Holder As Attorney General Seen Likely To Escalate War On Drugs
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I remember on--a cover story on cocaine and--this was sometime back in the late '80s--and at that point, I remember reading the article and the article seemed to indicate that, you know, it was [a] drug being used by the middle class and that there were not many consequences for that use. We obviously know that that is not true now.... Certainly, I think, as opposed to the late '80s and the early '90s, I think consumption is down. The Washington City Paper listed Holder's past actions in the war on drugs: In 1996, ...