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Upcoming JEC hearing on costs of US drug policy

By Douglas A. Berman

According to this webpage at FAMM, later this week "Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) will convene a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) to examine the economic consequences of the United States' drug policy."  Here are more details:The hearing, entitled ?U.S. Drug Policy: At What Cost?? will be held Thursday, June 19.  The panel will discuss the illegal drug economy in the United States, assess the costs of U.S. policy responses to combatting drug use and address the need for policy reforms.  The hearing is also likely to address, to some extent, mandatory minimums and sentencing issues. This page at Stop the Drug War lists expected witnesses, though I cannot yet find any official notice of the scheduled hearing. As noted in prior posts linked below, last year Senator Webb convened a JEC hearing on the costs of mass incarceration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).