Then it will be clear why it is unwise to make wholesale. oneway lenient changes in drug sentencing. In fiscal year 2013. the most recent year we have statistics. according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission there were 2.332 drug possession cases in the Federal prison. Almost 94 percent involved marijuana. more than 86 percent were against noncitizens. and 88 percent of the cases arose along the southwest border. so it is clear why so many noncitizens were charged. Federal drug possessors were rarely prosecuted for small quantities. The median amount of drug possession in these southwest border cases. which are 88 percent of the Federal drug possession cases. was about 48 pounds.
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