Word: frankness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Frank also attacked the system of drug-enforcement as racially-biased, saying that the mandatory minimum guidelines had stiffer sentences for drugs often, according to Frank, used by minorities...
According to Frank, the illegality of medical marijuana use in many states represents an "extraordinary" imposition on the doctor's prerogative to prescribe appropriate medicine...
...second part of his lecture, Frank proposed a series of possible solutions, including ending jail terms for use or small scale transactions of marijuana, legalizing medical marijuana, making the interdiction of drugs a lower priority for police and ending mandatory minimum sentences...
...Frank became the first openly gay U. S. representative when he announced his homosexuality in 1987. A 20-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, he has been a fixture in Boston and Massachusetts politics since...
...Frank was introduced by Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, the director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, who termed him a "voice of reason" on issues including military spending, Israel and gay rights...