Word: using
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...termed America's efforts to combat drug use and trade wasteful, intrusive and damaging to individuals and communities. He attacked conservatives for continuing the fight while abandoning programs like welfare for their inefficiency...
Frank also attacked the "harsh" penalties associated with the "victimless crime" of drug use and the "corrosive effect" on law enforcement, which, without a victim's assistance, often must resort to more intrusive measures...
...said mandatory minimum sentencing has chilled the ability of judges to use their discretion to fashion appropriate, individually-sensitive decisions...
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...