Samantha Bee Is Here to Remind Jeff Sessions Why We Don’t Need Another War on Drugs – Slate Magazine (blog)

Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the War on Drugs, but Samantha Bee is not having it. The Full Frontal host spend two-thirds of Wednesdays show attacking attorney general Jeff Sessions opposition to criminal justice reform, one of the few areas that the left and right can agree on, and his Justice Department's reboot of the War on Drugs. (Like most reboots, its bad.) Bee took a deep dive to explain why the first War on Drugs was such a disaster and set about proving that Jeff Sessions one-handcuff-fits-all policy is not the answer to the opioid epidemic.

To further drive the point home, Full Frontal thenalso exposed just how unreliable drug field test kits are, dramatizing two real-world Texas cases in which police pulled over vehicles and then misidentified banal substances like cat litter as illegal substances. Former Houston prosecutor Inger Chandler explains that those tests are widely accepted as evidence in court, despite giving false positives on everything from donut glaze to air. But as Full Frontals segment demonstrates, those false positives can force defendants into taking plea bargains despite a lack of actual evidenceand black defendants are disproportionately affected.

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Samantha Bee Is Here to Remind Jeff Sessions Why We Don't Need Another War on Drugs - Slate Magazine (blog)