This is a good sign.

To add to this trend of pulling back from the brink most states as well as the federal government are using the budget problems as an opportunity to look at massive prison reforms and ending mandatory sentencing.

There's just no room for everybody to be crazy anymore.

Whether it's expelling a child for drawing a gun or locking up some pot head for 5 years.

It's just sad that all of those who have suffered under the reign of ignorance and superstition, this modern dark age, will still have to live with the scars of mob stupidity all over their bodies.

Society can't erase the scars of the whips. Which begs the question, why is society so quick to whip in the first place?

When I was in school, I was expected to have pencils, pens, paper, and a pen knife. A pen knife was just as much a tool as anything else. It was actually on the "things to have before starting school" list. And the town I live in is not some backwoods redneck village.

But under the current "No Tolerance" a.k.a. "No Sense" rules, my son (same city that I went to school in) got suspended for carrying a pen knife to school. 1.5 inch blade. He forgot it was in his pocket and he took it to the office to have them hold it for him, and he got suspended!

Fortunately the leadership at his school knows he's not a troublemaker, but they were hamstrung by this draconic policy to let it slide. I'm glad that it looks like common sense may be making a comeback.

/TOA

They want to regulate allergy medicine and cough drops and do that successfully while they can't even regulate what they claim is an epidemic (marijuana, cigarettes).

Just leave those kids smoking on school grounds while you pursue the distributors of advil and halls. Great policy.

Ron Paul needs to be elected already and put an end to the war on drugs. The most pointless, costly, life threatening, job securing mess in the world.