Prison sentences for dealing hard drugs should be in line with prison sentences for murder, otherwise the implication is that the lives of drug users are much less valuable than the lives of regular people.
In much the same sense as people who sell cigarettes do; perhaps we should, therefore, have life without parole for convenience store clerks.
Fourth stage cancer patients are now having a hard time getting them. Chronic pain patients that have been stable for decades are being heartlessly dropped by doctors that now fear the DEA. We are turning our backs as a society on the most vulnerable among us.
As if the US government agencies would ever let that happen. They seem to favor a "shock 'em straight" approach that's utterly ineffective.