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JOIN US IN DC: LibertyCon unites the people who are redefining the pro-liberty movement. For more info, visit www.libertycon.com Looking to bring some company? Invite your Facebook friends to LibertyCon. For more info, visit https://bit.ly/2S1UWML The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies drugs according to their properties and the level of regulation that should be applied to them. In this clip from Learn Liberty’s live interview with Robby Soave of Reason, Evan and Robby discuss the impact of the DEA’s classification schedule on Americans. LEARN MORE: 3 Absurd Reasons for Banning Drugs (video): Steve Davies explains absurd reasons governments have used to justify banning drugs (link) 2016 Presidential Election: The War on Drugs (video): Don Boudreaux outlines the different sides of the debate over the drug war (link) War on Drugs: Why Is Marijuana Legal in Some States and Not Others? (video): This video explains why having different drug laws in different states could be a good thing (link) TRANSCRIPT: Evan Host: The DEA schedules drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, and that has a huge impact on things like sentencing, whether a drug's illegal, how illegal it is, what happens to people who use it. People have been arguing forever that marijuana should not be a Schedule 1 drug, because Schedule 1 implies no medical value at all. It's just bad. That's just insane when over 20 states have medical marijuana on the books. Clearly there's a disconnect between the feds and the states. Recently, a drug known as Kratom, I don't know much about this, was made into a Schedule 1 drug. A lot of people say it's a safer alternative than some of the very strong opiates out there that are legally prescribed and FDA approved. What do you think about scheduling laws, the DEA's move to make Kratom Schedule 1? Do you have any recommendations on how to navigate that minefield? Robby Soave: Yeah, I don't know anything about that drug in particular. I would say that obviously the DEA is just behind the times on this. They're not following the current medical understanding of it. Of course, there are medical properties associated with marijuana. For sentencing in general, the big problem to me ... This gets into the mandatory minimum sentencing as well, that the government has set it so that if you find that the person committed this crime, they have to be sentenced to this. We can't apply leniency. We can't say, "Well, maybe they were actually only the girlfriend of the person who was doing it, or maybe they have no violent past, or maybe it was some mistake." Evan (Host): You can't allow the circumstances to influence it, even though that's the whole point of going to trial in the first place, is to get the facts out there and allow the circumstances to guide what happens. Robby Soave: Right, and the biggest problem with that then is ... So because the sentence you will get if you're found guilty is so absurd, the person accused of the crime has to plead guilty and get a plea deal. They can't risk going to trial, so they're deprived of the opportunity to prove their innocence at all, because the risk is too great. The court system shouldn't work like that. That's not what we, with enlightenment, classically liberal, western civilization understanding of how the court system should function. You deserve due process. You deserve this opportunity to prove that you're innocent before a panel of your peers, and the sentencing guidelines, they obfuscate all that.