Liberty betrayed: boomers won't confront ugly drug war legacy

"The willingness to incarcerate large numbers of people for minor drug offenses is the shame of the baby-boom generation. A generation of young people in the '60s and early '70s experimented with drugs and for the most part did so with impunity. Many powerful and successful women and men in our society experimented with drugs in their youth. But their careers were not derailed; their families were not torn apart. Sadly, they are now willing to ignore the fact that another generation of women and men are being incarcerated in appalling numbers for drug-related crimes." "War on Drugs: Time for Boomers to Fess Up" Philadelphia Daily News