Drug Crimes, Drug Trafficking, VUCSA
The government has amassed battalions of law enforcement personnel whose sole purpose is to pursue, arrest, and prosecute violators of the nation’s drug laws. Those laws have become more and more severe, with offenders frequently receiving sentences with very long mandatory minimum prison terms. The severity has also extended to drug forfeiture laws, which the government uses to seize bank accounts, houses, cars, boats and other property, even when it cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has been committed.