I agree that the executive should not be changing laws, and that this does seem like another example of this administration thumbing its nose at any law that doesn’t fit their agenda. I guess I was supporting some aspects of the concept, not the means of achieving it.
In many cases, these ‘unjust’ sentences for first-time drug offenses are the only legal way to put a lawbreaker away. When the law can’t prove the other offenses, they use this to get a bad apple off the streets for a time.