The first thing, obviously, with respect to methamphetamine is the rescheduling to schedule I from schedule III, which greatly increases the penalties. That's in clause 6. The aggravating factors do aim at the commerce--I guess that's the best way to put it. I use that term because it's what they are currently, in many ways, but now it kicks into minimum terms of imprisonment. We're talking about the benefit of a criminal organization using a weapon, threatening to use violence.
Then we have others that affect more the social problem and trying to keep youth away from this thing. There are the ones about being near a school, as well, and of course using a person under 18 years of age to do that. Those are triggering factors, and they address what we understand from the people in the field to be serious issues with respect to the way drug dealers are carrying out their business, if I can put it that way.
I would point out again that there have been some references to eliminating judicial discretion. That is not done, of course. What we're doing is establishing a minimum. The judge still has discretion and presumably will within the somewhat narrower range. You know, the two years to life, for example, will decide just how serious this person's past record is, how violent the activity was, and if there's more than one aggravating factor. Presumably that person will get more than the strict minimum. So that's basically how this bill approaches it.