Since 1980, the number of Americans in jail on drug convictions has risen fourteen HUNDRED percent.

Isn't that just swell?

Whuddaya think that costs us, to keep these people in prison? Whudda ya think we could do with that money?

By the way, do you think we treat any of these people in any meaningful way? Oh sure, we send 'em in for a few days to detox. Or for two weeks for a first offense? But very soon, if they relapse just once (in a disease that has a near 100% relapse rate) they usually get to be convicted felons, making the system as much an impediment to their recovery as the drugs are.

And why do they do drugs in the first place? We doing anything about that?

Nah, let's just lock the vermin up and throw away the key. America - land of the vengeful.








Thank you Jimmy Carter for being a man I can genuinely admire and for whose presence I can be grateful.








Source of the statistic in the thread title: CBS Evening News at about 00:25

that's why

But I get your point. *Some*body is getting rich because of this.

14 are in jail for a drug conviction in 2011. End the War on Drugs, especially the War on Pot.