The supposed war on drugs is a joke sending people to prison helps no one except the shareholders of prison industry's and of course all the lawyers who have a never ending income stream  if we had geared our resources towards treatment instead of punishment the drug problem would be no more than a footnote instead of a blight the ILLEGAL drug trade is the problem without it their would be not cartels  no gangs and very little crime you only need look at country's like Sweden where programs where users can get their drugs from a clean medical facility not only is drug related crime almost non existent but use dropped considerably Blackly is  ridiculous equating  legal drug use with  legalizing murder rape and crimes against children the difference being self abuse vs abusing others of course the user becomes the one who gets abused by the police /court system sounds like a man who wants to become a lobbyist for the private prison system look at Swedens  approach look at our failures