Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
I still think it's important that more is done to combat the drug epidemic - imprisoning everybody is clearly not the answer, but allowing the epidemic to get worse isn't either.<p>> And as the overdose crisis continues, it is ever more<p>> apparent to a growing swath of the country that<p>> threatening to jail drug users doesn’t reduce drug-related<p>> death rates or help families struggling to save their<p>> loved ones. Instead, it disproportionately hurts Black<p>> communities.<p>These drug infected communities still have serious problems, the Black community for example is far from out of the woods. Drug addiction needs to be recognized as a disease.<p>Given how much the US has been willing to spend on their war on drugs, I think they could better spend this money giving free help. (Hell, it could even be the start to a free healthcare program.)