[tosseraccount]

The majority of the population has used drugs illegaly. You're saying "we aren't in control of ourselves" ? Most folks can handle a joint or an oxy or an underage brewski.

Abuse should be treated as a medical problem, not a criminal problem. We need to take the cops and lawyers and the prison industry out of fixing it.

Implementing the drug laws in practice targets the poor and minorities.

[wildmusings]

People illegally selling hard drugs should go to jail. As for the rest of the War on Drugs' imprisonment policy, I'll agree that it's counterproductive and harmful.

[oxide]

I respectfully disagree. People who sell drugs are by and large non-violent offenders.

American prisons would have plenty more room to keep pedophiles in prison and off probation if the cells weren't packed wall to wall with non-violent drug offenders.