Criminalization of drugs feeds the private prison industry, where the real addiction is to profits.

"The new Portuguese law has also had a striking effect on the size of the country’s prison population. The number of inmates serving time for drug offenses fell by more than half, and today they make up only 21 percent of those incarcerated. A similar reduction in the United States would free 260,000 people — the equivalent of letting the entire population of Buffalo out of jail."

The War on Drugs is Bullshit

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