Leveraging justice system to reduce drug use

At the heart of drug legalization is the conviction that the top priority of drug reform is to get the criminal justice system out of drug policy because our prisons are full of innocent drug users, particularly marijuana users, caught up in the failed “War on Drugs.” In this view, drug legalization will empty our prisons and yield big financial savings. The truth is that very few of the many drug users in prison are there for drug possession. They are in prison because they committed serious crimes.
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