Drug war not only unwinnable, also corrupting our justice system.

[DirkGently]

2. There's a lot of commerce tied up marginalizing large groups of people.

Locking people up is now a private business interest. Those companies lobby against any kind of reasonable laws lowering sentencing requirements or lessening enforcement.

Spying on people in order to lock them up is perhaps even a bigger private business interest. Forbes wrote about the "security boom" or some such a while back.

It's another upward funnel of resources. We could easily spend billions less tracking, arresting, and imprisoning people. There'd be more money for the common good -- education, infrastructure, social safety nets.

But the common good doesn't stroke enough campaign checks, apparently.

I do think people are catching on and pushing back, here and there.