Reply #1: The insanity of the war on drugs continues to cost Americans

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Tax payer dollars, destruction of families (being thrown in prison destroys a family as much or more than drug addiction).

Drug Policy Alliance.

The only people benefiting from the war on drugs are prison workers, the politicians who somehow continue to get votes by saying they are against drugs, and law enforcement officials who continue to get bigger budgets and more resources thrown at them. Did we learn nothing from prohibition? Why can't the government understand the simple rules of supply and demand? Education and treatment are the obvious answers, not incarceration.