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A Look at Human, Health and Incarceration Costs of Warring Against Drugs
By jjie.org
Published: 05/27/2013

So much of today’s jail and prison population is made up of people, many of them young, arrested on drug offenses. And many of those are addicts – diagnosed or not – or so heavily into narcotics that they are considered mentally ill or on the verge of becoming so.

In the decades-long war on drugs, some arrests are quite noted, including of cartel or gang bosses whose arrests uncovers a roadmap to violent crime rings. Others, some groups would argue, are plain nonsense – especially busts for minor pot smoking.

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