I strongly agree. I'm as anti-drug as it gets, but locking up non-violent drug users with rapists and murderers doesn't make sense. If our goal is to help drug

I strongly agree. I'm as anti-drug as it gets, but locking up non-violent drug users with rapists and murderers doesn't make sense. If our goal is to help drug addicts get clean, prison is a terrible strategy. There's a kind of despair spiral that kicks in for some addicts. Life isn't going well, so they turn to drugs to ease the pain. Then they get arrested, sent to prison, and get labelled as a felon. Now they can't get a job or have a stable living arrangement and they turn back to drugs to get through the despair. For these people, we need to break the cycle if we're ever going to help them get clean. Making their lives worse will only further entrap them.