I can't find this data for CA but here's my guesstimate: The web tells me there are approximately 750,000 drug possession-only arrests in the US each year. Th

I can't find this data for CA but here's my guesstimate: The web tells me there are approximately 750,000 drug possession-only arrests in the US each year. The web also tells me that psychedelic arrests make up an estimated 2-3% of that. Of those arrested, about 33% seem to do at least some time as a result, but usually months not years. Those are national figures, based mostly on FBI claims, so hard to say about CA but if CA is at all typical, here's how that would look. Maybe 600-1,000 psychedelic possession defendants doing time each year. Let's assume about $8K for each of those doing time (assuming short, like 2 months) and $2K for the rest that end up in court but not in jail and you get over a million dollars a year prosecuting people who do no harm and whose use of the substance otherwise has no cost on taxpayers (except maybe the occasional uninusured ER visit). Perhaps not a huge savings, but also, IMO, a hugely wasteful spend that should come to an end that will have the more important benefit of not overturning the lives of thousands of people for no good goddamn reason other than purely puritanical bullshit we should have abandoned a long time ago.