Where I live 3 strikes doesn't apply unless the first two are violent crimes, so a change in the drug laws won't affect the number of those people incarcerated.

Where I live 3 strikes doesn't apply unless the first two are violent crimes, so a change in the drug laws won't affect the number of those people incarcerated. People who have already been convicted of two violent crimes and are now charged with a third felony are slow learners that probably belong in jail for 25 years. But there are a whole lot of people in the pen for selling relatively small amounts of drugs. I don't see the government passing new laws to replace them if drug laws were repealed.