One can only hope that for the coming decades (not years) that those who put such policies in place (and those who continue to enforce them) will be rotting in

One can only hope that for the coming decades (not years) that those who put such policies in place (and those who continue to enforce them) will be rotting in the ground, and more forward-thinking people will begin to realize the irreversible damage the War on Drugs has caused (and continues to cause), and start to undo such shit policies. Hopefully that wasn't too much of a run-on sentence.