ties enforced by the government. People have been arrested for marijuana alone, which doesn’t include other illegal drugs. Most of these people imprisoned are non-violent drug offenders, who get longer sentences than most violent offenders.The taxpayers are spending thousands of dollars on the support of each prisoner each year. Most of the drug offenders in prison are low-income people who were trying to support their family the only way they knew how, selling drugs. For the cost of sentencing a drug offender or abuser, we could give the offender one year in prison, one year of residential drug treatment, and three years of supervised probation and outpatient drug treatment.. The laws that regulate drug controls are too strict, and affect everyone, not just the user. We should reconsider prohibition on drugs that are considered to be dangerous. . Sure the drugs most harmful one to our health should be controlled on some level. But the truth is the war on drugs is failing and until there are some provisions made it will continue to fail. Past legislation to control drug use has failed miserably over the years and new legislation will do the same. Many accuse the war on drugs for racial profiling, violation of privacy and civil rights, and raising the prison population with innocent people. The war on drugs is clearly affecting people in a big way, which leaves a hypothetical question: how long will America suffer before something is done? Either side seems to back down which makes the war on drugs a real one. We all must understand that something has to be done. There are many groups whose main attempt is it eliminates these laws. Whether or not they are on the right track in solving the problem makes their intentions invalid. Harsh laws and the treat of jail will not stop drug abuse. We learned this from History. When the Prohibition law was passed in 1920, innocent people suffered, organized crime grew, government off...
