Five Essential Things We Must Do to Stop America’s Idiotic War on Drugs | DrugReporter | AlterNet

This is a time to put big ideas on the table. We have to learn how to coexist with drugs. They aren’t going anywhere.

“The U.S. has less than five percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the world’s prison population, incarcerating more of its citizens per capita than any other country in the world. We lock up more people on drug charges than Western Europe locks up for EVERYTHING and they have 100 million more people than we do….