Drug Czar Acknowledges Prison Not The Answer
The Drug Czar’s blog trumpets the effectiveness of Drug Court programs for felony level controlled substance defendants:
Treatment instead of Jail: How Drug Courts Save Lives: Drug courts save lives. They rescue non-violent drug offenders from incarceration and a cycle of crime by providing them with court-supervised drug treatment.
So, I assume they’ll be jumping on the decriminalization bandwagon anytime now…
