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I don't think the cost savings angle gets mentioned enough.

If you put people in jail for using drugs, everyone else is paying for that through taxation.

If they are working, then they are paying taxes. Even in areas with chronic unemployment (and we need to have a while 'nother conversation about economic inequality), a good percentage might still be working if not in jail.

So that is a double whammy to the tax payers who are paying for the War on Drugs.