[Daniel_Newby]

This I don't understand.

Keeping the prisons full simply means arresting people for behavioral mopery instead of pharmaceutical mopery. As long as the public supports a high incarceration rate, the prison guards unions have a license to print money.

And police departments and officers should likewise dislike the War on Drugs. It takes low staffing levels to investigate whether people have crack in their pockets. Doing, you know, actual investigations of crimes requires considerably higher staffing, plus the toys are way cooler.