Hillary Clinton, the Drug War and Drug Treatment
Kudos to Hillary Clinton for acknowledging that "our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade."
That's exactly right and it's way past time for the U.S. to make a serious effort to curb that demand instead of spending billions on incarcerating drug offenders.
Pew's recent study--"One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections"--provides a vivid picture of just how little we do to curb demand for drugs. [More...]
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