The war on drugs is a civil rights issue, a personal freedom issue, and an economic cost issue. It has a tremendous impact on lower income and minority communities, overfills our court rooms and prisons with falsely labeled criminals, whose costs are passed down to us, and severely limits their ability to become a productive member of society.
Why is this important?
The war on drugs ruins the lives of millions of nonviolent drug offenders every day. It disproportionately affects lower income and minority communities, stigmatizes drug users as criminals, ruins their employment chances upon reentering society and forces the cost of the system to maintain these people on the rest of society.
