What Jindal and most people do not understand is that the possession charge is easiest to prove and convict with. And why was the user caught in the first place?
They were committing assualt, burglary, theft, or a hundred other felonies. While holding.
Rather than waste precious money and court time in proving the more serious charges; it’s easy and convenient to have the perp plead to the drug charges and send him to prison.
So. To say that whatever percent of the prison population is there on drug charges alone is not accurate.
This is absolutely correct, but also not a very good defense. I don’t want thieves in jail for pot possession, I want them in jail for stealing. The plea bargain system distorts justice in a lot of ways, and this is one of the worse.