But drug crimes are victimless crimes, right? Can you imagine society when the drug crime convicts are released early?
#13 That would be California. Jerry Brown released 40,000+ and I suspect the new gov will continue.
You don't have to imagine it. Just move to California and enjoy it.
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
In 2014, California voters freed about 13,500 low-level offenders from crowded prisons and jails. But many ex-inmates have traded incarceration for a cycle of homelessness, drug abuse and petty crime.
December 14, 2016, The Desert Sun.
“[Drugs] controlled him. They took him over, and that is all he cared about. He would do anything he had to do to get high,” Elvis Byrd said.”
Pity he couldn’t just wash some windows and head over to the drug store and buy some for the few dollars he just earned. Because they’re illegal. The drug prohibition is at least as culpable as the drugs are. Note that the Valentine’s Day massacre happened when alcohol was prohibited - do you blame that particular crime on booze, or can you at least see that it was brought by Prohibition?