“No telling how many lives were ruined or ended by this ‘nonviolent’ enterprise.”
The US government has no right to lock up anyone for cocaine as long as the CIA and Bush/Clinton cabal members walk around free, despite moving tons of cocaine through Mena Arkansas.
Seriously. It’s beyond doubt that it happened. It’s a head shaker that the US govt prosecutes people.
See also, total explosion of poppy cultivation after we invaded Afghanistan and the related opioid tidal wave.
I do not disagree with you!
That said, then let’s get everyone (within reason) out breathing free. And not just those who happened to be lucky enough to have an advocate in the White House.