A lot of drug busts are used merely to violate the perp’s parole on another matter, so it is disinginuous to say this total number of people are behind bars just for drugs.
Liberals are known for axe grinding, not logic. Their attempts at logical thinking are just rationalizing, decide what conclusion you wish to draw from the facts and then discard anything that challenges that conclusion in any way, then insist that anyone who points out your errors is too dumb to understand your brilliant thinking. Anyone who says that you should begin again from the starting point and examine your basic premises is probably a RAAAACCCIIIISSSTTT!