The problem there is that accepting the current regime of mass incarceration ends up ruining the lives of countless innocent people who didn’t do any harm to anyone.
And it really isn’t effective. You can get any drug anywhere still. Usage hasn’t gone down over time. Same thing happened with alcohol during Prohibition - human nature has not changed, and can’t be forced to change with guns and prisons. The incarceration regime just does more damage without helping anyone.
And it’s ghastly expensive, and it empowers the government for when someone like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is calling the shots to do a lot of damage. Something like Fast and Furious couldn’t exist in a non-prohibition environment; the cartels wouldn’t exist without a black market of that size.
Nobody is helped by throwing people in prison. They are just breeding grounds where people in there for the essentially political crime of doing drugs learn to be real criminals.
“The problem there is that accepting the current regime of mass incarceration”
Maybe you didn’t read my post. I don’t agree with mass incarceration.