War on Drugs is a 35 Year Failure
Despite recent Marijuana Law Reform.
“The war on drugs is a 35 year failure, not only in Alabama, but across the country,” said Gabriel Sayegh, director of DPA’s State Organizing and Policy Project. “We lock people up for low-level drug use and addiction, and what has that gotten us? We now have the biggest prison and jail population in the entire world even though drug treatment and education are cheaper and more effective than incarceration. We need to approach drug policies through a public health framework, because as the prison crisis in Alabama shows, trying to jail our way out of this problem is simply ridiculous.”