A statewide monitoring system will track how well they work. Instead of the usual skimpy funding that ensures rehabilitation programs will fall short, this effort has enough money to treat most offenders, if not all. Backers of these drug policy reforms will be working to ensure that they are effective, and they will be looking to export these initiatives to other states. The drug policy reform effort is creating unlikely allies. In Utah, for example, liberals backed the crackdown on property seizure abuses because they violate civil rights.
Conservatives back the measure because it protects individual property rights.
Arizona already had chosen treatment and rehabilitation over incarceration, and like Utah, it is one of our most conservative states. Support for changing the country's approach to drug control is also coming from the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights organizations because of the racial disparities in the drug war. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws have sent the black prison population soaring with low-level offenders. The low-level street dealers have no one to snitch on. They're doing the time.